CLAGS
The Center for
Lesbian and Gay Studies
presents
Screaming
Queens:
The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
of 1966
On a hot summer night, angry drag queens rioted
against police who raided their hang-out. It happened in in 1966--three years before
Stonewall.
A film by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker.
Partial rough cut of work in progress, with lecture/discussion by Susan Stryker. Feedback welcome.
Susan Stryker is Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, and
co-editor of the Routledge Transgender Studies Reader (2004)
Tuesday, October 7, 7-9 pm
Room C202, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets
New York City
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at (212) 817-1955
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