How to document and tell queer history?
Film & discussion: The Screaming Queens of Compton. The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria.
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Join us at Litteraturhuset for the screening of Susan Stryker’s documentary The Screaming Queens of Compton, followed by a panel discussion on how to document and tell queer history.
Participants: Susan Stryker, Hadley Renkin, C. Anzio Jacobs, Dan Healey and Svati Shah.
Chair: Kari Jegerstedt
Screaming Queens tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States – a 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.
See the film trailer: Screaming Queens
The event is free of charge, and open to all – welcome!
