Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria 2

Vintage footage of a transgender woman complaining how hard it is to keep a job.

Part of the 2005 documentary film "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," directed by Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker, about a San Francisco transgender uprising that predated the New York transgender uprising at the Stonewall Inn.

For more on this film, go to
http://www.comptonscafeteriariot.org/ and
http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T636
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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• transgender
• transsexual
• transexual
• transwoman
• transwomen

[doobiesmoke15]

Where can I find the full documentary?

[TGvision]

@doobiesmoke15

Amazon dot com has it available on DVD-R and Instant Video.

[TGvision]

@doobiesmoke15 As of right now, amazon.com and tower.com both have it.

[CoverButton]

How FAB !

[sumanadream]

Love that girl!

[Suzie4good]

@marshamc She is not a "Queen". She is a woman, a transsexual woman.

[marshamc]

boy, i could listen to that queen talk all day; something mesmerizing about her.

[nochokin]

yes preach lady...she is tellin the truth

[videosouthend]

The footage is originally from a short movie called "Gay San Francisco." It was more recently used in a 2005 movie, Screaming Queens, about a riot at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco in 1966.

[wonderland33]

Where is the vintage footage from?