The Riot Before Stonewall: What Happened at Compton's Cafeteria

Most people know the name Stonewall. Almost nobody knows what happened three years earlier in a San Francisco cafeteria. In 1966 the word transgender did not exist yet. Joe and Rya follow the trail from a church basement to the local diner where queens finally stood up to the bullies. History nearly lost this story, and that is exactly why it is worth reclaiming. On the thumbnail: Nearly every photograph of Compton's Cafeteria is under copyright, so we could not use one. This thumbnail was ma...