On Sunday, May 28 from 4pm to 10pm SFTEAM (San Francisco Transgender Empowerment, Advocacy and Mentorship) will host an exciting fundraiser at the infamous Divas Club (1081 Post St. San Francisco) featuring the sensational TG Band, Lipstick Conspiracy. During this exciting event there will be a pre-release screening of the new TG documentary Screaming Queens.
The recent documentary “Screaming Queens'” by filmmakers Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman chronicles this historic time marking one of the beginnings of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) movement resistance.
Three years before the famous rioting at New York’s Stonewall Inn, a group of transgender women and gay street hustlers fought back for the first time in history against everyday police harassment. This was known as the 1966 Riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin at Turk and Taylor in San Francisco.
“It was the first time that people who were discriminated against because of their gender identity banded together to resist their oppression”, noted Stryker. ” And it had results — in the years after the riot, trans activists and allies began to make real progress in meeting the unique social and medical needs of trans people.”
SF Team is currently working with San Francisco LGBT Community Center is organizing quarterly events for the trans community.
For further information please visit:
SF Team
Diva’s SF
Lipstick Conspiracy