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There is an anniversary of another rebellion today, the Compton Rebellion

San Francisco’s Stonewall: The landmark transgender rights riot of 1966
Fusion Net
By David Matthews
August 15, 2015  

Today is International Transgender Awareness Day. It’s held on August 15 every year to commemorate an event in 1966, at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco, a popular hangout in the Tenderloin for members of the transgender community. After police raided the cafeteria and attempted to make several arrests, Compton’s regulars and allies protested and rioted, leading to greater recognition of transgender rights and the transgender community in general.
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Compton’s was also scene of several police raids throughout the years. One night, as police officers entered the cafe, the patrons inside decided they’d had enough. Like a similar riot at the Stonewall in New York three years later, the Compton Cafeteria Riot was also a powder-keg moment: After a cafeteria worker called the police on some unruly customers, there was an attempt to arrest one trans woman, who threw her coffee in the officer’s face. This led to a scuffle where windows were smashed and other property was damaged. The message was clear though: Enough was enough. From Queerty:

Trans people, hustlers and disenfranchised gay locals picketed the cafeteria the following night, when the restaurant’s windows were smashed again. Unlike the Stonewall riots, the situation at Compton’s was somewhat organized—many picketers were members of militant queer groups like the Street Orphans and Vanguard.

And Compton’s was not the uprising, before them was Dewey's Lunch Counter protests in 1965 in Philadelphia, and in 1959 there was the Cooper's Donuts uprising. According to Out.com

In May of 1959, a group of drag queens and hustlers fought cops in a donut shop in downtown Los Angeles, furious that LAPD officers were arresting their friends purely for legally congregating in Cooper’s Donuts, a popular gay meeting place.

Cooper’s was located on Main Street, the Los Angeles “gay ghetto” of the 1950s and ‘60s. In his landmark novel City of Night, novelist John Rechy describes the area as teeming with hustlers and transvestites, who were routinely arrested and locked up by the LAPD just for being seen together on the street or in a raided bar.

Rechy was in fact one of three people the police tried to arrest that night in May of 1959, when the patrons of Cooper’s had had enough. A large group of transgendered women and others pelted the officers with donuts, coffee, and paper plates until they were forced to retreat and return with larger numbers. Rechy managed to escape, but when the police returned a riot ensued that shut down Main Street for an entire day.

What did all these events have in common? Police harassment and checking the drag queens for three items of male clothing, just like at the Stonewall Inn.