2110 Summer Night Screenings presents:
“Screaming Queens: The Riot At Compton’s Cafeteria”
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Film Screening & Discussion
THURSDAY July 30th, 7pm
2110 Mackay Street
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“Screaming Queens” (Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker / 57 min / 2005) tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States — a 1966 riot in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin neighbourhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York’s Stonewall Inn.
The screening will be followed by a discussion, facilitated by Jackson Hagner.
Jackson is one of the founding members of the Solidarity ID Project, which aims to engage in popular education and advocacy surrounding issues of access and the realities of people who experience discrepancies between their official state-assigned identities and their personal identities. He works as a board member and a volunteer at the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, working on various campaigns and programming, popular education and advocacy.
For more info on the Solidarity ID Project, click here.