SanFrancisco – LGBTQ Experiences in US History

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018

Instagram post – Harvey Milk (person)

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to office in California. Milk ran for office in San Francisco and was elected to the Board of Supervisors. He passed a significant piece of gay rights legislation, but after less than eleven months in office, Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor, assassinated Milk. Because of his vision of a future where all people were treated equally, Milk is an unsung hero in the gay rights movement.

Photograph by Ted Sahl, Kat Fitzgerald, Patrick Phonsakwa, Lawrence McCrorey, Darryl Pelletier – http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53876020

January 31, 2018March 10, 2018

Instagram post – Compton’s Cafeteria (landmark)

#LGBTQexperiencesUSA #Riot #LGBTQ #SanFrancisco — Building with the sign “Gene Comptons.”

The 1966 riot at Compton’s, a cafeteria frequented by queer people in San Francisco in the 1960’s, holds a forgotten place in LGBTQ+ history. Like many LGBTQ+ meeting places at the time, Comton’s was frequently raided by police. One night, a transgender patron threw her coffee at an officer, inciting a riot, one of the handful of pre-Stonewall instances of resistance to police violence against queer people. The event demonstrates that important happenings are often forgotten to history when influential people are not involved.

Source: http://hoodline.com/2015/06/tenderloin-pride-remembering-the-compton-s-cafeteria-riot