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Screaming queens, the riot at Compton's Cafeteria, Independent Television Service, KQED ; directors, Victor Silverman, Susan Stryker ; producers, Jack Walsh, Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman ; writers, Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman

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Screaming queens, the riot at Compton's Cafeteria, Independent Television Service, KQED ; directors, Victor Silverman, Susan Stryker ; producers, Jack Walsh, Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman ; writers, Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Screaming queens
Medium
videorecording
Responsibility statement
Independent Television Service, KQED ; directors, Victor Silverman, Susan Stryker ; producers, Jack Walsh, Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman ; writers, Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman
Runtime
57
Sub title
the riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Summary
"Screaming queens 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 neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn"--Container
Technique
live action
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Director

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