SF News Fight Over Compton's Cafeteria Site Escalates With Report of Halfway House Resident's Death, Call for Hearing An appeal over the zoning compliance of a halfway house that occupies the building where a historic LGBTQ act of resistance against police brutality took place in 1966 may have failed last week. But there is a new wrinkle in the story about that halfway house.
SF News Appeals Board Rejects Attempt to Boot Prison Operator From Historic Compton's Cafeteria Site; Activists Vow to Fight On The SF Board of Appeals heard an appeal Wednesday from a coalition of trans activists, historians, and others hoping to preserve the former Compton's Cafeteria site in the Tenderloin as a landmark of trans and queer activism.
SF News SF Trans Community Rallies to Reclaim Historic Compton's Cafeteria Site In the Tenderloin There was a rally Sunday, echoing a similar one in March, outside the site of the former Compton's Cafeteria in the Tenderloin to reclaim the site of a historic 1966 riot from its current use as a halfway house.
Arts & Entertainment Compton's Cafeteria Site Receives Two Official Historic Landmark Designations Compton’s Cafeteria, site of the 1966 trans uprising, is now the first U.S. historic site recognized for its role in the transgender movement, earning state and federal landmark status last week.
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Taylor & Turk Every week, SFist's Tenderloin correspondent brings you Urbane Studies: a column about the finer points of city lore found on individual street corners. We pick up this week at the corner of Taylor
