RAD Staff DEI presents: Screaming Queens Film Screening & Panel Discussion
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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria RSVP to attend in-person
About the film
Emmy Award-winning 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 riot at New York's Stonewall Inn. Screaming Queens introduces viewers to street queens, cops, and activist civil rights ministers who recall the riot and paint a vivid portrait of the wild transgender scene in 1960s San Francisco. Integrating the riot's story into the broader fabric of American life, the documentary connects the event to urban renewal, anti-war activism, civil rights, and sexual liberation. With enticing archival footage and period music, this unknown story is dramatically brought back to life. View Trailer
After light refreshments and finger sandwiches, we will introduce the film screening, and then we will have a filmmaker and community panel with Co-Director Susan Stryker, Ph.D., Community Activist Cecilia Chung, and Transgender District Representative Gabby Burgos-Colón.
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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria RSVP to attend in-person
About the film
Emmy Award-winning 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 riot at New York's Stonewall Inn. Screaming Queens introduces viewers to street queens, cops, and activist civil rights ministers who recall the riot and paint a vivid portrait of the wild transgender scene in 1960s San Francisco. Integrating the riot's story into the broader fabric of American life, the documentary connects the event to urban renewal, anti-war activism, civil rights, and sexual liberation. With enticing archival footage and period music, this unknown story is dramatically brought back to life. View Trailer
After light refreshments and finger sandwiches, we will introduce the film screening, and then we will have a filmmaker and community panel with Co-Director Susan Stryker, Ph.D., Community Activist Cecilia Chung, and Transgender District Representative Gabby Burgos-Colón.
Speakers
Susan Stryker, PhD will join the faculty in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California in 2024. She is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, co-editor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies readers, and was founding executive co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. A collection of her essays, When Monsters Speak, edited by McKenzie Wark, will be published next year by Duke University Press.
Cecilia Chung is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and Evaluation at the Transgender Law Center, a Health Commissioner of San Francisco, and an internationally recognized civil rights leader who advocates for HIV/AIDS awareness and care, LGBT equality, and social justice. An immigrant from Hong Kong, Cecilia has lived in San Francisco for almost 40 years where she has worked locally and internationally to advance equality and justice. During that time, she has broken ground in a number of ways including: being the first transgender woman and first Asian to be elected to lead the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration; the first transgender woman and first person living openly with HIV to Chair the San Francisco Human Rights Commission; and, an architect of the nation’s most ambitious publicly funded program addressing economic justice within the transgender community. Her community service spans over three decades.
In 2004, as a founding producer of Trans March, she helped organize one of the world’s largest annual transgender events which has since been replicated in cities across the U.S. In 2005, she became the first Deputy Director of the Transgender Law Center and is widely credited with shaping the organization’s mission and programs. In 2004, Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Cecilia to the Human Rights Commission where she served for seven years before Mayor Ed Lee appointed her to the Health Commission. In 2015, Cecilia founded Positively Trans, a network of trans people living with HIV. Cecilia’s life story was portrayed in ABC’s miniseries When We Rise.
Currently, Cecilia serves on the WHO Advisory Council of Women Living with HIV and the UNAIDS NGO PCB Delegations.
Gabby Burgos-Colón is a non-binary Latine person from San Juan, Puerto Rico. They have over a decade of experience in strategic communications across multiple industries including health, fashion/art, entertainment, and politics. Gabby pioneered transgender representation in New Orleans City Hall as the first person under the trans umbrella to serve the city council. In addition, they played a key role in research and advocacy for a resolution passed by the council to make identification changes for trans and gender non-conforming individuals more accessible in New Orleans. They continue their work to empower the LGBTQ community in the city of San Francisco at the Transgender District.