Useful Links
Ladies In The Streets: Before Stonewall, Transgender Uprising Changed Lives
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/05/404459634/ladies-in-the-streets-before-stonewall-transgender-uprising-changed-lives
The Trans-Led uprising before stonewall
https://latina.com/comptons-cafeteria-riot-the-trans-led-uprising-before-stonewall/
documentary: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Screaming Queens tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States--a 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.
https://www.amazon.com/Screaming-Queens-Riot-Comptons-Cafeteria/dp/B07FK3JP6P
Corresponding lesson
https://safeschoolsproject.org/lgbtq-history/lgbtq-history-august/
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/05/404459634/ladies-in-the-streets-before-stonewall-transgender-uprising-changed-lives
The Trans-Led uprising before stonewall
https://latina.com/comptons-cafeteria-riot-the-trans-led-uprising-before-stonewall/
documentary: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Screaming Queens tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States--a 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.
https://www.amazon.com/Screaming-Queens-Riot-Comptons-Cafeteria/dp/B07FK3JP6P
Corresponding lesson
https://safeschoolsproject.org/lgbtq-history/lgbtq-history-august/
Lesson
LGBTQ HISTORY THROUGH PRIMARY SOURCES: Gay Liberation
- What was Gay Liberation? How did it build on and differ from the earlier Homophile movement?
- What strategies did LGBTQ+ people use from the 1950s to 1970s to challenge homophobic and transphobic laws?
- What were the long-term impacts of these protests and of the larger gay liberation movement?