A Community Discussion: Transgender History, Activism, and Today Thursday, October 20, 7-9 PM Patrick’s Cabaret (3010 Minnehaha Ave S at E Lake St) Admission is free We, the genderBLUR collective, invite you to participate in “Transgender History, Activism, and Today,” a community discussion with Susan Stryker, transgender historian and filmmaker of the newly released documentary, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. Screaming Queens tells the little known story of the 1966 riot in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, when transgender prostitutes and gay hustlers banded together for the first time in U.S. history to fight back against police harassment, three years before the more famous 1969 Stonewall riot in New York. This unheralded event helped kick off a new movement for human rights. Susan will begin the community discussion by talking about her film, the historical significance of this riot, and the cultural climate in San Francisco that led up to this event. Her talk will be followed by a Town Hall style meeting among a variety of Twin Cities activist organizations and individuals about the current state of activism and organizing in our various communities. We hope this discussion will spark more dialogue and collaboration in the future. ADDITIONAL LOCAL EVENTS WITH SUSAN STRYKER: (De)Subjugated Knowledges: The Recent Emergence of Transgender Studies a talk by Susan Stryker Susan Stryker, internationally recognized transgender studies scholar and co-editor of the forthcoming Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge 2006), discusses the intellectual history and political epistemology of her field's emergence in the 1990s. Friday, October 21, 2005 3:30 ­ 5:00 p.m. President’s Room Coffman Memorial Union, 3rd floor University of Minnesota **************************** Twin Cities Premiere: SCREAMING QUEENS: THE RIOT AT COMPTON'S CAFETERIA Directed by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker Screening followed by q&a w/ co-director Susan Stryker Friday, October 21, 2005 7:30 p.m. Hubert H. Humphrey Auditorium 301 19th Ave. South University of Minnesota Screaming Queens recovers the lost history of a significant but little-known event--a 1966 riot at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, when drag queens and teenage hustlers first banded together to fight back against police harassment, three years before the more famous gay riots at New York's Stonewall Inn. The film uses first-person interviews, archival footage, voice-over narration, and period music to place the story of the Compton's Cafeteria riot in broader historical contexts--the civil rights movement, the war in Viet Nam, urban renewal and redevelopment polices, and the rise of sexual liberation politics. Susan Stryker, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized transgender studies scholar, and former Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. Stryker is the the co-author of Gay By the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, contributing editor of the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, author of Queer Pulp: Perverse Passion in the Golden Age of the Paperback, and co-editor of the Transgender Studies Reader, forthcoming from Routledge in 2006. ********************************** These events are sponsored by the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, Steven Schochet Center for GLBT Studies, and the Department of Women’s Studies and supported by GLBT Programs Office, College of Liberal Arts, Department of American Studies, Department of English, genderBLUR, and the Comparative Women’s History Workshop.