7pm ** FREE ** Susan Stryker presents Screaming Queens
Filmmaker Historian Susan Stryker on UWM campus to present her film SCREAMING QUEENS: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
a documentary by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman
Three years before the famous rioting at New York's Stonewall Inn, there was a riot at Gene Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. In that summer of 1966, for the first time in history, a group of transgender women and gay street-hustlers fought back against everyday police harassment. This act of resistance was a dramatic turning point for the transgender community, and the beginning of a new human rights struggle that continues to this very day.
Mixing archival footage, printed documents, and recent interviews with participants from all corners of the action, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman's engaging and vital documentary SCREAMING QUEENS depicts a marginalized community's dramatic and resonant act of resistance and introduces the viewer to an overlooked chapter in the history of civil rights.
Presented by the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
For more information on SCREAMING QUEENS: www.screamingqueensmovie.com
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ART BAR EVENT
Second Interdepartmental Happy Hour
WHERE:
ART BAR
722 East Burleigh Street
WHEN:
March 28th, 2007 from 6-10p.m.
2 for one drink specials
Live music by the Milwaukee Songwriting alliance 8:00 p.m.
WHY:
Because you've always wondered how the other half of the academic community lives. Is their grass greener, come see for yourself.
