The San Francisco supervisor who represents the Tenderloin has no immediate plans to initiate landmark proceedings on the building that saw an early transgender riot against police back in 1966. The demonstration at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria occurred that summer in August, now recognized by city officials as Transgender History Month.
Today, the building at 111 Taylor Street is owned by Florida-based private prison operator GEO Group . It has run a reentry facility for people released from incarceration out of the site for 36 years.
On the building’s ground floor was the 24-hour diner where queer and transgender San Franciscans holed up when they had nowhere else to go. Compton’s was where one night in August 1966 – the exact date is lost to time – a drag queen reportedly threw a cup of h