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    FOR THE CULTURE

    Feb 12, 2019 5 minutes
    BY RAQUEL WILLIS
    PHOTOGRAPHED BY AZHA AYANNA LUCKMAN

    THREE YEARS BEFORE THE STONEWALL RIOTS LIT THE FLAME of the LGBTQ+ Movement, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot of 1966 poured the lighter fluid on the pavement. As recounted in author Susan Stryker’s 2005 documentary, Screaming Queens, the San Francisco uprising began after years of police profiling and harassment when a fed-up drag queen threw a hot cup of coffee in a police officer’s face.

    “[Gene Compton’s Cafeteria] erupted. People started throwing everything they could get their hands on at the police,” she recalls in the film. “Before it was over, a police car was destroyed, the corner newsstand was set on fire, and years of pent-up resentment boiled out into the night. It was the first known instance of collective, militant, queer resistance to police harassment in United States history.”

    While this groundbreaking moment was largely

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