Compton's Cafeteria riot

She played a key role in constructing AIDS Garden Chicago at the site of the Belmont Rocks, ensuring it remains a queer gathering place.

We'll also hear from AC Panella, a scholar and storyteller who's preserving trans history through efforts like the Turk & Taylor project, which is reclaiming the site of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot.

And did you know there's a national monument in the works? It's in Canada.

And we'll hear from Liz Wreford, a landscape architect leading the monument's design, which will permanently recognize the lives of those impacted by what's known in her country as the LGBT Purge, a state-sanctioned persecution of civil servants.

It's not, this isn't a bond measure for the Castro.

This is for San Francisco.

We're going to learn about amazing projects like this in Chicago and another in Canada, but after the break, we'll hear about efforts to protect another landmark of LGBTQ history in San Francisco, the site of the Compton's Cafeteria riot in the Tenderloin District, and the work being done to ensure trans histories are not forgotten.

Welcome back.

The most marginalized trans folks, people of color, sex workers, they're talking about Stonewall.

They're talking about Compton's cafeteria riot.

They're talking about Cooper's donuts riot.

have always been the catalyst for riotous explosions of queer resistance.

They're talking about the major queer liberation riots that happened in the 1960s.

That includes Cooper Donuts in Los Angeles.

That includes the Compton's Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco.

And that includes Stonewall in New York City.