Anyone familiar with the political rights of the LGBTQ+ community has most likely heard of the Stonewall Riots. These protests in the summer of 1969 were part of a series of events that helped to pave the way for equal rights for this community. One of those events took place three years before Stonewall, at a diner in San Francisco. Compton’s Cafeteria was a chain of 24-hour eateries in San Francisco. In the 60s, the Tenderloin was one of the few neighborhoods where trans women and drag queens could live…
