Compton's Cafeteria riot (San Francisco)
1966-08-01 — USA
In August 1966, transgender women and drag queens fought back against police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin — one of the first recorded LGBTQ+ uprisings in the US, three years before Stonewall. (The exact day is undocumented; no press coverage or police records survive, hence month precision.)