2010 Reunion!
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Melanie in Featured, Updates
It was great! Photos and updates to come! Please add your experiences here. Let me know if you have any trouble posting. Cheers! Melanie
Videos
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria clip from Frameline Distribution on Vimeo.
Dir. Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker
2005 57 min. USA
EMMY® Award-winning "Screaming Queens" tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States — a 1966 riot in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York’s Stonewall Inn.
"Screaming Queens" introduces viewers to street queens, cops and activist civil rights ministers who recall the riot and paint a vivid portrait of the wild transgender scene in 1960s San Francisco. Integrating the riot’s story into the broader fabric of American life, the documentary connects the event to urban renewal, anti-war activism, civil rights and sexual liberation. With enticing archival footage and period music, this unknown story is dramatically brought back to life.
"Screaming Queens" is a production of Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker produced in association with ITVS and KQED, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T636
Northern California EMMY® for Outstanding Achievement, Historical/Cultural Program
“If there was one film I’d want to show to my students to inspire them both to do and to make history, "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria" is it (and it clocks just under an hour!). Transgender historian and activist Susan Stryker dives into the archives and emerges with a story about the first collective militant queer resistance to police harassment, not at the Stonewall Bar in New York in 1969, but at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. It’s a story that is at the foundation of everything from glam rock to lesbian separatism, gay struggles based on civil rights activism to squatters and housing rights agitation (and therefore right for classes in everything from cinema to political theory). It’s also a story of unlikely heroes and heroines, putting passion and power at the center of an emergent queer historiography.”
- Amy Villarejo, Associate Professor in Film and Director of the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University
“Stryker and Silverman have here triumphantly intervened in queer theory and queer history with their brilliant archival work and their careful elaboration of the relations between gender, sexuality and all the other differences that structure the world differently for different individuals at different times and in different places. A truly great scholarly putting-to-use of the moving image documentary format, this tape's investigation of being something---that is, "trans"---before it was essentially possible, makes it of the utmost relevance to gender theory, queer theory and sexuality studies today. A terrific investigation of the multiplicity of power relations that surround any historical event, with fantastic use of archival materials, "Screaming Queens" is a wonderfully refreshing corrective to Stonewall-centric U.S. LGBTQ history."
- Richard Cante, Media & Cultural Studies and Program in Sexuality Studies, University of North Carolina
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PacificHS
30. Aug, 2010
PHS: 2010 Reunion!: It was great! Photos and updates to come! Please add your experiences here. Let me know if you… http://bit.ly/aojRnl
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Tajmari
30. Aug, 2010
PHS: 2010 Reunion!: It was great! Photos and updates to come! Please add your experiences here. Let me know if you… http://bit.ly/aojRnl
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jan lowell
01. Sep, 2010
I was engaged to lars for 2 years and we split up when he met erica, who i also knew..my name then was jan englund..i went t calif and married lived in italy for 25 years and israel for 10 then returned to the US.my husband robert and i were married 57 years and he died two years ago..we wrote books and films together as well as acting..i have many photos of lars and me and stills he took of me when we were together..im so sorry to hear of his death..ive always remembered him warmly as a talented, sweet and dear person..my condolences to his family..jan lowell
Gina
02. Sep, 2010
The Reunion was beyond wonderful! It is so wonderful to reconnect with my tribe of yester- year PLUS as we found out, some of us are connected in the present time thru Fairfax which was really entertaining, when we connected the dots!
If any one wants to reconnect – let me know, go to my website for contact info:
thisgirlrocks.com
Thank you Vince for convincing me to go! gina
Gina
05. Sep, 2010
THe Photos are beautiful. They capture the joy of the gathering. THANK YOU!
robin bloomgarden
05. Sep, 2010
Melanie, these first shots are a kick in the butt! I’m giddy again. Can’t wait to see what else comes in. Fantastic shot of my sister Rouanna and Bruce Hobson, BTW. Robin