... their use of it given its implicit moralization of both the sex trade and urban space. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 red-light district prostitution Progressive Era tenderloin district In 1920, the United States Public...

... of the program for the first Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, held in 1972, I found a description of a 1966 riot in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, in which drag queens and gay hustlers banded together at a popular late-night hangout called Gene Compton’s Cafeteria to fight back against police...

...- ing in the GLBTHS archive a run of Vanguard Magazine (1966 to 1969), a youth-­ produced journal chronicling life on the streets and activism in the Tenderloin — the city’s vice district and a crucible of 1960s homophile organizing. Young adults in the 1960s flocked to San Francisco because of its...

... the guerrillero, not the assassin.” Joey Plaster introduces us to homeless GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender)13 youth in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, who in 2011 armed themselves with brooms and ventured into city streets. Demonstrators deliberately called into question the city’s...

.... These low-income housing districts quickly became the city’s first slums, and the landlord’s rent was less assured. The expanding prostitute population, which grew with the city at a steady rate, provided high-paying stable renters, and the vice trade spread from the waterfront to the poor...

... of gay and lesbian subjectivities in their critiques of the homonormative. She also takes us back to the historic 1966 riot in San Fran- cisco’s Tenderloin District, in which drag queens and gay hustlers banded together at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria “to fight back against police harassment and social...

... experts. They created guided tours of the district and its live sex shows based on the feminist tours and slideshows that had been pioneered in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Aimed at exposing the brutality of the sex trade and reinterpreting sexual “fantasies” as exploitative commerce, they became...

... the colonizers for. They invited Bay-area residents to join them, and when news that a local restaurant would cater the event spread, everyone, from suburban housewives and punks from the city’s Tenderloin district to senior citizens and star-struck teenagers, arri~ed Soon after, the Indians’ cause...

... for you in society.  — Monsignor’s advice to Herculine Barbin In 1966, Gene Compton’s eatery in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district was the site of the first recorded incident of transgender resistance to police harassment.1 The Compton Cafeteria riot broke out after police assaulted a drag...

... District and the Society to Make America Safe for Homosexuals (SMASH) in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood — in light of concomitant urban research and development. Specifically, I contend that grassroots activism lying outside the orbit usually associated with property ownership is one means...