Mayor Lurie Signs Legislation Expanding Landmark at Site of Historic Compton's Cafeteria Riot
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie signed legislation on October 30 expanding the landmark designation at the site of the Compton's Cafeteria riot to the entire building at 101 Taylor Street, at Turk and Taylor, in San Francisco, California. The period of significance was also broadened from a single year to roughly a decade, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
The legislation was authored by Supervisor Bilal Mahmood. In 2022 the city designated the intersection and the building's exterior as a local landmark, and in 2025 the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Under the expansion, the whole building's height, shape, ornaments, roofline, facade, stucco, storefront and entrance are covered by preservation requirements.
In 1966, transgender women at the cafeteria resisted a police raid at the site, three years before New York's Stonewall uprising, an event regarded as a milestone of the transgender rights movement. The building stands in the Tenderloin, home to the nation's first transgender historic district.
City officials said the expanded designation will help preserve this civil-rights history in full and support future commemorative and educational uses of the site.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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