Screaming Queens Screening

My finace is organizing a wonderful event at CSUN: a screening of the documentary Screaming Queens. Screaming Queens was made by our friend Susan Stryker. Rumour has it that Andy Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn will make an appearance. See below for details.

THE CENTER FOR SEX & GENDER RESEARCH

PRESENTS

SCREAMING QUEENS

THE MOVIE AND THE FILMMAKER

It's a hot August night in San Francisco in 1966. Compton's Cafeteria, in the seedy Tenderloin district, is hopping with its usual assortment of transgender people, young street hustlers and down-and-out regulars. When a surly cop, accustomed to manhandling the clientele, tries to arrest one of the queens for making too much noise, she throws her coffee in his face. Windows break, furniture flies, the fighting spills out onto the street. For the first time, drag queens band together to fight back. For everyone at Compton's that night, one thing was certain: things would never be the same. Screaming Queens introduces viewers to a diverse cast of former prostitutes, drag performers, police officers, ministers and neighborhood activists, all of whom played a part in the events leading up to the riot. The documentary links the riot to the larger social upheavals affecting the U.S. in the 1960s. Screaming Queens explores the reverberations of the rise of transgender activism, a story in which the riot plays a pivotal role. Writer, director, producer Susan Stryker – an internationally recognized scholar of sexuality and gender – will answer questions after the screening.

For more information about the film, you may visit
http://www.screamingqueensmovie.com

Thursday, October 5, 7:30 p.m.
Oviatt Library Presentation Room
California State University, Northridge

This event is free and open to the public. Parking at CSUN costs $4.
For more information, please call 818-677-2638

Co-sponsors: Oviatt Library, College of Humanities, Center for Ethics & Values, Departments of Asian American Studies, English, and Philosophy, Masters Program in Social Work