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Fifty-six years ago, an angry drag queen in Compton’s Cafeteria, a 24-hour diner in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, threw a cup of hot coffee in the face of a police officer as he tried to arrest her without a warrant.
Fifty-six years ago, an angry drag queen in Compton’s Cafeteria, a 24-hour diner in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, threw a cup of hot coffee in the face of a police officer as he tried to arrest her without a warrant.