#compton's tlgb district

[profeminist]

“Named after the historic Compton's Cafeteria riots in 1966 (the first known incident of collective LGBT resistance to police harassment in U.S. history), The Compton's TLGB District will encompass six blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and will cross over Market Street to include two blocks of 6th Street. The intersection of Compton's Cafeteria Way and Vikki Mar Lane (previously portions of Turk and Taylor Streets) will be a hub of services and economic opportunities for trans and gender-nonconforming communities, as well as a place to honor the community's history.

"The lower Tenderloin is one of the most important neighborhood in America for transgender history, culture, and civil rights," said Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the Tenderloin. "By creating the Compton's TLGB District we are honoring this vibrant community built by transgender people, and are sending a message to the world that trans people are welcome here." 

"San Francisco needs to do everything it can to stand our ground and be a place of sanctuary, for transgender people, and specifically trans women of color. Hopefully the Compton's TLGB District will be the start of a national movement to protect these communities and their history."

Read the full piece here

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[gaywrites]

San Francisco has announced that it is officially designating the first transgender historic district in the country: Compton's TLGB District, an area within the Tenderloin neighborhood named for its role in the historical trans-powered Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. 

"What we’ve come to know as the ‘LGBT rights movement’ began with trans women of color in the Tenderloin, and in many ways that’s where it still lives,” said Stephany Ashley, Executive Director of The St. James Infirmary and a member of the Compton District Coalition. "The Tenderloin is home to some of the earliest recorded resistances from sex workers, homeless youth, and trans and gender non-conforming people in the US, and we want to see that history, as well as that present day reality recognized, not erased by development.” [...]

Now, as the developer indicated they were willing to do last year, the Chronicle reports that Group I has agreed to pay $300,000 toward a fund to be administered by the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development to establish the district, including a transgender community center and a fund to support business and nonprofits that serve transgender people in the district.

If you read the article linked above, you’ll see that they’re still ironing out some details; developers in the area want to build high-rises that could harm preservation efforts, but it seems they’ve reached a compromise. 

This neighborhood played such a huge role in shaping the transgender rights and greater LGBTQ rights movements, and it deserves to be honored and formally recognized -- finally. 

[neutrois]

Named after the historic Compton's Cafeteria riots in 1966 (the first known incident of collective LGBT resistance to police harassment in U.S. history), The Compton's TLGB District will encompass six blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and will cross over Market Street to include two blocks of 6th Street. The intersection of Compton's Cafeteria Way and Vikki Mar Lane (previously portions of Turk and Taylor Streets) will be a hub of services and economic opportunities for trans and gender-nonconforming communities, as well as a place to honor the community's history.

[sallymolay]

7x7 writes:

Named after the historic Compton's Cafeteria riots in 1966 (the first known incident of collective LGBT resistance to police harassment in U.S. history), The Compton's TLGB District will encompass six blocks in the southeastern Tenderloin and will cross over Market Street to include two blocks of 6th Street.

The intersection of Compton's Cafeteria Way and Vikki Mar Lane (previously portions of Turk and Taylor Streets) will be a hub of services and economic opportunities for trans and gender-nonconforming communities, as well as a place to honor the community's history.

"The lower Tenderloin is one of the most important neighborhood in America for transgender history, culture, and civil rights," said Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the Tenderloin. "By creating the Compton's TLGB District we are honoring this vibrant community built by transgender people, and are sending a message to the world that trans people are welcome here."

Read the whole story!

[ilovegay2day]

San Francisco Announces Nation’s First Transgender District

San Francisco made history on Tuesday with the unveiling of the Compton’s Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (TLGB) District—the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.

[dolllikelove]

The Nation’s First Transgender District

The proposed Compton’s TLGB District in San Francisco’s lower Tenderloin would mark the area’s rich queer rights history. Read More (Via placeswire.org) http://dlvr.it/NGLYnP