"Now that a private prison company is running a halfway house at the site of the famed transgender protest known as the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, trans activists are hoping to redesignate the site with another set of historical protections. While the detail had been somewhat lost in time in previous decades, it has become well-documented in recent years that the address 111 Taylor Street was the one-time site of the former Gene Compton's Cafeteria,"
"The trans community has attempted to get the prison contractor booted out, though they've been unsuccessful with that campaign thus far. The Bay Area Reporter reminds us this week that activists with the Compton's x Coalition are in the process of trying to bolster the historic landmarking of the building, which may not itself get the GEO Group removed from operating on the site, but does at least provide additional protections for the building."
111 Taylor Street was the site of Gene Compton's Cafeteria and the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot, an early Stonewall moment for the transgender rights movement. The building now operates as a for-profit reentry facility run by private prison contractor GEO Group, and a resident died there in July. Trans activists have tried to remove the contractor but have not succeeded, and are working through the Compton's x Coalition to bolster historic landmarking. The site received federal and state designations in early 2025 and a limited San Francisco designation in 2022, but most of the original cafeteria space remains unprotected and vulnerable to demolition or facade-only preservation.
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