Breonna McCree
Breonna McCree is Co-Executive Director of The Transgender District in San Francisco. She leads groundbreaking programs focused on economic empowerment, public safety, and wellness for trans and TGNC communities. With over a decade of experience in community health and advocacy, Breonna is a powerful voice for equity, healing, and trans liberation.
Susan Stryker
Stryker is the author of Transgender History, a widely used introduction to the political and cultural history of transgender communities in the United States, and co-director, with Victor Silverman, of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. The film helped recover the history of a 1966 uprising by transgender women and queer people at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin—one of the earliest documented acts of collective queer resistance to police harassment in the United States.
The Transgender District
Founded by three black trans women in 2017 as Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, The Transgender District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.
Glide Memorial
GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through our integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, we empower individuals, families and children to achieve stability and thrive.
Compton’s x Coalition
Compton’s x Coalition is a community campaign working to reclaim and protect 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco—the former site of Gene Compton’s Cafeteria and the 1966 uprising that became a landmark in transgender and queer resistance. Today, the building is operated by GEO Group, a private prison company and ICE contractor, an especially stark contradiction given the site’s history.
The Coalition is organizing to remove GEO Group from the property, prevent its continued use for incarceration, and place the site under permanent community stewardship through a Community Land Trust. Its larger vision is to transform 111 Taylor into a hub for culture, care, and belonging, centering trans, immigrant, Indigenous, and justice-impacted communities while preserving Compton’s legacy as a living site of resistance rather than simply a marker of history.
Tenderloin Museum
The Tenderloin Museum celebrates the rich history of one of San Francisco's most misunderstood neighborhoods. The 31 blocks of the Tenderloin district are the beating heart of the city peopled by immigrants and iconoclasts, artists and activists, sinners and saints. Visit the Tenderloin Museum today and encounter a kaleidoscopic American city in all its grit and glory.
Tenderloin Community Benefit District
The Tenderloin welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, experiences, and circumstances. We believe our neighbors deserve pathways and opportunities to thrive.
Screaming Queens
Screaming Queens recovers the story of the 1966 uprising at Compton’s Cafeteria, when transgender and queer residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin fought back against police harassment. The documentary helped restore this largely forgotten event—and the community surrounding it—to its place in transgender and LGBTQ+ history.
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots
Immersive theater in and about San Francisco’s Transgender District.
Mark Nassar
Mark Nassar was a writer/ producer for Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, an immersive theater production reliving the 1966 Trans uprising in San Fransisco’s Tenderloin District.
Kate Robinson
Kate Robinson is the Executive Director of the Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD) in San Francisco
Katie Conry
Katie Conry is the Executive Director of the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco