‘Queer’ History Film Series

‘Queer’ History Film Series is an exploration into LGBTIQA+ history, influence, politics and gaiety
throughout the ages. In partnership with Baton Rouge Pride, this series will feature a different film on the last Sunday of each month, continuing this month with Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005, Not Rated) at the Main Library at Goodwood on Sunday, January 28
at 6 p.m. “EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States – a 1966 riot in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York’s Stonewall Inn.” – Kanopy Adult topics will be discussed so we ask that no children attend and viewer discretion is advised.

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