Pomona College Professor Wins $150,000 Grant, Broadcast Agreement for his Documentary 'Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria'.

AScribe Law News Service, September, 2004

Byline: Pomona College

CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," written and directed by Victor Silverman, an associate professor of history at Pomona College, and Susan Stryker, a renowned scholar of transgender history, has been awarded a $150,000 in post-production support from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and KQED Television. The ITVS grant was one of only six awarded nationally for 2004.

The documentary, which is produced by Silverman, Stryker and Emmy Award-winner Jack Walsh, tells the story of the first known act of militant transsexual resistance to social oppression. In 1966, three years before the more famous uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn, transgender street...

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