Developers will fund the Compton's Cafeteria Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual District to quell opposition to a proposed mixed-use development in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
Antonio Pacheco reports on an agreement that clears the way for the "country’s first transgender cultural historic district," to be located in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
According to Pacheco, the Compton's Cafeteria Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (TLGB) District came about in response to neighborhood opposition to the 950 Market Street housing and hotel development, developed by Group I and designed by Handel Architects.
The deal hinges on "$300,000 paid by the developer to establish the cultural district…to preserve the architectural and social legacy of the neighborhood’s many gay bars, several of which are being demolished in conjunction with the new project."
The name of the new district pays homage to Gene Compton's Cafeteria, explains Pacheco, "the site of a two-day riot in 1966, an event that predates the Stonewall Riots in New York City by two years and is considered as the first major transgender protest in the United States."
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