Tenderloin Museum
Neighborhood history museum spotlighting overlooked riots, refugees, and reinvention.
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This guide to the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco starts at Compton's Cafeteria, a 24-hour diner a few blocks away, on an August night in 1966 - one of the only places where transgender women and drag queens off shift from nearby clubs could sit down without being thrown out, and where police showing up was routine. It traces why a small neighborhood museum exists at all, through the plaques on the surrounding buildings marking stories the Tenderloin refused to let disappear.
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