 It was followed by drag queens pouring into the streets, fighting back with their high heels and heavy bags.Compton's Cafeteria was one of a chain of cafeterias, owned by Gene Compton, in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 1970s.The Tenderloin location of Compton's at 101 Taylor Street (at Turk)—open from 1954 to 1972—was one of the few places where transgender people, especially trans women who had spent a long evening hustling , could congregate publicly in the city, because they were unwelcome in gay bars due to transphobia.