The Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York City are well known as a historical moment when the lives of queer individual in America shifted. But three years earlier another landmark event took place, this time at Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, when a transgender woman stand up to withstand ed arrest by a police officer and inspired a new in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m of trans activism in the city. Donna Personna remembers it well — she knew the woman involved and was invited by an independent theatre director in the city to turn the riot into a piece of immersive theatre.###When we meet Donna in Jay Bedwani’s tender documentary, she is in her seventies and living comin/with regard to’concerning’regarding tably in her female identity. She hadn’t always been able to do so and didn’t wear a dress in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the first time until she was 59. Reflecting on her childhood in San Jose, where her family and minister father were central to a Baptist community, she knew that as a queer person she “had the power to destroy their lives”. This concern in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her family led to a life of repression in/with regard to’concerning’regarding fear of revealing her authentic self.###In Bedwani’s profile, Donna’s hidden identity is celebrated — she loves perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding ming in bars, lip-syncing to K. Michelle’s ‘If It Ain’t Love’ and dancing in sequinned gowns. She lives alone, but she has a community now, interacting with other trans individual in the bars and during rehearsals in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the play she writes with regards to’concerning’with respect to the Compton’s Cafeteria riot. The self-assurance the undergo and her friends give her motivate’fuel s Donna to reach out to her eodd’peculiar d family, leading to a moving sequence in which she reunites with her sister, Gloria. Donna knows that not eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone will be as accepting, but her optimism with regards to’concerning’with respect to trans individual today is deeply inspiring.