Compton’s x Coalition Presses Landmark Bid for 111 Taylor to Oust Geo Group
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 19
Compton’s x Coalition Presses Landmark Bid for 111 Taylor to Oust Geo Group
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 19
Summary
111 Taylor Street, the former site of San Francisco’s 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot, is the focus of a renewed campaign to landmark the building’s interior and force out Geo Group, ICE’s biggest contractor.
The push targets Geo’s 240-bed halfway house, which has been under city investigation since July 2025 after a man was found dead near the building following detention there.
Hundreds backed the zoning appeal at public hearings last year, but the next hearing has not been rescheduled and the Board of Supervisors is in recess, slowing the effort.
Organizers link the fight to current battles over immigration detention, policing and anti-trans backlash, staging protests this summer and arguing the site should become community space or LGBTQ+ senior housing.
The campaign comes as San Francisco marks 60 years since the Compton’s uprising, which historians call a foundational act of trans resistance predating Stonewall by 3 years.