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Honoring Sexual Labor
Employees at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Theater voted nearly unanimously April 4th to accept the work contract negotiated with theater management by the Exotic Dancers Union, an affiliate of Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Local 790. The contract, which covers some 30 cashiers and janitors at the theater as well as […]
Proclaiming the Humanity of Whores
It is the first conference of its kind anywhere, any time — a coming together of over 500 prostitutes and other sex workers, prostitute-friendly academics, social workers, researchers, journalists, and prostitutes’ rights advocates — under the auspices of both a state university and an organization of prostitutes — to […]
The 1997 International Congress on Prostitution
The 1997 International Congress on Prostitution, coming up March 13-16 in Van Nuys, promises to be an important milestone in the ongoing movement for prostitutes’ rights. Chaired and organized by James Elias and Vern Bullough of the Center for Sex Research at California State University, Northridge, and by […]
Wankers of the World Unite: You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Shame
I can’t say that I liked The People vs. Larry Flynt as gushingly as Greta Christina did (see Spectator, January 10), but I certainly did have a good time watching it. More than that, I’m really glad to know that this […]
Photographing The Whores of Storyville
Nobody knows much about E. J. Bellocq, an unexceptional commercial photographer who lived in New Orleans shortly after the turn of the century. He took a lot of pictures of boats to pay the rent. He was an odd, indrawn, misshapen man, hydrocephalic and a dwarf. According to another […]
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