The latest in the GLBT Historical Society's monthly "Fighting Back" series exploring contemporary queer issues in a historical context, "Queers and Sex Work: Legal Repression, Community Resistance" will address LGBTQ people's past and present associations with commercially mediated sex as workers, clients or pro-sex activists and how the state has historically criminalized the intersections of sex work, queer sex and queer sexual speech. The panel will draw on this background to critique the new FOSTA/SESTA legislation outlawing what federal authorities qualify as "trafificking" on social media networks and other online platforms. A diverse panel of historians, community organizers and advocates will discuss how responses to the ongoing criminalization of sex work can help inform today's resistance movements.
LOCATIONThe GLBT History Museum4127 18th St., San Franciscowww.glbthistory.orgADMISSIONFree admission | $5 suggested donationJOIN THE GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETYBecome a member of the GLBT Historical Society for free admission to the exhibition opening and other programs, free museum admission, discounts in the museum shop and other perks: goo.gl/WjkGSn
Photo Credit: International AIDS Conference in San Francisco, Women's March, 1990. Photo Courtesy of Rick Gerharter.
The latest in the GLBT Historical Society's monthly "Fighting Back" series exploring contemporary queer issues in a historical context, "Queers and Sex Work: Legal Repression, Community Resistance" will address LGBTQ people's past and present associations with commercially mediated sex as workers, clients or pro-sex activists and how the state has historically criminalized the intersections of sex work, queer sex and queer sexual speech. The panel will draw on this background to critique the new FOSTA/SESTA legislation outlawing what federal authorities qualify as "trafificking" on social media networks and other online platforms. A diverse panel of historians, community organizers and advocates will discuss how responses to the ongoing criminalization of sex work can help inform today's resistance movements.
LOCATIONThe GLBT History Museum4127 18th St., San Franciscowww.glbthistory.orgADMISSIONFree admission | $5 suggested donationJOIN THE GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETYBecome a member of the GLBT Historical Society for free admission to the exhibition opening and other programs, free museum admission, discounts in the museum shop and other perks: goo.gl/WjkGSn
Photo Credit: International AIDS Conference in San Francisco, Women's March, 1990. Photo Courtesy of Rick Gerharter.
read more
show less