Sex Workers @ 2006 Int'l AIDS Conference
I've spent the last week immersed again in all these updates coming in from all over, on the role of sex workers at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto -- so, straight from my overloaded browser tabs to you, along with a bonus track: Claire Thiboutot, executive director of Montreal's stellar sex worker organization, Stella, on Democracy Now!
<ul>"Sex Worker Rights: Time to Deliver!", on Stella and the goings-on at the sex workers' Stiletto Lounge in the conference's Global Village, from Canadian CTV
This positive piece pairs super cute, super pink photos of a performance on safer sex with right-on links between decriminalization and risk prevention.
Rachel Wotton reports in for the Scarlet Alliance, with a recap of sex worker actions throughout the conference (including unfurling a banner in protest during Bill Gates' speech).
So guess which former US president at the conference said:
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