LGBTQ Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/lgbtq/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:28:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png LGBTQ Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/lgbtq/ 32 32 How the UK Online Safety Act is harming marginalized communities and setting a dangerous global precedent https://prostitutescollective.net/how-the-uk-online-safety-act-is-harming-marginalized-communities-and-setting-a-dangerous-global-precedent/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:23:33 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20125 By Repro Uncensored and the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP)The UK’s Online Safety Act is often described as a landmark effort to make the internet safer. Framed around protection, particularly of children, the law introduces sweeping duties for online platforms to identify and reduce the risk of harm on their services.But as the Act moves […]

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]]> Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them https://prostitutescollective.net/meta-is-deleting-queer-and-sex-worker-accounts-and-our-communities-are-being-erased-with-them/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:14:50 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20088 By the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP)More than 45 queer and sex worker accounts have been removed across the UK, the Netherlands, and other countries in a coordinated wave of digital erasure. Meta is shutting down sex worker accounts, and the interconnected networks we belong to including queer collectives, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights […]

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]]> OpenDemocracy: How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement https://prostitutescollective.net/opendemocracy-how-wages-for-housework-sparked-an-international-solidarity-movement/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:48:37 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20036 The 1970s movement paved the way for queer, Black, trans and sex working feminist organising across the world todayJake HallThe first thing to know about the international Wages for Housework campaign that began in the 1970s is that you shouldn’t take the name at face value. This wasn't some single-issue movement committed to putting pennies […]

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]]> Event: Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble & history – 22 October https://prostitutescollective.net/event-hookers-dykes-and-women-of-colour-celebrate-50-years-of-making-trouble-history-22-october/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:12:42 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19614 When: Wednesday 22 October 18:30 - 20:30Where: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QH(Full wheelchair access. Bar & refreshments)Price: £15 / £11(Please get in touch with womenofcolour@globalwomenstrike.net which is dealing with this for all three organisations if you want to come but can’t afford it)

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]]> SF Bay View: California repeals discriminatory loitering for prostitution law https://prostitutescollective.net/sf-bay-view-california-repeals-discriminatory-loitering-for-prostitution-law%ef%bf%bc/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:22:33 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17082 by Rachel West, US PROStitutes CollectiveThere is a wave of change in the US on the rights of sex workers and it is growing. A slew of laws challenging the criminalization of sex work are being put forward around the country and New York, Seattle and now California have repealed legislation which made loitering for […]

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]]> Statement: Gabriela, Trans Day of Remembrance https://prostitutescollective.net/tdor-2021/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:48:41 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16030 Trans people globally live under the constant threat of violence, and for trans sex workers this is heightened by illegality & stigma. This Trans Day of Remembrance we’re sharing a short statement from a migrant trans woman in our network on how criminalisation impacts sex workers' safety  My name is Gabriela, I am a transsexual woman and […]

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]]> Statement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun with love and gratitude https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-remembering-maureen-colquhoun/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 01:09:45 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=15113 The post Statement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun with love and gratitude appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 (2018-2020) https://prostitutescollective.net/reform-of-the-gender-recognition-act-gra-2004-2018-2020/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:43:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16057 In July 2018, the UK Government published its consultation on reform of the GRA in England and Wales. The ECP’s submission supported calls for reform that included the removal of the requirement for a medical diagnosis for achieving legal recognition as well as recognition of non-binary people and those under the age of 18. Read […]

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]]> Pink News: Labour MP tables controversial bill to criminalise buying sex. Sex workers say it would put their lives in danger https://prostitutescollective.net/pink-news-labour-mp-tables-controversial-bill-to-criminalise-buying-sex-sex-workers-say-it-would-put-their-lives-in-danger/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:47:38 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14900 VIC PARSONS  Trade unions, sex workers, women’s rights organisations and thousands of individuals have united to oppose a Labour bill that would bring the “Nordic model” sex work law to England and Wales. Due to be put forward today by Labour MP Diana Johnson, the bill on “sexual exploitation” would criminalise paying for sex and target […]

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]]> Natalia, a migrant trans sex worker https://prostitutescollective.net/interview-natalia-a-migrant-trans-sex-worker/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:55:37 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=12128 Transcript from an online event Q&A with Natalia, a trans woman from Brazil in the ECP network.

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