LGBTQ
Statement: Reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004
The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is an organisation of sex workers, working both on the streets and in premises. Since 1975 we have been campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution, for sex workers’ rights and safety and for resources to enable people to get out of prostitution if they want to. Many trans people […]
Statement: Trans Day of Remembrance
On 20 November we remember and commemorate the 325 trans and gender-diverse people who have been reported murdered in the past 12 months globally.[1] Migrants and sex workers make up the majority of victims.Like other sex workers, trans sex workers go into sex work to survive. In the US for example, trans people are more […]
Statement: Working from premises
I am an immigrant lesbian woman and I work as a prostitute. I have written this because I can’t speak publicly as a prostitute. I am fed up with living a double life.I decided to go on the game because I didn’t want to be dependent on men anymore. But to be independent from men, […]
Liberal Democrat Voice: Why Liberal Democrats must oppose any criminalisation of sex workers
By Sarah Noble Tuesday, Parliament will debate the Report Stage of the Modern Slavery Bill, and in particular, an amendments that would criminalise the purchase of sex in England and Wales, similar to the one that was passed in Northern Ireland just a couple of weeks ago. It’s important that, as Liberal Democrats, we oppose […]
Event: Anarchist Bookfair workshop – consenting sex is not a crime
Consenting sex is not a crime! 4.00pm – 5.00pmQueen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. 2nd Floor, Room 2.41Gay sex has been decriminalised yet the criminalisation of sex work has increased. Why should two adults who want to have consensual sexual contact with each other in private not be able to do […]
OpenDemocracy: East end boys and west end boys – does gentrification lead to homophobia?
Three men recently attacked my date and I in London’s gay village Soho. They threw coins and shouted “faggot”. I think gentrification partly prompted their resentment. Recently, I was on a date. It was dinner with this guy I’d met at a party, and afterwards we strolled to the train station, stopping every couple […]
The Guardian: Rupert Everett in defence of prostitutes: ‘There is a land grab going on’
The prostitutes of London’s red-light district are being evicted. Here, Rupert Everett argues, with wit and vehemence, that closing down the brothels has nothing to do with protecting women The other night I watched Stephen Ward at the Aldwych Theatre, a morality musical about the destruction of an innocent man by the combined forces of Her Majesty’s […]
Independent: Hands off our seedy Soho – Do we really want our London streets ‘cleaned up’?
No one is congratulating the men who pay for sex for their contribution to a local economy, but the issue here is one vice against another – greed versus lust JOY LO DICO Waves of moralism regularly sweep up the river Thames. When the bankers seemed too rich, the Occupy encampment moved in. Oxford Street […]