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maxine doogan

I’ve had loads of a success in getting labor, political and LGBT political groups support for our agenda on the west coast. I recently got our local LGBT political club to pass a resolution calling on our state legislatures to enact anti discrimination legislation on our behalf because one of my friends who was raped in her home was denied access to the state victim’s compensation fund because she and her assailant were association with a particular sw chat board. Last year I got several political groups to pass a resolution calling for our congressional members to removal of the anti prostitution oath from the international AIDS funding when it comes for renewal in 2013.....

January 25, 2013

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Really appreciate much about this informative article. Also it would be awesome to see cross cutting movement organizing against the criminalization of sex work and the criminalization of HIV! Sex workers also face HIV criminalization. So important to organize in light of what you speak of in the last paragraph, the ways in which sex workers and/or trans women of color and gender non conforming people, homeless queer and/or trans youth etc are really left out of neoliberal mainstream non profit "LGBT" priorities and agendas as well as homonormative historical narratives. Really inspirational to see diasporic AIDS activist organizing by sex workers in India, South Africa, Brazil. Would love to see more conversation about these connections and about ways to organize AIDS activists, politicized non profits and ASOs, queer and/or trans collectives and current ACT UP chapters against sex work, HIV criminalization i.e. the prison industrial complex

January 25, 2013