Considering what else goes on up there, San Francisco officials say, this weekend’s Courtesan Carnival, a benefit to send sex workers to classes where they will study labor organizing, will be like a “wholesome church spaghetti dinner.”
“I walk three steps out of my office and there’s some poly-gendered juice straining PVC-clad Kucinich supporter fisting God-knows-what in the alley and asking for healthcare and a BART discount,” didn’t say San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. “The prostitutes seem like Cub Scouts by comparison.”
The Erotic Service Providers’ Union is throwing the first annual Courtesan Carnival, a two-part event that begins this Sunday with a Porn Star Karaoke Rock and Roll Show and Auction, co-sponsored with the Harvey Milk Democratic Club (www.milkclub.org), at Annie’s Social Club from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Funds acquired during these events will go to Summer Institute for Union Women training that will educate erotic service providers about their occupational, health, safety, social, civil and economic rights. In addition, erotic service providers will learn how to negotiate for improved wages and work conditions, organizing and how to stay organized, as well as how to wield the power of collective bargaining.
Eyeing the poster depicting a couple of pairs of shaved white legs, Newsom didn’t add, “Compared to what I just saw at the ATM on Market Street, this looks downright wholesome.”
Previously: San Francisco sex workers seek to unionize; And another thing: it’s not sex work when you’re just lying there
See also: Erotic Services Providers’ Union
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