"We are working on putting together a contingent and “float” for this year’s SF pride parade on June 29th, with the support of the Center for Sex and Culture and the St. James Infirmary. During last year’s very successful historic sex worker bike tour, Sex On Wheels, organized by Jenny Worley, Sadie learned that in the Barbary Coast days, before the turn of the century (1900, not 2000) brothels would parade their girls down Market Streets in carriages as advertising.
“Prostitute Pride Parade! Between 1849 and 1906, madams and sex workers from each of San Francisco’s brothels would pile into open carriages and drive up and down Market Street to advertise their businesses and show off their fabulousness. This Saturday afternoon prostitutes’ parade was a San Francisco establishment from the gold rush until the great quake.”
Our vision is to create a nostalgic homage to our predecessors with a contingent of sex workers (all genders and genres welcome!) dressed in vintage lingerie and transported by trolley as well as traipsing and strutting while throwing rose petals down Market St. The goal is to bring some visibility to sex workers, especially queer sex workers while giving a little history lesson to the invaluable role sex workers have played in building this city; as well as looking gorgeous and sexy, having fun, and who knows, maybe even inadvertently advertising!"
see: Bound, Not Gagged
“Prostitute Pride Parade! Between 1849 and 1906, madams and sex workers from each of San Francisco’s brothels would pile into open carriages and drive up and down Market Street to advertise their businesses and show off their fabulousness. This Saturday afternoon prostitutes’ parade was a San Francisco establishment from the gold rush until the great quake.”
Our vision is to create a nostalgic homage to our predecessors with a contingent of sex workers (all genders and genres welcome!) dressed in vintage lingerie and transported by trolley as well as traipsing and strutting while throwing rose petals down Market St. The goal is to bring some visibility to sex workers, especially queer sex workers while giving a little history lesson to the invaluable role sex workers have played in building this city; as well as looking gorgeous and sexy, having fun, and who knows, maybe even inadvertently advertising!"
see: Bound, Not Gagged
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