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- Wednesday, 24 December 2008
The Scarlet Alliance and CAAH have begun working together in the fight against violence against GLBT people and sex workers.
Last week the two groups held a rally on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, which included a march through Kings Cross.
Today is the day sex workers across the world take a stand for justice, dignity and safety, and stand against the stigmas that stop us having equal rights under the law, sex worker activist Julie Bates said at the rally.
We are working citizens of the world and we want dignity as workers. Sex work is just work after all.
The Scarlet Alliance has agreed to help with the International Day Against Homophobia rally in May.
The Scarlet Alliance recently completed a study into the needs of HIV positive sex workers -” most of whom were gay men -” that identified concerns about inconsistent laws between states and territories and stigma in government and health agencies.
January 6th, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
Remember what Fred Nile quoted “women should not be on the beach because of naked boobs”, he is soooo out-dated in his thinking (like 1923 thinking). I wish he was commpassionate about other issues (such as poverty, human rights abuses, the economy and family law structures), but he only cares about running vandettas against muslims, women, blacks and gays – next thing he will say is “gays should be banned from the beach and Liqour stores because they take there shirt off while drunk” (oh shit I just gave him some ideas)