Join us to learn and organize around the #RentboyRaid, police profiling and violence against people in the sex trades, and the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, along with other issues of concern to people in the sex trades in New York City.
When: Wednesday, November 11th from 6 to 8:30 p.m
Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY
Who: Monica Jones, Community Organizer, Best Practices Policy Project
Jenna Torres, Community Organizer, Red Umbrella Project
Brendan M. Conner,...
Join us to learn and organize around the #RentboyRaid, police profiling and violence against people in the sex trades, and the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, along with other issues of concern to people in the sex trades in New York City.
When: Wednesday, November 11th from 6 to 8:30 p.m
Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY
Who: Monica Jones, Community Organizer, Best Practices Policy Project
Jenna Torres, Community Organizer, Red Umbrella Project
Brendan M. Conner, Member and Attorney, #HookUp Collaborative
Mitchyll Mora (Moderator), Community Organizer, #HookUp Collaborative
The Rentboy.com raid is the latest front in a state-sponsored war to criminalize the survival of people in the sex trades. Rentboy offered a safer way to work, screen clients and create community, now it no longer exists pushing those that advertised on Rentboy onto other online platforms and the street.
Yet the violence of the Rentboy raid is felt daily in our communities. People in the sex trades are being questioned, harassed, assaulted, and arrested on prostitution related offenses every single day in New York City. Law enforcement agencies put our lives at risk by arresting us for carrying condoms, serving us ‘Bawdy House’ evictions from our apartments, raiding brothels, massage parlors, and gay sex venues that we use to increase our safety. All of this happening in the larger context of criminalization of people who trade sex, in which vagrancy, loitering, prostitution, and promoting laws are used to target people of color, especially trans women and gender-nonconforming people of color.
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