Gemeinsam sind wir stark - Einzeln müssen wir betteln

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 15.08.2011, 11:50

40 jährige Geschichte der Lesben- und Schwulenbewegung ...

1966 San Francisco: Compton Cafeteria Riots

28. Juni 1969 Revolte der Schwulen und Transen gegen Polizeirazzia im Stonewall Inn in der Christopher Street, NYC U.S.A.

1. September 1969 Entschärfung des § 175 Strafgesetzbuch, welcher sexuelle Handlungen zwischen Männern unter Strafe stellte. Der § 175 des deutschen Strafgesetzbuches existiert vom 01.Januar 1872 (Inkrafttreten des Reichsstrafgesetzbuches) bis zum 11. Juni 1994!

1971 Rosa von Praunheims Film „Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt“

1971 „Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin“ (HAW) bis 1999

1. Mai 1972 Arbeiter-Kundgebung erstmals mit „schwulem Block“

1. Mai 1973 mit 150 Schwulen und Lesben: „Homosexuell – ob ja ob nein – im Klassenkampf heißt’s solidarisch sein“

„Die Unterdrückung der Homosexualität ist nur ein Spezialfall der allgemeinen Sexualunterdrückung“

1973 Pfingsttreffen mit 500 TeilnehmerInnen, Berlin

1974 Rosa Winkel wird zum Symbol der Schwulenbewegung

1974 Erstes Lesben-Frühlings Treffen Berlin

1974 Schwule machen ihre eigene Wissenschaft: Martin Dannecker und Reimut Reiche: "Der gewöhnliche Homosexuelle. Eine soziologische Untersuchung über männliche Homosexuelle in der BRD" Fischer, Frankfurt am Main

„Tuntenstreit“ zwischen dogmatischen und undogmatischen HAW-Männern in einem „feministischen“ und einem gewerkschaftlich orientierten Block

Abspaltung "Allgemeine homosexuelle Arbeitsgemeinschaft" (AHA)

1977 "SchwulenZentrums" (SchwuZ) der HAW, Berlin

1978 Verlag rosa Winkel und erster schwuler Buchladen "Prinz Eisenherz", Berlin

7. November 1978 Ermordung des ersten schwulen Bürgermeisters Harvey Milk in San Francisco vom religiösen Mitbewerber

1979 HOMOLULU Festival Frankfurt

1979 erste CSDs in Bremen, Berlin, Münster (72)...

1981 erstes Schwulenreferat an der FU Berlin

1985 Herbert Rusche, erster offen schwuler Politiker im deutschen Bundestag (die Grünen)

1985 Schwules Museum Berlin

1988/1992 BiNe Bisexuelles Netzwerk

1990 www.LSVD.de Lesben und Schwulenverband gegründet aus der Bürgerrechtsbewegung der DDR

1992 Aktion Standesamt vom LSVD gegen das Eheverbot

1994 §175 StGB gestrichen s.o.

...

2001 Klaus Wowereit, schwuler Bürgermeister Berlin (SPD)

2009 Guido Westerwelle, schwuler Bundesaußenminister (FDP)

...

2011 Slut Walks Deutschland

http://blog.aidshilfe.de/2011/08/15/hom ... estberlin/

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicht_der_ ... er_er_lebt

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchwuZ

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuel ... Westberlin

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesben-Fr% ... gs-Treffen

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Rusche

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Street_Day

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSVD

AIDS-Chronik:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=99799#99799

Chronik Sexworker Movement:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=89716#89716

Chronik der Schwulenverfolgung durch kath. Kirche:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=105055#105055

It get's better

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=9im8sQrM-4U[/youtube]

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 13.10.2011, 03:43

Keith Haring

Am 11. Oktober war internationaler Coming-out Day.

Das ist eine Erfindung der Schwulen Community, um ihresgleichen zu helfen. In den U.S.A. seit 1988. Man könnte es auch als eine geschickte Human Ressources Maßnahme bezeichnen, um eine starke Emanzipations-Bewegung werden zu können.

Das Äquivalent der Sexworker heißt "Sex Worker Awareness" oder "Sex Worker Rights Movement" ... vgl. unsere Gedenktage 3. März, 2. Juni und 17. Dezember etc.

Soziale-gesellschaftliche Unterstützung für freiwilliges Coming-out benötigt auch die in weiten Bereichen unsichtbare aber große Gruppe der Sexworker (200-400.000 in D). Diese sexuelle Minderheit (hetero, homo, TG) kann nur nach gelungenem Coming-out legal und sicher arbeiten/leben und so Tabuisierung, Stigmatisierung bis hin zu Kriminalisierung überwinden. Viele brennen leider aus, verarmen, werden zum Sozialhilfefall oder werden Opfer von Ausbeutung (sexualisierte Gewalt, Menschenhandel...).

Gut dass die NRW-Regierungskoalition mal einen runden Tisch initiiert hat, um sich die Probleme von Sexworkern anzuhören (Governance). Bei Mitbestimmungsmöglichkeiten und Akzeptanz von Selbstorganisation (Deliberation, Selbstkontrolle, Gewerkschaftsbildung) bestehen leider noch große Defizite:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7496

Gute Beispiele für Akzeptanzkampagnen kommen aus USA:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=943&start=157
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=943&start=181

P.S. Das Gegenstück zur "Homophobie" heißt übrigens "Putophobie" oder engl.: "Whorephobia" (Prostitutionsfeindlichkeit).

So wie die USA einen "Krieg gegen den Terror" führen, gibt es in USA und international auch einen "War against Whores" gegen Prostitution (gemeint ist die Propaganda zum Thema Menschenhandel, wo in Deutschland von der Polizei/BKA ca. 1.000 Fälle pro Jahr an die Gerichte abgegeben werden, aber in den Medien gerne mal von 40.000 sog. "Zwangsprostituierten" phantasiert wird...).

Kampagne und Hilfsverein aus Köln:
www.coming-out-day.de

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Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 15.10.2011, 07:35

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JXrMQRp3eE[/youtube]

http://feministwhore.wordpress.com/2011 ... st-breath/

Beitrag von **ehemaliger_User** » 15.10.2011, 11:36

Gehört nicht direkt hierher:

Ich habe seit ein paar Monaten direkte Nachbarn: ein männliches Paar. Deren Reihenhausnachbarin sagte mir: "Die sind sogar ganz nett und scwer in Ordnung"... (Ich wohne in einem Dorf)

Die zwei haben, nur durch ihre Anwesenheit, auch bei Nachbarschaftsfesten, schon einiges in den Köpfen der unmittelbaren Umgebung bewegt.

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 15.10.2011, 21:17

Gegenmittel gegen Apathie

Tolle Analyse von bisheriger allg. Politikmüdigkeit und Apathie, was sich derzeit änder.

Menschen sind gar nicht apathisch! Sie war nur fabriziert! Es gab und gibt eher eine gewollte Exklusion von Bürgerbeteiligung.

Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy
TED Toronto 2010
Video 7 min:
www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dave_meslin_ ... pathy.html

1. Politik und Verwaltung: selbstständige, kritische Bürger versucht man draussen zu halten.

2. Ökonomie: Nur finanzstarkte Firmenbotschaften werden plakatiert.

3. Medien: Verkaufen sich über Nachrichten-Unterhaltungswert. Service leisten sie nur bei Freizeit- und Unterhaltungsthemen aber nicht bei Politik. Das erzeugt die falsche Botschaft: "Politik ist ein Sportevent wo man nur zuschaut".

4. Heldenbilder: Film und Literatur seien oftmals fremdbestimmte, ausgewählte Helden-Figuren. Die Realität ist aber andersherum. Revolutionäre folgen ihrem inneren Feuer und Gerechtigkeitsempfinden.

5. Parteien: da richen die Leute aus der Ferne was nicht stimmt.

6. Charities: dürfen sich in Kanada nicht politisch einbringen.

7. Wahlen: sind eine Farce in Kanada.

Wenn die Verhinderungsmechanismen aufgedeckt und abgebaut werden ist alles möglich.

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 27.10.2011, 17:19

Sex workers in history:

The San Francisco prostitute march of 1917

10.26.11 | Lucy Schiller

One morning in January 1917, 300 prostitutes marched into the church of their biggest detractor, Reverend Paul J. Smith. They were ready to show the anti-vice crusader what they were made of.

The women were organizing in the face of what had become a decades-long dwindling of their rights, spearheaded by the reverend himself.

The world’s oldest profession flourished in brothels all over the city during the Gold Rush, thanks to all those lonely 49ers. But sex work has never been uncontroversial -- and the local practice quickly accumulated its own critics.

Officials began cracking down on city brothels in the 1850s, slowly pushing them into tinier and tinier spaces.

By 1909, sex work had been ghettoized in the Chinatown neighborhood and in 1911, to an even tinier strip of city known as the Barbary Coast.

The 300 prostitutes had some community support, even a municipal clinic supposed to cater to their needs. But weekly checkups were mandatory. Anyone who refused could be arrested.

Reverend Smith took a hard line against what he saw as the heart of San Francisco’s vice. With friends, he gathered data on nightly wanderings through houses of ill repute (next time you find yourself in a gallivanting bachelor party, just use the “collecting evidence” excuse).

Smith aggressively proposed a “state farm” – olden speak for rehab – for the sex workers, insisting he had their moral wellbeing at heart.

The Reverend stepped on a few toes on the way, accusing police and politicians of having their hands in the pockets and up the skirts of brothels.

An obviously annoyed Mayor James Rolph published an open letter in the San Francisco Chronicle lampooning Smith’s idea for a state farm. “I fail to see how it is proposed to reform the women by putting them on a farm. Is it your idea to make them milkmaids?”

But Smith’s most compelling challengers were the prostitutes themselves, who crowded into the reverend’s church the day of their march asking what, exactly, his intentions were for his campaign of persecution.

“Are you trying to reform us or are you trying to reform social conditions?” asked one woman.

Smith proposed that the sex workers turn to alternate professions where they would earn the minimum wage – $10 a week, half of what the prostitutes estimated they made through sex work. His suggestion was met with laughter.

“What ship are you going to send us away on?” challenged another. Smith brought up the possibility of doing housework, presumably while being financially dependent on a husband (numerous men, in fact, had written the reverend looking to be fixed up with a good-looking fallen woman).

“What woman wants to work in a kitchen?” a member of the crowd shouted.

Citing his “impassioned critics,” the reverend adjourned the meeting.

By Valentine’s Day, the anti-vice movement forced a roundup [razzia] of more than a thousand working women from city brothels and dance halls.

But for a brief moment, sex workers native and foreign, young, old, and middle-aged, had made their voices heard in a city mostly hostile to their existence. At the time, the Chronicle characterized the march as “one of the strangest gatherings that ever took place in San Francisco.”

Yeah right. In any case, “strange” isn’t the right word.

Photos:
Prostitutes at Church: "Prostitutes Attending a Church Meeting in the Barbary Coast District," Jan. 25, 1917

Drawing of Paul Smith from the May 14, 1916 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle

"Busy nighttime scene on Pacific St. in the Barbary Coast District," 1913

"Group of women sitting together, Barbary Coast," 1890. All photos via SF Public Library

"The Ladies, Barbary Coast," 1890

www.sfbg.com/sexsf/2011/10/26/sex-worke ... march-1917

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 30.10.2011, 15:33

L’anthologie de textes Luttes XXX : inspirations du mouvement des travailleuses du sexe au Québec de Maria Nengeh Mensah, Claire Thiboutot et Louise Toupin nous fait découvrir, de l’intérieur, les initiatives des travailleuses du sexe pour faire connaître leurs revendications. (novembre 2011)

A new anthology by Les éditions du Remue-ménage on the sex workers rights movment co-editied by Maria Nengeh Mensah, Claire Thiboutot and Louise Toupin, this book reproduces and presents the various forms of resistance that have inspired sex workers around the world to mobilize and demand social recognition.

Luttes XXX includes 85 texts, a large number of which are available for the first time in French, and more than fifty illustrations. These are grouped into 8 sites of resistance: “organizing”
“working”
“feminisms”
“telling our story”
“decriminalization”
“fighting against HIV\AIDS”
“migration issues”
“cultural representation”

www.editions-rm.ca/nouvelle.php?id=1360

www.lauraAgustin.com/lancement-de-lutte ... es-du-sexe

www.plri.org/story/launch-luttes-xxx-in ... es-du-sexe

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 09.11.2011, 18:06

Prostitutionskritik darf nicht mißbraucht werden, die Selbstorganisation und Stimme der Sexworker zu unterdrücken!

Critiques of sex work in no way amount to a justification to attack sex workers self-organisation!

Veranstalter des "Sex Work and Anarchism" Workshop in London

antworten auf ein Flugblatt, was auf ihrem Workshop verteilt wurde "Prostitution is Not Compatible with Anarchism":

"under capitalism nothing is spared commodification."

"Sex workers are in no better a position to choose not to work than anyone else and many workers, including many sex workers, have had little choice in what job they have to do to survive. ... even those who chose this job over others are merely choosing which form their exploitation is going to take."

"The idea that there is something liberating or empowering about sex work is lacking in an analysis of the nature of work and is possibly a reaction against the stigma associated with sex work. This results in the sex worker being constructed by some as a subversive queer identity."

"Attempts to abolish sex work before any other work is as naive as the war on drugs but with the additional logistical problem that it involves a commodity which can be produced at any time by anyone."

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10748 oder hier
www.afed.org.uk/blog/workplace/267-resp ... chism.html

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 11.11.2011, 13:43

Sexworker-Parade:

Pute Pride Paris

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9sfBWPrsyk[/youtube]

www.strass-syndicat.org

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 01.12.2011, 04:23

Kanada:

Sex worker cooperative since 2004 plans co-operative brothel

West Coast Cooperative of Sex Industry Professionals
www.wccsip.ca/theCooperative.html

Are Co-op Brothels the Answer?
http://joannachiu.wordpress.com/2011/01 ... he-answer/

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 24.02.2012, 17:16

Zeittafel - 5000 Jahre Geschichte für Menschenrechte:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=81966#81966

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 31.03.2012, 13:16

Mitgliederwerbung Sexworker-Gewerkschaft

Bild

www.iusw.org/tags/gmb-benefits/

www.gmb.org.uk

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMB_%28Gewerkschaft%29

Ein Vorbild auch fürs Sexworker.at-Land A - CH - D?

In Deutschland vergleichar ver.di:
http://besondere-dienste.hamburg.verdi. ... ostitution

In Österreich...

In der Schweiz...

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 10.04.2012, 22:01

Diskussion P6-Kooperativen:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9474

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 10.04.2012, 22:09

Auf dem Weg zu einer internationalen Sexwork-Gewerkschafts-Konferenz

An alle Sexarbeiter die bereits Mitglieder einer Gewerkschaft sind, vernetzt Euch mit Maxine von ESPU California:

Maxine Doogan: "Hey international brothers and sisters-lets get an international sex worker union conference going. Lets start talking and planning now!"

Erotic Service Providers Union
http://espu-ca.org/wp/

Aktion San Francisco 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNIfYMQbC5Y[/youtube]

________________

Intenational Union of Federated Sex Workers

www.iufsw.org

Burlington, VT, USA

.

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 09.05.2012, 20:06

In Search of Stripper Solidarity

Can professional dancers find workplace justice?

BY Rachel Aimee
She is a writer and activist living in Brooklyn. She co-founded $pread, a magazine by and for sex workers, where she was editor-in-chief. She organizes for strippers' rights with the outreach project We Are Dancers NYC.

- By law, independent contractors can't unionize.
- More insidiously, dancers' endless competition for tips undermines the kind of worker solidarity necessary for any sort of workplace organizing.

The last time I danced at a strip club in Manhattan, I paid an $80 “house fee” to work. I was shouted at for slouching in my seat and for eating my lunch at the wrong time, and I went home with $40 less than I’d arrived with. After working in this exploitative industry for many years, I wanted to organize to improve working conditions for strippers. But when I reached out to other activists who had been involved in campaigns to protect dancers’ rights, the overwhelming response I got was: “Don’t do it!”

They had a point.

When dancers at the Lusty Lady, a San Francisco peepshow, successfully unionized in 1997, they put strippers’ labor rights on the map. Third-wave feminists across the world rushed to hold up the Lusty Lady as proof that sex work doesn’t have to be exploitative. The unionization drive and subsequent transition of the club into a worker-owned cooperative was seen by many as the start of a movement in which strippers would put a stop to the discriminatory practices that plague the industry.

Fifteen years later, the Lusty Lady remains the only unionized stripping venue in the country, and working conditions in most clubs have gotten worse, with dancers paying up to $300 a shift to work and often going home in debt to their employers. Meanwhile, dancers at the Lusty Lady have contracts and receive a standard wage instead of having to compete for tips. But rather than looking to the Lusty Lady as a beacon of progress, most strippers balk at the thought of working for an hourly wage instead of hustling for tips.

“I have never met anyone who lap-dances for any reason other than to make as much money in as little time as possible,” says Tempest, a dancer who was involved in the Lusty Lady union drive and now believes the effort may have been counterproductive. She poses a question that strippers can’t afford to ignore: “Is unionizing strip clubs conducive to making a profit?”

For most of my stripping career, I worked at a club in Queens, N.Y., that didn’t charge house fees. In 2008, when a new manager instituted a house fee, my coworkers and I wrote a letter asking management to stop charging the fee. Most of the dancers at the club signed it, so we figured we’d be safe – they couldn’t fire all of us, right? Of course, the owner turned out to be smarter than we’d thought: He retaliated by banning us from selling lap-dances, thus taking away our primary means of making money.

War broke out between the dancers who had signed the letter and those who hadn’t, with the latter accusing us of being bad at our jobs and ruining the club for the girls who knew how to make money. Many dancers, including those who had signed the letter, left to work at clubs that charged higher house fees but offered the freedom to hustle and sell dances. “If you didn’t want to pay the house fee, get another job!” one dancer screamed at me.

She didn’t need to yell for long. A few weeks later, the owner fired me and another dancer, whom he took to be the instigators, and re-introduced the house fee. I was left feeling that those who had warned me against organizing in strip clubs were right: Most strippers are willing to tolerate labor violations in exchange for the relative freedom to pursue quick cash in an unregulated environment.

Who wants to be an employee?

Tempest says that the Lusty Lady unionization drive made things worse for dancers on a wider scale by discouraging club owners from classifying dancers as employees. “In a sense, what we said to club owners when we organized was ‘If you make us employees, empower us, and give us better working conditions, we can – and probably will – use it against you.’ To potential club owners, what happened at the Lusty Lady could easily be seen as an example of what not to do.”

Whether or not the industry-wide shift toward classifying dancers as independent contractors was a result of fear of Lusty Lady-style unionization, it has certainly made it more difficult for dancers to organize for labor rights. By law, independent contractors are unable to unionize. More insidiously, dancers’ endless competition for tips undermines the worker solidarity necessary for any sort of workplace organizing.

But while independent contractor status has delivered a major setback to the strippers’ rights movement, dancers have not given up – they have merely shifted the battle site to courts. Ever since club owners figured out they could make more money by classifying dancers as independent contractors and charging them house fees, dancers across the country have been challenging the legality of this practice by filing lawsuits against individual clubs, claiming that they are employees, not independent contractors, and as such should not be paying to work. Results of these lawsuits vary, but in the majority of cases, courts rule in favor of dancers, who are awarded compensation for the house fees they’ve paid out over the years, as well as the back wages to which they are entitled as employees.

As yet, these lawsuits haven’t led to widespread change in the strip club industry, but the cumulative effect may be beginning to force club owners to pay attention. In July 2009, a Massachusetts state court ruled in favor of a dancer named Lucienne Chaves, who filed a class action lawsuit against King Arthur’s Lounge in Chelsea, Mass., leading to a slew of dancers across the state filing similar lawsuits against other strip clubs. Clubs across the state then began voluntarily switching over to classifying strippers as employees in an attempt to limit potential damages.

But not all Massachusetts dancers are happy with the change. Writing in The Daily Caller, Pussy Per Se, a stripper who has danced in clubs across New England, says: “I was an independent contractor, working at half a dozen clubs, making good money. It was a perfect job for a single mom. I could arrange my schedule around my son’s, … I might work a single club for weeks, …. [o]r I might take a break to go on a road trip with another dancer, reaping the benefit of being ‘new girls’ at a distant club.” But as an employee, she writes, she has lost this freedom in exchange for the security of being a “wage slave.”

Pussy Per Se has a point, but she’s missing part of the picture. The last time I worked in a Manhattan club, I was not the only one regularly going home in debt; I was not even in the minority. Friends working in clubs across the city report similar stories of building up debt to the point that, when they finally have a good night, they end up paying most of it back to the club in the form of back-house fees.

You could argue that dancers couldn’t be making that little or they would have quit already, but getting a day job is not an option for everyone. Many strippers are undocumented immigrants; others have no formal qualifications or experience outside of the sex industry. For these women, losing money to the club three nights a week and then landing a decent customer and going home with $250 on the fourth night is better than nothing. Meanwhile, clubs collect their house fees from dancers and win every time.

Learning from the Lusty Lady

So, what to do with an industry in which none of us want to give up our independence, but the cost of independence is bleeding us dry? There may be a third way between unionization drives and lawsuits brought by individual strippers. I recently heard about a club in California that seems to be striking a balance between freedom and fair labor practices. Unsurprisingly, it is owned and run by two former dancers. Dancers at Ruby’s (club name changed at the request of sources) pay house fees like independent contractors. What makes them different from dancers at most clubs is that they are actually treated like independent contractors, which essentially means no schedules.

The idea of running a strip club where dancers can come and go as they please may sound like a logistical nightmare, but Ruby’s appears to be making it work. “Management comes up with incentives to encourage dancers to work at certain times,” says Megan, a dancer at Ruby’s. “If you schedule yourself ahead of time you pay $20 instead of $30. If they see there aren’t enough girls working, they text dancers to try to get more to come in.” Dancers and managers negotiate these rules together at regular meetings.

Unlike the Lusty Lady, the democratic style of management at Ruby’s is motivated by practicality, rather than idealism. The owners know that if they’re going to classify dancers as independent contractors, they need to treat them like independent contractors or risk getting sued. At one point, there was a threat of trouble when the management wanted dancers to work longer hours. “We said, ‘If you do that, we’re not going to come in at all,’ ” Megan says. Eventually they negotiated a deal so that dancers who work the whole shift pay a lower house fee. “The easiest way to get strippers to follow the rules is to have strippers make the rules,” Megan says.

After learning about Ruby’s, I began to wonder if dancers across the country should go to court to be treated as independent contractors, rather than suing to be paid like employees. It could be a compromise that is better for everyone. Then again, it’s hard to imagine the suits who run corporate chains like Penthouse sitting down with hundreds of dancers to collectively negotiate the rules on a regular basis.

When the Lusty Ladies got the stripper labor rights movement rolling in 1997, they had a vision of how things were going to go. Today, most dancers aren’t psyched for unionization, but they sure as hell aren’t psyched to maintain the status quo, either. Given the number of lawsuits that are popping up across the country, strip club owners would do well to take steps to address rampant levels of exploitation. If they don’t, they could find themselves being forced to change the way they do business – in ways that may not actually benefit the majority of dancers.

www.inthesetimes.com/article/13089/in_s ... olidarity/

Wie die Lebenslage und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg die politische Einstellung bestimmt:
www.informationisbeautiful.net/blog-htm ... world.html

Studie Stripp-Clubs England:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=114172#114172

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 11.06.2012, 18:44

... Kooperative - Wohnprojekt - Austiegshilfe - Einstiegshilfe ...
Diskriminierunsfreies Leben und Abeiten

Lebensort Vielfalt
Berlin Charlottenburg

So wie es ein Altenheim für Sexworker in Mexiko City (2007) gibt,
und wie es eine Kooperative und SW Ausstiegsprojekt-Café Bar Can Do in Chiang Mai (2006) gibt, gibt es jetzt quasi beides zusammen für Homosexuelle, Transgender, Senioren (Behinderte/Demente) und andere in Berlin (2012):

www.lebensort-vielfalt.de

5 Mio Kauf und Umbau (125.000 Euro je Bewohner)

3 Mio von Berliner Klassenlotterie bezahlt (Bürgermeister Wovereit sitzt in der Stiftung)
2 Mio via Bankkredit auf die Berliner Schwulenberatung, die seit 30 Jahren erfolgreich sozial arbeitet und eine Etage im Haus bekommt.

Im EG Café-Restaurant ein Integrationsprojekt für Behinderte.

Pflege-WG mit 7 Plätzen (24h Pflegedienst extern).

24 Wohneinheiten 40-80m² für 11 Euro/m² für Senioren und jüngere, für Schwule, Frauen und TS... (davon 7 Sozialwohnungen).

40 Bewohner und 200 auf der Warteliste.

Internationales Interesse nach diesem Projekt der Berliner schwulen Community zur Nachahmung kommt in D erstaunlicherweise nicht von ähnlichen Initiativen, sondern von Immobilieninvestoren.

www.tvbvideo.de/video/d85aee9abbbs.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpU_nvbr9I[/youtube]

www.facebook.com/lebensort.vielfalt
http://blog.aidshilfe.de/2012/06/08/leben-in-vielfalt/
http://blog.aidshilfe.de/2011/09/05/gem ... -im-alter/

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 20.06.2012, 01:10

Mindestlohn für Cam-Sexworker:

Kink.com / KinkLive new payment scheme since 1. July 2012 without Minimum Wage in San Francisco, CA USA

Code: Alles auswählen

gross             worker   $/hour        $/4-hour shift
income            %     

old&#58;
kleiner$500       30        37,50        150 &#40;= minimum wage&#41;
größer $500       30-50  gr.37,50     gr.150

new&#58;
kleiner$300       30     kl.25,00     kl.100 &#40;max&#41;
       $300-1500  40        30,00-150    120-600
größer $    1500  50       187,50        750
__
gross income = Umsatz des Portals in 4 Stunden-Schicht
worker %     = Anteil Sexworker

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Mindestlohn werde abgeschafft, weil die Marktkonkurrenz und das Überleben des Portals es erforderten, behaupte die Geschäftsleitung
(withdrawing our flat rate and instilling a commission-only earning system, which makes our pay-out percentage rate much lower than other competitive cam sites ... department has been “operating at a loss for two years”).

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist ... lloway.php

Brief der organisierten Sexworker an ihren Arbeitgeber www.kink.com

http://maxineholloway.tumblr.com/post/2 ... cts-models

Vermittlungsfunktion im Sexworker Tarifstreit-Arbeitskampf:
http://swopbay.org/

Verdienstabrechnungsbeispiele Deutschland:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=17257#17257
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=94465#94465

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 20.06.2012, 01:25

Mit einem Filmprojekt gegen Ausbeuterische Arbeitsbedingungen in US Strip-Clubs:

License to Pimp Documentary

Vorschau und Finanzierungsaufruf für den Film, der erst noch produziert werde soll
(crowd sourcing = Finanzierung durch die Multitude, die Internet Community)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/himab/lice ... ocumentary

Bild

Bis zu 300 US$ je Arbeitstag müssen Sexworker als Stripper vor Arbeitsbeginn im Stripp-Club bezahlen, damit sie dort als Selbstständige arbeiten und auftreten dürfen...

Systeme von Strafzahlungen kosten zusätzlich Geld...

Forschungsergebnisse zu englischen Strip-Club-Bedingungen:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=114172#114172

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 22.06.2012, 18:18

Arbeitsrechtsurteil zugunsten der Stripperinnen in Anchorage:
Sie sind angestellt und haben Anrecht auf Mindestlohn und Überstundenbezahlung

Judge's ruling brings strippers' payday a little bit closer
Women must be paid for overtime, other hours they worked.

By CASEY GROVE
Anchorage Daily News
Published: June 21st, 2012 07:52 AM
Last Modified: June 21st, 2012 02:38 PM

A payday of nearly $150,000 could be coming for 3 Anchorage strippers after a judge's recent decision that the clubs in which they danced cheated the women out of back wages.

After legal wrangling that stretched over the better part of 6 years, last week's decision is a mixed bag for the women -- Shanna Thornton, Jennifer Prater and Heather Kidd -- who said they stripped to the tune of more than $324,000 [250.000 EUR] for which they hadn't been paid.

It wasn't tips from customers that was in dispute: The women claimed the clubs, the Crazy Horse Saloon and Fantasies on 5th Avenue, did not pay them for the hours they worked, charged them illegal fees and forced them to give cash they took in as tips to other employees, like DJs and "house moms."

"This isn't about how much money I make in tips," Prater told the Daily News in 2006. "This is about wage and hour laws. Just because of what we do, does not mean employers don't have to follow the law."

The clubs' owners, Jeanette Johnson at Crazy Horse http://crazyhorsesaloon.yolasite.com/ and Kathleen and Carol Hartman at Fantasies http://fantasieson5th.com , said they'd done nothing wrong and refused offers to reach a settlement, a lawyer for the strippers said. After nearly a half-dozen years of battling in state and federal court, the case came to a head in January with a four-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess.

Burgess' decision June 14 does not end the fight -- the defendants can still file motions for the judge to reconsider -- but it says the women should be paid for overtime and other hours they proved they had worked. The judge said the women were not due the fees and tips they said they were badgered into paying.

Among the reasons the strippers are owed money, Burgess wrote in his decision that the clubs' payment systems were set up to "shift the risk of poor business to, and impose the expenses of running the business on, the individual dancers as if they were independent contractors as opposed to employees and evade the requirements of the (Federal Labor Standards Act) and the (Alaska Wage and Hour Act)."

Mindestlohn für angestellte Arbeiter

A 1987 Alaska Supreme Court ruling defined strippers as club employees, not as independent contractors who control their own hours. Employees, by contrast, must be paid minimum wage and their tips cannot replace minimum wage, according to the law.

The decision says Thornton should receive $12,419.50 from Crazy Horse and $27,708.70 from Fantasies, and Prater and Kidd $20,380.35 and $88,879.99, respectively, from Crazy Horse.

Efforts Wednesday to reach the women or their lawyer were unsuccessful.

www.adn.com/2012/06/20/2513413/judges-r ... ppers.html

Beitrag von **Marc of Frankfurt** » 22.06.2012, 18:24

Muster-Urteil zugunsten einer Sexarbeiterin in Melbourne:
Sie hat ihren Bordellbetreiber verklagt, dass sie keinen Arbeitsschutz vor gewalttätigen Kundenübergriffen bekommen hat

Landmark case for the rights of sex workers in Victoria, Australia

In July 2011, a sex worker who worked in a Melbourne brothel engaged with WorkSafe Victoria to take action against her employer for putting her in an unsafe situation.

The Media coverage was pretty offensive. Here's an article written by the Age's Julia Medew. I know after reading it, the person the article was about was in tears. Here's her article:
www.theage.com.au/victoria/prostitute-t ... 1hc7n.html

Of course I'm wasn't going to take that lying down and wanted to write about all of the things Julia over looked. Here's was my response:
www.sexparty.org.au/index.php/news/medi ... n-victoria

Quelle: Male Sex Worker Christian Vega from sex worker union Scarlet Alliance:
http://christianbvega.blogspot.com.au/2 ... rkers.html

Dies ist ein bedeutsames Musterurteil, weil es auch um das Thema "Safer-only Arbeitsplatz" geht und um die Frage wie für einen Club geworben werden darf (Stichwort "tabulos").

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Chronik Schwulenbewegung

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Verhinderungsmechanismen gegen Bürger

Californien U.S.A.

Neuerscheinung "französisch only"

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World Charter 4 Prostitutes' Rights

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