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1915:
Maimie Pizner’s Montreal Mission for Friendless Girls Opens
1949:
Curaçao Opens Campo Alegre Brothel
15 Aug
1966:
Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
28 Jun
1969:
Stonewall Riot
1970:
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries found STAR House
16 Dec
1971:
New York Conference on Prostitution
1 May
1973:
COYOTE Founded in California
28 Oct
1974:
First Annual Hooker’s Ball Held in San Francisco
1977:
Better End All Vicious Erotic Repression (BEAVER) Founded
1 Jan
1979:
Carol Leigh coins the term “sex work”
1 Jan
1979:
North American Task Force on Prostitution Founded
1982:
Alliance for the Safety of Prostitutes Formed in Vancouver
1987:
COIN Founded in Dominican Republic
1 Jan
1990:
BAYSWAN Founded
1 May
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1 Sep
1993:
The Exotic Dancers Alliance is Formed
1994:
Stichting Maxi Linder Association Founded in Suriname
10 Mar
1994:
PACE Society Founded
1995:
First Sex Workers Congress in Dominican Republic
1 Apr
1995:
Stella Forms in Montreal
27 Oct
1995:
PEERS Forms in Victoria, Canada
1996:
La Coalition forms in Montreal
1 Jan
1996:
1996: Margo St. James Runs for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
1 Nov
1996:
MODEMU Founded
1 Jan
1997:
Sex Workers’ Art Show Begins
1 Apr
1997:
The Lusty Lady Unionises
7 May
1999:
Launch of The Sex Worker Film Festival
2 Jun
1999:
The St. James Infirmary openes its doors in San Francisco
1 Dec
2001:
Sex Workers Project Founded
1 Jan
2003:
SASOD Forms in Guyana
13 Oct
2003:
SWOP-USA Founded
5 Nov
2003:
Serial Killer Gary Ridgeway Pleads Guilty
17 Dec
2003:
The First International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
15 Mar
2005:
$pread Magazine Launched
18 May
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22 May
2005:
Stella’s Forum XXX Held in Montreal
2006:
IAC Toronto
1 Jan
2006:
District of Columbia Creates “Prostitution Free Zones”
9 Jul
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12 Jul
2006:
Desiree Alliance Hold Their First National Conference in Las Vegas
1 Apr
2007:
USAID Director Responsible for Anti-Prostitution Pledge Exposed as a Client
17 Feb
2008:
POWER Forms in Ottawa
4 Nov
2008:
Proposition K Goes to the Ballot in San Francisco
4 Sep
2010:
Craiglist’s “Adult Services” Shut Down
27 Sep
2010:
BC Missing Women Investigation Set Up
28 Jun
2011:
Mandatory Sex Offender Registration for Solicitation Struck Down in Louisiana
1 Jun
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1 Apr
2012:
San Francisco Ends Practice of Using Condoms as Evidence
9 Jul
2012:
The Global Commission on HIV and the Law Calls for the Removal of Criminal Laws Around Sex Work
13 Sep
2012:
Death of Robin Few
4 Oct
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6 Oct
2012:
Sex and Justice Conference Held in Ann Arbor
20 Jun
2013:
US Supreme Court Declares Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath Unconstitutional
30 Aug
2013:
Jamaican Sex Workers Hold a Conference and Issue a Declaration Demanding Their Rights
20 Dec
2013:
The Bedford Decision, Canada
12 May
2014:
NYPD Bans Use of Condoms as Evidence in Some Prostitution Arrests
21 Jul
2014:
SASOD Receives the Red Ribbon Award