Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc. Author: Ummni Khan. This article explores the reasons for this divergence. First, drawing on radical queer critique, I problematize this framing, arguing that the equality and rights-based victories for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans community did not necessarily benefit all of its members.
Part I of the article sets the socio-legal and political context, providing succinct overviews of key developments relating to gay and lesbian rights and of key developments relating to sex trade regulation, focusing primarily on the last fifty years.
I end with a consideration of the intersectionality between queerness and the sex trade, both in terms of subjectivities and non-normative sexual practices. For example, in , the United Kingdom issued the report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution often referred to as the Wolfenden report , its dual mandate suggesting an interpretive overlap between the issues at stake. In Canada, bawdy-house prohibitions have historically been applied against both gay men and sex workers, implying that the harms that flow from each are analogous.
See e. For the purposes of this article, I define cisgender and cissexual as non-trans β that is, people whose gender or sex identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. Criminal Code, SC β4, c 51, ss , I note that Hooper does not provide statistics regarding arrests pre- and post, so I am unable to verify the claim. Prostitution Reference, supra note 11 at Please note that barbara findlay chooses to have her name in lowercase. Transgender Characters on U.
It should be noted that this statute was modelled on the more extensive UK law β And with What Consequences? Spade,Normal Life, supra note 6.
