ABSTRACT
In this chapter, D’Adamo analyzes the relationship between sex work and LGBTQ communities. Due overlapping systems of oppression, queer people have been disproportionately disenfranchised from formal forms of labor and thus the sex trade has been a backbone of the story of LGBTQ survival. This chapter looks at just three of the many ways to understand trading sex: 1) as an experience of policing, 2) as an experience of economic justice, and 3) as an experience of sex. D’Adamo then situates the issues faced by sex workers as central to LGBTQ liberation and the unfinished queer agenda.
