Alison Rose’s Reviews > Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 > Status Update

"In San Francisco's North Beach district, prostitutes & lesbians shared a common turf ... Indeed, SF's history of prostitution foreshadows the ways lesbians in the city began to use & fight for public space. Prostitutes were SF's first female entrepreneurs, & prostitution remained central to SF's economic development from the Gold Rush through the turn of the century."

[Sex work is and has always been work.]