— Kim KellyBy 1973, one of them had a name: Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics, or COYOTE. It was the first sex workers’ rights organization in U.S. history, and its charismatic founder, Margo St. James, believed that it was long past time to bring sex workers’ issues out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
Replicated under Fair Use from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.