Aug. 30, 1997: 25 years ago, Aug 29 1997, after over a year of organizing workers at The [...]

25 years ago, Aug 29 1997, after over a year of organizing workers at The Lusty Lady in San Francisco officially unionized under the sponsorship of the Exotic Dancers Alliance and Service Employees International Union, becoming one of the only union strip clubs in the US

With vastly improved working conditions, one workers said she felt that she “had died and gone to hooker heaven.” In 2003, the club was turned into worker owned cooperative, and became known as the “World’s Only Unionized Worker Owned Peep Show Co-Op.”

In 2013, the club closed its doors. Lusty Lady dancers, sex workers, and supporters held a theatrical funeral procession, parading through North Beach to celebrate their decades of work and struggle