...Katie M. Hemphill Abstract This article examines the historical origins of the term red-light district . It argues that red lights became associated with prostitution in the United States not only because of red’s popularity in the decor of nighttime businesses but also because of color symbolism...

..., Features, presents longer essays that interrogate the terms sex work , demand , white slavery , red-light district , restricted area , and decriminalization . Finally, Curated Spaces explores the history of the red umbrella as a visual term that has developed as a global symbol for sex worker rights...

... the legacies of former systems of state-regulated prostitution in the development of Sperrbezirke and regional variations in restricted-area regulations since the 1960s. It examines their relation to red-light districts through regulations on brothels and tolerance zones, as well as the common associations...

... in the red-light district. 64 According to the Health Department, the greater red-light district spanned over one hundred blocks, but Stingaree was the most popular district for prostitution—spanning a twelve-block radius. 65 Bellon’s hand-drawn map in 1909 explicitly locates and names popular saloons...

... THE PAST IN PRINT/259 addresses of over fifteen hundred known brothels between 1790 and 1870, he reveals that the city never had a ”red light” district, which was tolerated by respectable society and monitored by the police, as was previously thought. The police did little to prevent...

... of the Arno River downstream from the city center, was a mix of industrial slum and red-­light district in the mid-­sixteenth century. One of the centers of the wool industry, it was home and workplace for men like Marco di Andrea Finocchio and others drawn to Florence from across Italy and Europe...

... implications for work: the removal of prohibitions against advertising and brothels would allow streetwalkers to move indoors and participate in small worker cooperatives. The ECP even claimed that decriminalization would eliminate the need for red-light districts and the nuisance they imposed on neighbors...

... of sex workers. In 1978 Take Back the Night marched through North Beach, San Francisco’s red-light district. Some feminists carried signs condemning the performers who stood outside the clubs as targets of this invasion. A decade later my video, Sex Workers Take Back the Night (1990), chronicled...

... officials, and the military. Red-light districts in Honolulu had survived a Progressive Era campaign to close them down, and flourished in the face of the World War II-era May Act until late 1944, when an emerging new political elite succeeded in closing the houses.I3 Some of the reasons...

... in our own streets, and nowhere is that more appropriate than here on Forty-­ Second Street — Times Square — the pornography capital of America.”1 The crowd that had marched through the world’s most famous red- ­light district was rallying in another grim public space behind the New York Public...

... of street-based sex work, and their numbers soared in suburbs adjacent to the red-light district. Carloads of noisy onlookers were drawn to these same areas, which were undergoing rapid gentrification. A small group of residents, with the backing of police, then pressured the state government to amend...

... clientele in the New York Avenue red-­light district since the mid-­1960s.17 Yet in their brief before the Alcohol Control Board, the Franklin Square Association used black queer experience and testimony against the bar’s owners. Franklin Square Associa- tion lawyers called metropolitan police sergeant...

... by carousing in the Cocoa Grove red light district of Panama City, outside the U.Scontrolled Canal Zone. Swaggering and disorderly, the crowd clashed violently with the Panamanian police, resulting in one dead, twenty injured, and others arrested, all U.S. citizens. The U.S. State Department was quick...

... pace with capitalist developmentselsewhere. Like other trades, merchan- dised sex has been consolidated. The corporate sex industry, in Corbin’s words, ”pimps at a distance.” Because they have acquired and consoli- dated all the real estate in the red-light districts, the industry’s new...

... HISTORY REVIEW restored Fanueil Hall market and waterfront. Previously an old public market and red light district serving working people from around the city, it has been transformed into a monument of consumer culture featuring indoor shopping malls, chic boutiques, gourmet foods, and ethnic...

... faced difficulties in seeing one another or in visiting the Pelourinho, a UNESCO World Heritage Center and former red-­light district where both had contracted AIDS.1 Indio thus brightened notably when neighbors shouted greetings as we approached Gaginho’s home. He exclaimed in response, as beer...

...Carol Quirke Abstract Local 65 United Warehouse Workers Union (1933–1987), which became District 65 United Auto Workers, promoted photography with a camera club, and a member-edited newspaper New Voices, featuring photographs taken by members. This left-led, New York City distributive industry...

... or experience the latter.”58 Transgressive expressions of gender and sexuality were key targets of their moral crusade. Nelson placed women’s “lack of clothes” alongside the pervasion of the speakeasy, gambling, “the arts of the underworld,” red-­light districts, and polygamy. A Miami pastor claimed...

... connotations about maleness different from the more usual "manliness." These reformulations frequently were frag- mented and contradictory. For example, increasing numbers of mid- dle-class men frequented urban red-light districts, yet many remained confused and ambivalent about the meaning...

... of the late ’30s. This minor episode points to the possible existence of a functional alliance extending from the Politburo downward into a close work- ing relationship between a prestigious Captain of Industry and the oblast party leadership. It also sheds light on the latent animosity generated...