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NAKED PROFITS.
San Francisco has led the sexual revolution since 1964, the year a teen-age dancer named Carol Doda caused a sensation by appearing onstage at the Condor night club in a Rudi Gernreich swimsuit that lacked a top. In subsequent months, the sensation grew, as Doda pioneered the silicone-injection craze and ballooned to a size 44-DD. Before long, a sailor in North Beach could buy a cone at a topless ice-cream stand, eat it while getting a topless shoe shine, then take in a show starring "a topless mother of eight."
Feminism came to San Francisco early, too. In the Nixon era, women of evolved consciousness picketed the Condor, claiming that Doda was being exploited. ...
- Exotic dancing and unionizing: the challenges of feminist and antiracist...
- Magazine article from: SIECUS Report Brooks, Siobhan March 22, 2005 700+ words
...1996, the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco made history...place at the Lusty Lady, it is important...occurred. San Francisco, a predominantly...working at the Lusty Lady while I was...Studies major at San Francisco State University...
- SAM RETHINKS SHOWING OF LUSTY LADY PHOTOS.(Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Hackett, Regina April 9, 1998 700+ words
Strippers at the Lusty Lady will have to wait awhile to see photos...discreet images from her book, ``The Lusty Lady,'' published last November by Scalo...documenting her five years working at the Lusty Lady, which is a women-run peep show...
- Strippers don union label Dancers of Lusty Lady join Service Employees
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel September 1, 1996 700+ words
...served its purpose for nude dancers at the Lusty Lady Theatre. The women who wiggle nightly...and consistent." The employees of the Lusty Lady, a fixture in the city's red light...later voted to decertify that union. Lusty Lady general manager June Cade, who had publicly...
- Lusty Lady takes off more than Boeing (photo).(Aerospace News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 10, 2009 700+ words
Downtown Seattle's legendary peep show theater, The Lusty Lady, is known for its clever marquee messages. For example, when the Seattle Art Museum's Annex opened next door, the nude theater...
- Lusty Lady.(OutinFront)(Lori Michaels)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Curve Kay, Sheryl May 1, 2007 700+ words
It's hard to look at Lori Michaels, the self-billed Dyke Diva, and not think of T and A. But there's way more than meets the eye: She not only headlines the extraordinarily hot Me & the Girls dance and singing group, but is also the founder and president of Reach Out, Inc. Michaels started the
- The belle of Amherst played as a lusty lady.(Reviews)(Emily Dickinson's...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) March 3, 2004 700+ words
Byline: THEATER REVIEW By Fred Crafts The Register-Guard This is not Emily Dickinson, the tight-lipped iron maiden glowering defiantly out of a splotchy photograph. Nor is this Emily Dickinson, the wisp in white - the timid "Belle of Amherst" - murmuring turgid poetry. No, this is Emily Dickinson,
- In San Francisco, some strippers are trying to unionize. (Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Goldston, Linda August 9, 1993 700+ words
...Organization for Women in San Francisco. (EDITORS: STORY CAN...started by Margo St. James in San Francisco years ago. ``Men just...one of the managers of the Lusty Lady on Kearny Street in San Francisco, the club considered the...
- Strippers to Picket San Francisco Club over Pay Cuts.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 2, 2002 700+ words
...2--In what may be San Francisco's most alluring union...outside the all-nude Lusty Lady Theatre on Kearny Street. Dancers at the Lusty Lady unionized in 1996, capturing...s pinch, and at the Lusty Lady, that means three separate...
