Eugène Atget/WikimediaToday is “International Whores’ Day,” a day commemorating the 1975 occupation of the Church of St. Nizierof in Lyon, France, by more than 100 prostitutes. The event is considered to be the birth of the modern sex workers’ rights movement.

Here’s a good summary of the sit-in from the blog Prized and Reviled:
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