'Sex workers have influenced artists, culture and art. There’s sex worker culture.'
Sprinkle is now being featured in the forthcoming exhibitionopening September 28 at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York. The group show, which features over 200 artworks and objects, explores the history of queer sex work and its culture, art, and activism. Sprinkle is showing paraphernalia from her career in sex work, which includes business cards, Polaroids, and a “tit print,” among other things.
SPRINKLE: Not at all. People loved it. All my shows were packed, sold out. It was all the rage. The art world welcomed me with open arms. Of course, it was controversial in that some senators and government people called it “a sewer of depravity” and a live sex show, which it wasn’t at all []. But they didn’t see it. It was in the National Enquirer and there was a lot of controversy between the right-wing politicians trying to take away public funding for the arts, which they successfully did.
SPRINKLE: No, they’re losing ground. They’re not getting more rights. But Carol Leigh, also known as the Scarlot Harlot, who invented the term “sex work”—she’s also in this exhibition. I think many artists in the show are also sex workers, or artists who interact with sex workers. Veronica Vera, one of my best friends, is also in the show. She has an academy in New York,. We went through the AIDS crisis together, we did a lot of journalism.
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