bayswan(the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network) is a collaborative project based in the San Francisco Bay Area providing information about sex workers' rights and issues. Our primary purpose is to form a network of social service organizations, service providers, sex industry workers and individuals advocating on behalf of sex industry workers.

bayswanorganizes to improve working conditions, increase safety and services for workers, and to eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within the sex industry.

bayswan's web site and server is specifically geared towards sex workers as well as activists, students and faculty interested in our issues of focus while offering web space for relevant organisations and groups. We invite you to visit a few of their informative and entertaining resident web sites...


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penet PENet

The Prostitutes' Education Network is an information service about social policy, legislative and cultural issues as they effect prostitutes and other sex workers in the U.S. and internationally.

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eda EDA

The Exotic Dancers Alliance is a collective group of self-identified female exotic dancers collaborating together to obtain adequate working conditions and civil rights within the sex industry.

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swfest SWFest

The San Francisco Sex Workers' Film and Video Festival was established to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker film and video makers in contemporary cinema and to screen works about sex workers and the sex industries from around the world.

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.BAYSWAN is sponsored by the Exotic Dancer's Alliance and the Coalition on Prostitution and Street Outreach Services of the Institute For Community Health Outreach. ©1997 notlimited