Oregon will distribute $600,000 in coronavirus relief funding to sex workers, report says

Washington Post ^

[springwater13]

Oregon officials will make nearly $600,000 in federal funding available to local strippers and sex workers of color who have lost income because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Oregonian reported.

The grant will provide up to $1,600 for rent, $500 for utilities and $150 for Internet services to 75 people. An additional 200 applicants will receive a mail-in coronavirus test and a test for sexually transmitted infections, as well as health products including face masks, hand sanitizer and pulse oximeters.

Haymarket Pole Collective, a Portland-based organization that advocates for Black and Indigenous adult-entertainment workers, will administer the grant to people who earn money “using their or other people’s sexuality to financially assist themselves,” Cat Hollis, Haymarket’s founder, told the Oregonian. She said Black, Indigenous and transgender applicants, as well as those who are homeless or live with minor dependents, will receive priority.

[jdsteel]

Waiting for the “that sucks” jokes....

[Old Yeller]

Only the colored ones get it?

[Twotone]

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[springwater13]

That’s racist. Why don’t the white sex workers out of work get money too?

[Seruzawa]

[metmom]

They should then get real jobs.

There are plenty of places hiring.

[DannyTN]

Oregon officials will make nearly $600,000 in federal funding available to local strippers and sex workers of color who have lost income

Questions:

• What about local strippers and sex workers who were white?
• Did white sex workers already collect benefits?
• Why is this linmited to sex workers of color?
• Were they racist before or are they being racist now?
• How many people in Oregon are sex workers?
• How many are sex workers of color?
• What percent of people in Oregon are sex workers?

[farmguy]

Sounds like conflict of interest for kamala

[maddog55]

Oregon officials will make nearly $600,000 in federal funding available to local strippers and sex workers of color who have lost income because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Oregonian reported.

Looks like Kamala may get a rebate !

[Jewbacca]

“local strippers and sex workers of color “

So white strippers and whores were not affected?

Or is this all strippers, regardless of color, and just black whores?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The grant will provide up to $1,600 for rent, $500 for utilities and $150 for Internet services to 75 people.

I'll bet there are more than 75 sex workers of color in Oregon. What about the rest?

[Jewbacca]

“Sounds like conflict of interest for kamala”

ROFLMAO.

[humblegunner]

$600,000 in federal funding available to local strippers and sex workers of color

Code words and dog whistles.

It's Qanon who will get the money.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Well, my ex lives out there, and she was a ‘Ho, so I guess she is getting some funding...

[little jeremiah]

I want OR’s votes to be examined.

[PGR88]

It’s not my work, but it is a hobby.

[Citizen Soldier]

Just when you think Oregon can’t get any crazier.......

[circlecity]

$600,000. So if there are 600 prostitutes and strippers total, the most each could get is $1000. And I’m sure there’s a lot more than that. And my bet is that at least half gets skimmed off the top as graft. A Federal grant. Biden wants to piss away another 2 trillion down this rathole on COVID relief. This economic house of cards cannot be sustained.

[VeniVidiVici]

She said Black, Indigenous and transgender applicants, as well as those who are homeless or live with minor dependents, will receive priority.

Not a lawyer but seems to me that since this is FEDERAL money they can't specify who the money goes to.