Audacia Ray

Video of sex workers and drug users disrupting opening press conference at the International AIDS Conference in DC.

From the GUARDIAN:

…activists invaded a pre-opening briefing in protest at laws that forbid sex workers and drug users from entering the USA. The conference is being held in the US for the first times in two decades as a result of President Barack Obama lifting the ban on entry for people with HIV, but those in some of the most affected population have still not been able to attend.

A rival conference of sex workers in Kolkata has been accredited by the International Aids Society which organises the Aids conference as a “hub”. Protesters at the Washington Convention Center sprang up out of the audience chanting “What about the sex workers?” and “Nothing about us without us.”