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The North American Task Force on "Prostitution" is formed.

Date: 1979

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The task force is formed as "a network of sex workers, sex workers' rights organizations, and individuals and organizations that support the rights of sex workers to organize on their own behalf, work safely and without legal repression, travel without legal restrictions, have families and raise children, and enjoy the same rights, responsibilities, and privileges [sic] as other people" (Alexander, n.d.).