In an extract from her book ‘Queer Intentions’, journalist Amelia Abraham joins the first ever sex worker float at Amsterdam Pride.
Following a tumultuous break up with her ex-girlfriend, journalist Amelia Abraham found herself faced with a question: at a time when LGBTQ+ people in the West increasingly have the right to marry and start a family, does access to these traditional institutions complement or contradict the nature of what it means to be queer?
Luckily, I knew some Dutch sex workers, having done a story on sex workers’ rights in Amsterdam the year before. Two of the women in the article identified as queer, so I asked whether they could help me get onto the boat. “You need speak to Lyle,” Hella, one of the sex workers, told me. She would be on the boat, she said, but Lyle was one of the organisers and he had “a lot of opinions” about the inclusion of sex workers in mainstream LGBTQ+ rights.
After leaving Lyle a few missed calls, I was about to give up when I located the people I was looking for. One of them was Martin -- who ran P&G292, the catchily titled government think tank that had coughed up the cash for the sex worker canal boat -- and the other was Sharon, our choreographer for the day.
I chatted to a beautiful man called Ricardo, who told me he was from Bonaire, a Dutch colony in the Caribbean, but had moved to the Netherlands to study tourism. I also got acquainted with Foxy, a pink-haired porn star from Utrecht, and as Sharon started coordinating us into formation, we decided to crack open the white wine I’d brought.
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