In the late 1970’s these transvestites worked as prostitutes on the tiny streets that climb up the hill above the main Boulevard in Pigalle, the red-light district in Paris, known for night life, cabarets, and music halls. They took drugs, shooting up until they passed out, and they drank heavily. They were low-class prostitutes who everyone in the neighborhood knew and accepted. This was before AIDS and before the laws that try to keep prostitution out of sight. Paris, Pigalle, 1978-1979.
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