In the short documentary “CANS Can’t Stand,” by Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka, activists work to overturn a baldly prejudiced law aimed at L.G.B.T.Q. people.
With the CANS law, “it wasn’t about policing a certain kind of conduct,” the director Matt Nadel said. “It was about policing a certain kind of person.”
In 1982, a local news station in New Orleans broadcast a documentary called “Cruisin’ the Streets,” which aimed a prurient and dehumanizing gaze at gay and trans sex workers in the French Quarter. The same year, swept up in a moral panic over prostitution in the city, Louisiana’s state legislature passed draconian measures that explicitly targeted the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
has been stripped of some of its more devastating consequences, the law remains in place, and those convicted before 2011 still have felonies on their records. In 2021, Cooper testified in favor of a bill that would fully decriminalize sex work in Louisiana, and, though it did not pass, she remains tenacious in her advocacy. “My goal is to get the law eradicated,” she says in one interview.
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