How Candida Royalle Set Out to Reinvent Porn

In 1979, a group called Women Against Pornography opened an office in what was then, in the organizers' view, the belly of the beast: Times Square.

In "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue," from 1999, the Black gay novelist Samuel R. Delany wrote elegiacally about how the seamy old Forty-second Street had fostered cross-class contact and welcomed sexual encounters.

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