The Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, passed in an 1980s era of gay panic, unfairly targets queer sex workers to this day. Meet the New Orleans activist working to get the law repealed—and to get its victims' felony records expunged.
Matt Nadel
Matt Nadel is a queer writer and filmmaker from Florida with a degree in American Studies from Yale. His work has appeared in New York Times OpDocs, The Palm Beach Post, Yale Herald, and Soft Punk, as well as several international film festivals. His most recent film, 120 YEARS, won Best Short Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival, the largest Black film fest in the U.S. Previously, Matt worked as a Documentary Journalism Fellow at the New Orleans Video Access Center.