While Query had no problem coming out as a lesbian to her mother, she lied about her work as a stripper. Wallace has long been a leader in addressing the health and safety issues of prostitutes. On New York's unforgiving streets, she travels in a van, delivering health services and distributing aids such as condoms. Wallace also takes her message to conferences around the world. Query reports that a disproportionately high number, six to eight of the 75 women working at the Lusty Lady, are Jewish lesbians.
Jewish women have less to lose.
But when customers inquire about her ethnic background, Query invents a guise rather than reveal her Jewishness. Query belongs to Reform Congregation Sha'ar Zahav and Independent Congregation Keneset HaLev in San Francisco. She majored in psychology and minored in black and Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College in New York. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.