Queen’s birthday honours: damehood for ex-sex worker

Campaigner Catherine Healy says she ‘never imagined this day would come’

Catherine Healy
Catherine Healy making a keynote speech at a symposium on sex work hosted by the English Collective of Prostitutes at the Houses of Parliament
(Image credit: English Collective of Prostitutes)

A former sex worker has become a dame in the Queen’s latest birthday honours list.

Catherine Healy was put forward for the honour by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in recognition of her work to decriminalise prostitution in the country.

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