Outside a dive bar advertising topless dancers on a recent Friday night in North Hollywood, a dancer who goes by her stage name, Reagan, sees her cue.
Before a car full of patrons can enter the parking lot of Star Garden, she cozies up to the driver’s side window. She tells the group of four men why the bar — her former workplace — doesn’t deserve their business.
“We do want to dance. We love it in there,” Reagan tells the friends. But, turning on the flirt, she encourages them to instead dance with her co-workers on the sidewalk. “We’re fighting for safer working conditions.”
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