Running Red-Lights
“Running Red-Lights” is a limited series podcast about the untold history of sex work in San Antonio and the women who ran the industry, but who weren’t allowed to make history.
We talked with librarians, pastors, archivists and sex workers to help uncover San Antonio’s red-light district. It was one of the busiest in the country.
City government, the military, the church — all institutions that still loom large in the city today — played a role in the making and breaking of the district. But the madams’ stories are mostly unknown. Today the sex industry operates underground. History will repeat itself if we lose these stories forever.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 5
- Years Active
- 2022
Survival to security
How do changing laws impact the day-to-day lives of sex workers? And where is the line drawn between work and trafficking?
00:22:23 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Was Mary Volino saved?
Mary Volino was a successful madam of a San Antonio brothel in the late 19th century. One day, she decided to change her business into a rescue home.
00:16:06 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
What happened to Emelia Garza?
A brothel-owner named Emelia Garza was arrested in San Antonio for not paying licensing fees. She challenged the city, and won — forcing officials to alter their charter and rewrite the bawdy house o…
00:16:25 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
Long nights, slow burn
San Antonio was once home to one of the busiest red-light districts in the country. But exactly how big was the city’s red-light district? And how did it get that way? That’s what we try to find out …
00:15:52 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Introducing: Running Red-Lights
“Running Red-Lights” is a limited series podcast about the untold history of sex work in San Antonio and the women who ran the industry, but who weren’t allowed to make history.
00:01:50 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
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