Don’t let the name throw you. “Live Nude GirlsUnite” is a documentary film about the first exotic dancerslabor organization in San Francisco, and will be shown on Thursdayin the Redwood Room of the University Union.

This film is part of the Lunch Time movies series, a monthlyfilm that is sponsored by the Woman’s Resource Center.

Rookie producer/co-director Julie Query makes her debut in themovie industry with this artistic and comedic break-throughperformance. Query takes the audience along on her journey as sheattempts to organize the first and only union of strippers in theUnited States.

The Lusty Lady, the club that sets the stage for the movie,isn’t a strip club with a pole dancing stage and privaterooms for lap dances. Instead, the peep show is of womendancing and teasing onlookers behind the glass-mirrored closet-likerooms.

Customers are individually entertained, paying a quarter forevery 15-second snap shot through the waist level looking glasscubicle. Dancers attract clients by teasing them and leading themto a viewing room where the client looks on.

The dancer works through her shift, repeating this process overand over until she punches the clock and goes home.

Three of the peep show’s 13 rooms were equipped withone-way mirrors, in which the clients could see the dancers, butthe dancers could not see the clients.

These rooms caused consequences for the dancers. Clients wouldvideotape their private show and use it for amateurpornography.

After asking management to remove the one-way mirrors in thethree rooms, and being told that unpaid porn star fame was anoccupational hazard they had to deal with, the dancers turned tothe Exotic Dancers Alliance (EDA), a group set up by the plaintiffsin the lawsuit against the Brothers’ O’FarrellTheatre.

With diplomacy on their side, the group of dancers began theirplans to unionize. Once the management learned of this threat, theyquickly removed the one-way mirrors, but still refused to recognizethe group’s right to unionize.

Brought up with Jewish heritage, Query was forced to hide herlifestyle from her mother, a prominent opponent of the taxation ofexotic dancers. “Live Nude Girls Unite” shows politicsand peep show values coming together in a battle for representationas a union and against the exploitation of women’s workerunions.

Query has been collecting and working in the film business since1993, as an associate producer for the film “Dykes, Camera,Action,” a film about lesbian media activism. Query alsofounded the Queer Film and Video Festival at the University ofOregon.

The film shows the difficulties and hardships that strippers inthe Bay area went through in order to become a labor union. In adramatic fashion, the film is an entertaining look into the 1990sunderworlds of feminism, the trade of turning tricks, the effectsof prostitution in society and the strain placed on themother-daughter characters of the film.

Set in San Francisco during 1998, the focus of the film is onthe issue of how women’s work is exploited in the work forceof today’s world and how the government plans to implement afederal tax on their profession.

“Live Nude Girls Unite” is the last of four filmsput on by the Women’s Resource Center for the lunch timehour.

Though this film runs just over an hour, it provides an insightinto the underground world of exotic dancers and the troubles theyface in trying to gain union recognition for their cause.

The Women’s Resource Center has put on films all throughthe semester all films that are concerned with women’s issuesand interest.

In an effort to bring about awareness of women’s rights,the Resource Center offers informal discussion after each of themovies has been shown, where people can voice their opinions orconcerns about the issue women face in the films.

What: “Live Girls Unite” When:Thursday

Times: Noon

Where: Library 1010

Tickets: Free, Lunch Time MovieSeries.