Kathleen Creedon

San Antonio’s red-light district has a storied past, but sex workers are still here today — working online, in the streets and in clubs.

Though the goal for some new laws is to minimize sex trafficking, they make it harder for consensual sex work to operate above ground safely.

How do changing laws impact the day-to-day lives of sex workers? And where is the line drawn between work and trafficking?

According to local lore, one of the madams of San Antonio's red-light district stumbled upon a street preacher one day and decided to dedicate her life and her work to God.

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.

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 ordinance. Soon after she was deemed insane and put in jail. Thanks to digitized records, we now know how her story ended.

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 in Episode 1 of "Running Red-Lights."

This Thursday, people will celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, honored annually and internationally to celebrate trans and nonbinary people.

February is celebrated across the nation as Black History Month, and in San Antonio, that history runs deep.

Just like last year, bottled water was one of the first items to clear off the shelves of many local stores.