Carol Leigh
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Carol Leigh, aka The Scarlot Harlot, born 1951 in New York City, is an artist, author, film maker, and prostitutes' rights activist. [1][2] She coined the term "Sex worker"[3] in a conference in 1978. [4] She currently chairs the Sex Worker Film and Arts festival and is the director of BAYSWAN, the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network.[5] She lives in San Francisco.She is bisexual.[6]
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- ^ Stephan Lemons (21 July 2000). "Sex with latex". Salon (magazine). Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ Alexandra Juhasz (2001). Women of vision: histories in feminist film and video. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 4, 13 and 342. ISBN 978-0-8166-3372-2. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ "Inaugural Hong Kong sex workers' film festival offers nuanced, diverse portrait of trade". Malaysia Star. AP. August 14, 2006. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ *Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Writings of Scarlot Harlot by Carol Leigh, 2004. ISBN 0-86719-584-3, p. 69
- ^ Nate Tabak (January 28, 2002). "Illicit Career of an Adult Escort Offers the Allure of Big Money with the Risk of Violence and Disease". Daily Cal. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=Pthxt1aCnFEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Unrepentant+whore&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SbuiUNKrJo-D0QHQkoGQBg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bisexual&f=false
- Gauntlet, Issue #7
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