Lara Roxx
Lara Roxx | |
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 Lara Roxx in 2007 during filming for the documentary film Inside Lara Roxx | |
| Born | Pascale Andrée Abitbol 5 June 1982 Laval, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 2 February 2020 [New York, New York]] |
| Website | pascaleisinsidelararoxx.wordpress.com |
Lara Roxx is a Canadian who became an inspiration and role model when after, March 2004, she became the first of three known individuals in four years to contract HIV while making a U.S. pornographic video. She was 21 years old when she became the first unmarried heterosexual woman, since the disease was first clinically observed in 1981, to publicly lend her voice and likeness to HIV/AIDS awareness. She is currently actively using her likeness to help break stigma and educate.
Career
Roxx became famous in 2004 at age 21, after being exposed to HIV while doing a pornographic scene with Darren James. She allegedly contracted the disease just two months after doing her first scene, a double anal.[1] Roxx said previously that she relied on the industry's HIV standards to ensure her safety.[2]
James and Roxx have been banned from any further porn production in the US. At the end of April 2004, it was confirmed that Jessica Dee and Miss Arroyo, after having worked with James, also tested positive for HIV.[3]
Roxx, upon learning about James' being HIV-positive, said, "It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn't to be trusted at all, because it obviously doesn't work," and "I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world."[2]
She is the subject of the Canadian documentary film Inside Lara Roxx, directed by Canadian filmmaker and photographer Mia Donovan, which explores Roxx's 2004 HIV infection and her life since the media coverage of this incident subsided.[1][4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Burnett, Richard (January 25, 2013). "Inside Lara Roxx: former Montreal adult-film star on the deadly price of porn fame". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- ^ a b "Lara Roxx: "I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world."". Adult Video News. 2004-04-17. Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
- ^ "Another First-Gen Woman Diagnosed as HIV-Positive". Adult Video News. 2004-05-05. Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
- ^ "Inside Lara Roxx". hotdocs.ca. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. May 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07.
External links
- Lara Roxx at IMDb
- Lara Roxx at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Lara Roxx at the Adult Film Database
- Taormino, Tristan (Apr 27, 2004). "Porn Faces Reality". Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2008-03-05.
- Gravenor, Kristian (2004). "Post-porn Plans". Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on June 14, 2004.