Scarlot Harlot Video Festival Scarlot Harlot AKA Carol Leigh

This 50 second trailer is from the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. The Festival was established in 1999 to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker artists and filmmakers and to show work about sex workers and sex industries from around the world. The Sex Worker Festival provides an opportunity to recognize and honor prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers who have historically been a dynamic part of arts communities. The Festival includes performance events, parties and art exhibitions as well as screenings. The 2007 Festival is held in conjunction with the Desiree Alliance San Francisco West Coast Convergence, a sex worker conference, taking place at The Women's Building July 19th and 20th.This year marks our 5th biennial event and the response by sex workers has been greater than ever before.

This is a music video from Scarlot Harlot's TV series 'Whore in The Gulf,' during the first Gulf war. In response to the networks' censorship and the nationalistic zeal, Leigh produced weekly coverage the Bay Area anti-war movement during the Gulf War. In the series San Francisco protesters discussed world peace, the growth of fascism in America, and activism in the nineties. Peace-positive propaganda, CNN...revised and improved. SUNREICH, SUNSETUP, a music video featuring Scarlot Harlot and Barbara Bush plays to the tune of Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on a Roof. Note to Harry Belafonte fans: Harry happened to be seated next to Barbara Bush at an event, however he was a dedicated humanitarian and no war monger. This was an inadvertent reference! Screened at AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE 'S NATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, FILM ARTS FESTIVAL (S.F.), WOW CAFE (N.Y.) (Music video is 4.30. Series is 30 min. /4 episodes-1991)

This remarkable trio called the Yeastie Girlz from 1988 were at the forefront of new modes of musical performance. This clip comes from Scarlot Harlot's Die Yuppie Scum, named after another Yeastie Girlz song. In this safe sex rap the Girlz explain the necessity of condom use. The movie, winner 'Best Documentary at Athens International Film Festival,' was a documentary of the 1988 Anarchist Conference in San Francisco. Visit yeastiegirlz.com for more info.

Safe Sex Slut is a music video, made in 1987, expressing the frustration and challenges of changing ones sexual habits in the wake of the AIDS crisis. This video is part of a longer collection of music videos and comedy bits.

Mom says "Use a prophylcatic" Mom's politically correct advice on safe sex.

80s Safe Sex Anthem, 3 min music video about frustration in the AIDS crisis.