On this day
11
January

Eva Le Gallienne, Carol Leigh

Born: Eva Le Gallienne (1899), Carol Leigh (1951)

Born on this day

11JanBorn 1899127th birthday

Eva Le Gallienne

A Broadway star at 21, she gave it up to found a theatre for everyone – and called love between women “the most beautiful thing in the world”.

11JanBorn 195175th birthday

Carol Leigh

As the “Scarlot Harlot”, she coined the term “sex work” – and brought humour and safer-sex messages to the early AIDS protests in San Francisco.