Gloria Leonard

Career According to pornographic film historian Ashley West, publisher of The Rialto Report, Leonard worked for a Wall Street brokerage firm in the 1960s before moving on to work in public relations, including a stint writing copy for Elektra Records in New York's West Village. The Trouble With Young Stuff, All About Gloria Leonard (both of which were written and directed by Joseph W. Sarno), Fortune Smiles, Maraschino Cherry and Taboo: American Style. She was also president of the AFVAA in 1986.

Feminism Leonard was a feminist and free speech advocate, and debated on the issues of pornography and censorship and their impact on the women's movement at several colleges and universities. and Adult Video News (AVN) Hall of Fame. In 2002, she was also inducted into the Porn Block of Fame.

Personal life Leonard was Jewish and raised in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. The meeting was rumored to have led to an affair between the two, but it did not last long.

Later on, Leonard was approached by a group of movie distributors from the Midwest to finance what was described as "the world's first million-dollar pornographic movie."