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- Vito Russo (born July 11, 1946, New York City - died November 7, 1990, New York City) was an American LGBT activist, film historian and author who is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised edition 1987). Russo developed his material following screenings of camp films shown as fundraisers for the early gay rights organization Gay Activists Alliance. He traveled throughout the country from 1972 to 1982, delivering The Celluloid Closet as a live lecture presentation with film clips at colleges, universities, and small cinemas such as the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco. In both the book and in the lecture/film clip presentation, he related the history of gay and lesbian moments -- and the treatment of gay and lesbian characters -- in American and foreign films of the past. In 1983, Russo wrote, produced, and co-hosted a series focusing on the gay community called Our Time for WNYC-TV. This series featured the nation's first GLBT hard news and documentary video segment produced and directed by social behaviorist D. S. Vanderbilt. Russo's concern over how LGBT people were presented in the popular media led him to co-found the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a watchdog group that monitors LGBT representation in the mainstream media and presents the annual GLAAD Media Awards. The Vito Russo Award is named in his memory and is presented to an openly gay or lesbian member of the media community for their outstanding contribution in combating homophobia. Russo was also actively involved in the AIDS direct action group ACT UP. Russo appeared in the 1989 Academy Award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt as a "storyteller," relating the life and death of his lover Jeffrey Sevcik. In 1990 Vito Russo spent a year in California at the University of California, Santa Cruz, teaching a class, also entitled "The Celluloid Closet". He enjoyed being a professor, spending lecture breaks smoking and joking with his students. Russo died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. His work was posthumously brought to television in the 1996 HBO documentary film The Celluloid Closet, narrated by Lily Tomlin. After his death there was a memorial in Santa Cruz put on by students and colleagues. There were testimonials about how inspirational he had been and en masse, the group sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in his memory. A documentary on the life of Vito Russo is being developed by Los Angeles production company Automat Pictures and producer Jeffrey Schwarz. A family approved biography of Vito's life, written by Michael Schiavi, entitled "Celluloid Activist: The Life And Times Of Vito Russo" will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press and is due out in the fall of 2010.
- Vito Russo war ein US-amerikanischer Autor, Drehbuchautor, Filmhistoriker und LGBT-Aktivist. Russo schrieb 1981 das Buch The Celluloid Closet. Das Material zum Buch entnahm er seinen eigenen Filmen, die er in den frühen Jahren der LGBT-Bewegung in den Vereinigten Jahren für die Organisation Gay Activists Alliance gedreht hatte. In seinem Buch hält er die Geschichte der frühen Lesben- und Schwulenbewegung in den Vereinigten Staaten fest. 1983 schrieb und produzierte Russo eine Serie mit dem Titel Our Time für WNYC-TV. Russos Wahrnehmung über die negative Art und Weise, wie LGBT-Menschen in den US-amerikanischen Medien dargestellt wurden, veranlasste ihn, die Organisation Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) zu gründen. Diese Organisation beobachtet die Mediendarstellung von LGBT-Themen und -Personen und vergibt jährlich den GLAAD Media Awards. Zur Erinnerung an Vito Russo wurde der Vito Russo Award gestiftet, der jährlich an offen lebende LGBT-Personen in den Medien vergeben wird, die sich im Kampf gegen Homophobie engagiert haben. Russo war auch aktives Mitglied in der Organisation Act Up, die sich dem Kampf gegen Aids widmete. 1989 erschien Russo in der Academy Award gekrönten Dokumentation Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, in der er die Geschichte seines Lebensgefährten Jeffrey Sevcik schildert. 1990 starb Russo an den Folgen von AIDS. Nach seinem Tod zeigte der Fernsehsender HBO 1995 den Dokumentarfilm The Celluloid Closet, der auf seinem Buch basiert. Sprecherin ist Lily Tomlin.
- Russo ha raccolto il materiale per il suo libro curando le proiezioni di film camp per raccogliere fondi per la Gay Activists Alliance, una delle prime organizzazioni sorte per tutelare i diritti dei gay. Russo ha viaggiato per tutti gli Stati Uniti dal 1972 al 1982, facendo conoscere "Lo schermo velato" nel corso di letture pubbliche accompagnate dalla proiezione di estratti di film. Tanto nel libro quanto in queste letture pubbliche Russo raccontava il modo in cui venivano ritratti i personaggi gay e lesbici nei film americani e stranieri del passato. La preoccupazione di Russo per come le persone LGBT venissero rappresentate dai media lo portò a fondare, insieme ad altre persone, la Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), un gruppo che si occupa di monitorare la rappresentazione delle persone LGBT nei media e che ogni anno indice i GLAAD Media Awards. Il Vito Russo Award, dedicato alla sua memoria, viene assegnato ogni anno a un personaggio apertamente gay che lavori nel mondo dei media e che abbia dato un contributo rilevante alla lotta contro l'omofobia. Russo fu coinvolto attivamente anche nel gruppo d'azione ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Nel 1989 Russo comparve nel documentario premiato con l'Oscar Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, in cui raccontava la vita e la morte del suo compagno Jeffrey Sevcik. Russo morì per complicazioni legate all'AIDS nel 1990. Il suo libro Lo schermo velato ha ispirato un documentario dallo stesso titolo, diretto da Robert Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman, con la voce narrante di Lily Tomlin, trasmesso dalla rete televisiva americana HBO nel 1996.
- Vito Russo, född 1946, död 7 november 1990, var en amerikansk författare och skådespelare Han har skrivit boken "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies".
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- Vito Russo (born July 11, 1946, New York City - died November 7, 1990, New York City) was an American LGBT activist, film historian and author who is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised edition 1987). Russo developed his material following screenings of camp films shown as fundraisers for the early gay rights organization Gay Activists Alliance.
- Vito Russo war ein US-amerikanischer Autor, Drehbuchautor, Filmhistoriker und LGBT-Aktivist. Russo schrieb 1981 das Buch The Celluloid Closet. Das Material zum Buch entnahm er seinen eigenen Filmen, die er in den frühen Jahren der LGBT-Bewegung in den Vereinigten Jahren für die Organisation Gay Activists Alliance gedreht hatte. In seinem Buch hält er die Geschichte der frühen Lesben- und Schwulenbewegung in den Vereinigten Staaten fest.
- Russo ha raccolto il materiale per il suo libro curando le proiezioni di film camp per raccogliere fondi per la Gay Activists Alliance, una delle prime organizzazioni sorte per tutelare i diritti dei gay. Russo ha viaggiato per tutti gli Stati Uniti dal 1972 al 1982, facendo conoscere "Lo schermo velato" nel corso di letture pubbliche accompagnate dalla proiezione di estratti di film.
- Vito Russo, född 1946, död 7 november 1990, var en amerikansk författare och skådespelare Han har skrivit boken "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies".
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