Movies: Vito Russo

  • 1984
    The Times of Harvey Milk

    The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

    The Times of Harvey Milk

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    Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world....

    The Times of Harvey Milk
  • 1996
    The Celluloid Closet

    The Celluloid Closet (1996)

    The Celluloid Closet

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    What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver scr...

    The Celluloid Closet
  • 2017
    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)

    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

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    Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action...

    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
  • 1974
    A Very Natural Thing

    A Very Natural Thing (1974)

    A Very Natural Thing

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    When David, an ex-monk still in his twenties meets Mark, he falls hard; soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their definition of "commitment" begin to push them apart. Mark wants other sex...

    A Very Natural Thing
  • 1989
    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

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    On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memo...

    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
  • 2015
    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

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    From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potenti...

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
  • 2011
    Vito

    Vito (2011)

    Vito

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    In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He went on to write "The Celluloid Closet", the first book to critique Hollywood's portrayals of gays on...

    Vito
  • 1992
    Voices from the Front

    Voices from the Front (1992)

    Voices from the Front

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    In New York City, a distraught activist confronts the mayor with a story of a friend who languished on a cot in an emergency room hallway for nine days, only to die 48 hours after leaving the hospital. In 1988, thousands of activists hold the Food an...

    Voices from the Front
  • 1993
    An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

    An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)

    An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

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    On January 22, 1993 at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Harvey Fierstein, Marga Gomez, and Lypsinka performed a one-night only benefit for the making of the film The Celluloid Closet, both directed by Rob Eps...

    An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends