5/30/2023 0 Comments The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo![]() ![]() ![]() He was an early member of the Gay Activists Alliance, formed in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall riot. ![]() Life partners and co-producers and directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman turned film critic Vito Russo’s pioneering 1981 study, subtitled Homosexuality in the Movies, into a comprehensive look at the subject with the help of Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, who wrote the narration and appears on screen, and narrator Lily Tomlin.Īs a young man growing up in Manhattan in the 1950s, Russo had lived with stereotypical representations of gay men and lesbians in the media throughout his formative years. From the image of two men dancing in an early experiment with sound film in 1894 to the out, proud gay men and lesbians in films like The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Go Fish (both 1994), this acclaimed 1995 documentary traces the history of LGBTQ representation on screen through more than 100 years and well over 100 films. ![]()
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