Vito

Vito
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27 giugno 1969, New York City, una data passata alla storia per la sommossa di Stonewall: tra i manifestanti che, per la prima volta, si opponevano alla polizia, un giovane studente di cinema, il ventitrenne Vito Russo, destinato a divenire una figura cruciale del movimento per i diritti degli omosessuali negli USA. Cinefilo e infaticabile attivista, fino alla sua morte prematura, avvenuta nel 1990 per AIDS, fu tra i principali esponenti di importanti associazioni quali la AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, che combattè la politica reticente del governo Reagan nei confronti del virus. Ma Vito Russo è ricordato soprattutto per The Celluloid Closet (Lo schermo velato), il primo saggio sulla rappresentazione di gay e lesbiche nella storia del cinema che diventerà un libro di culto, vera e propria bibbia, tuttora imbattuta, del sapere GLBT e che ispirò, nel 1996, l’omonimo, e altrettanto epocale, documentario di Robert Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman.

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On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar called the Stonewall took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted on Christopher Street, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-old film student, was among the crowd. Over the next twenty years until his death from AIDS in 1990, Vito would go on to become one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT community’s fight for equal rights. He was a pivotal part of three well-known organizations during their formative years: GAA (Gay Activists Alliance), which staged subversive works of protest performance art to secure rights and dignity for all gay people; GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), formed to ensure that media representation of gays and lesbians was accurate; and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), a guerilla activist group that turned the fury over President Reagan’s refusal to do anything about AIDS into a series of highly telegenic acts of civil disobedience. In the midst of his commitment to activism, Vito was also a prolific writer. His seminal book “The Celluloid Closet” explored the ways in which gays and lesbians were portrayed on film, what lessons those characters taught gay and straight audiences, and how those negative images were at the root of society’s homophobia. Even before the book was published, Vito was taking “The Celluloid Closet” on the road, traveling to gay film festivals and college campuses for an entertaining and informative lecture-slash-clip show that intertwined Vito’s love of show business and radical gay politics. He continued writing, lecturing, speaking out and acting up until just months before his death.

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