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Vito Russo papers
- Title
- Vito Russo papers, 1969-1990.
- Author
- Russo, Vito.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | MssCol 2654 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- 13.19 linear feet (36 boxes); 1.41 Megabytes (249 computer files); 230 audio files, 19 video files
- Summary
- Personal and professional papers documenting Russo's activities as a film critic, writer, and gay rights activist.
- Subjects
- Video recordings
- Gay men > United States
- Russo, Vito
- Gay men's writings, American
- NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Sound recordings
- Gays > United States
- Film critics
- Floppy disks
- Motion pictures > United States > History
- Homosexuality in motion pictures
- Gay rights
- Correspondence
- Gay liberation movement
- Gay activists
- Gays' writings, American
- AIDS activists
- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (New York, N.Y.)
- Diaries
- Film criticism
- Authors
- ACT UP (Organization)
- Gays in popular culture
- AIDS (Disease)
- Lecturers
- Gay critics
- AIDS (Disease) and the arts
- Gay and lesbian studies
- Gay Activists Alliance
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Floppy disks.
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Source (note)
- Estate of Vito Russo, via Jed Mattes
- Biography (note)
- Vito Russo was a film critic, writer, and gay rights activist.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged.
- Call Number
- MssCol 2654
- OCLC
- NYPW00-A119
- Author
- Russo, Vito.
- Title
- Vito Russo papers, 1969-1990.
- Restricted Access
- Correspondence contained in boxes 1-5 is closed until November 7, 2015.
- Biography
- Vito Russo was a film critic, writer, and gay rights activist. Born in New York City in 1946, Russo attended college at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and received a Master's degree in cinema from New York University in 1971. Russo's essays, interviews, and film reviews appeared in such publications as Rolling Stone, New York, Outweek, The Village Voice, and Esquire. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Russo presented "The Celluloid Closet," a lecture and film series about the depiction of gay characters in movies. A book-version of "The Celluloid Closet" was published by Harper & Row in 1981. In 1983, Russo wrote, produced, and co-hosted "Our Time," a television series focusing on the gay community. In 1985 he was the national publicity director for the Academy Award-winning documentary "The Times of Harvey Milk." He also appeared in the 1990 documentary film "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt." Russo was a member of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), a co-founder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), and a co-founder of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Russo was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, and died of AIDS-related complications on November 7, 1990.
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- Research Call Number
- MssCol 2654