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He was taken to St. But Vito first began challenging the status quo when he was an undergraduate at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey. I was on the student lecture committee. I was warned not to do that. We paid him a hundred dollars and he came out and he spoke to a group of students, hostile students.

He was A month before his death, I met with Vito to choose photographs to go along with his chapter in the original edition of Making Gay History. Vito was the emcee. I knew that the tensions would be running high that day because a group of radical lesbians were opposed to a couple of comic drags scheduled russos gays be a part of the entertainment program.

Drag was high on their hit list. So I began working on Bette Midler weeks in advance to come and sing to sort of calm things down. Bette worked like a charm. It was a great thing for Bette, too. She said later that it was one of the great things she did, that she felt like she was Marilyn Monroe singing in Korea.

To learn more about Vito and his work, and for other information related to the episode, have a look at the resources below. Michael D. Klemm from CinemaQueer. Have a look at the episode on AIDS. You can also watch the speech here. Jeffrey Schwarz directed Vitoa feature length documentary about Vito Russo.

You can watch the trailer for the film here. Russos gays also compiled hours of outtakes from the documentary on a range of topics and featuring interviews with several different people, which you can find here. Vito Russo is also credited as a writer for the documentary The Celluloid Closetwhich is based on his book and lectures.

Vito is a featured storyteller in the Oscar-winning film Common Threads: Stories from the Quiltin which he speaks about his late partner Jeffrey Sevcik.

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Have a look at this clip from the film. It was the late fall of AIDS was burning through a generation of gay men. Tens of thousands were dead. Thousands more were infected, many of them already sick. And that included some of the people I knew I wanted to interview.

Time was not on my side. At the top of my list was Vito Russo. And he was also one of the founders of GLAAD, an organization that challenged how gay people were represented in the media. Vito was also a brilliant film buff who wrote The Celluloid Closet.