Vito Russo was the film scholar who wrote the benchmark book The Celluloid Closet, but he was also a fiery Act Up activist who changes minds and moved things forward during a particularly dire time in ...
It wasn't a film, it was a book and lecture series, but once it took hold, it changed LGBT film forever. "The Celluloid Closet" was an indictment of Hollywood's depiction of gay and lesbian characters ...