Vito Russo (/ˈruːsoʊ/; July 11, 1946 – November 7, 1990) was an American LGBT activist, film historian, and author. He is best remembered as the author...

conclusions about movie profitability when women are represented well. The "Vito Russo test" created by the LGBT organization GLAAD tests for the representation...

Gianni Vito Russo (born December 12, 1943) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 film The Godfather. Russo was born...

GLAAD Vito Russo Award is a special GLAAD Media Award presented annually by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. It is named in honor of Vito Russo...

the Movies is a non-fiction book by film historian and LGBT activist Vito Russo, first published in 1981 by Harper & Row. The book examines the history...

Celluloid Closet may refer to: The Celluloid Closet (book), a 1981 book by Vito Russo The Celluloid Closet (film), a 1995 American documentary film based on...

Montenegrin poet Vito Positano, Italian diplomat Vito Postiglione, Italian auto racing driver Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013), Canadian mobster Vito Russo, American...

Vito Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and on lecture and film clip presentations he gave from 1972 to 1982. Russo...

rights for the LGBT community. Vito Russo Award Presented annually at the GLAAD Media Awards. It is named in memory of Vito Russo, a founding member of GLAAD...

in Out magazine's list of Most Powerful Gay People. 2019, received the Vito Russo Award at the 30th GLAAD Media Awards. Most Talkative: Stories from the...

Pictures. The film documents the life of Vito Russo, gay activist, film scholar, and author of The Celluloid Closet. Vito premiered at the 2011 New York Film...

unheard of in 1990s television at the time. In 1999, RuPaul was awarded the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for work in promoting equality in the...

1955 to 1961. Louie Russo and his brother, Willy, were 'made' under Al Capone. His brother was one of the men sent to kill Vito Corleone during the Castellammarese...

the LGBT+ community. The Library is named in honor of Pat Parker and Vito Russo, individuals who championed LGBT+ causes in their professional and personal...

gay man; his story is told by his partner, film critic and historian Vito Russo, who succumbed to the disease in 1990, five years after he was diagnosed...

the draft by pretending to be gay men. According to gay film historian Vito Russo in his book The Celluloid Closet, co-star Michael Greer, who played the...

album An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore). In March 2010, Nixon received the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards. The award is presented to an openly LGBTQ...

as representative of the entire gay community, but gay film historian Vito Russo disputes that, citing the disclaimer as "an admission of guilt. What director...

occurred on November 14, 1985. The founding group included film scholar Vito Russo; Gregory Kolovakos, then on the staff of the NYS Arts Council and who...

Laurents, while co-star Farley Granger was bisexual. Interviewed by Vito Russo for Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet, Laurents stated: "We never discussed...

Vito Joseph LoGrasso (born June 18, 1964) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling as Big Vito and...

(2021–2023) Drive Back Home (2024) In March 2005, Cumming received the Vito Russo Award at the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards for outstanding contributions...

Martin has been honored with numerous accolades, including the GLAAD Vito Russo Award, the Gala Vanguard Award by the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the International...

Campaign Equality Award, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vito Russo Award, The Trevor Project Hero Award, and the Matthew Shepard Foundation...

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and understanding of the LGBT community." Alan Cumming was given the Vito Russo Award; given to "an openly lesbian, gay or bisexual member of the entertainment...

revealed to be lovers). In his book The Celluloid Closet, gay film historian Vito Russo reports that Reeve said that the kiss was booed by preview audiences in...

pundit Vincenza Carrieri-Russo (born 1984), American model, actress, entrepreneur and beauty pageant titleholder Vito Russo (1946-1990), American LGBT...

historian Vito Russo cites the character Lindy, played by Antonio Fargas, as being both funny and challenging through his gay militancy. Russo deems Lindy's...

surprise birthday party for their father, crime boss Vito Corleone. Rizzi and Connie marry in 1945. Vito disapproves of Connie's marriage to a small-time...