![]() ![]() (Disclosure: I have a semi-personal connection to the subject: Mrs. It remains one of the most effective studies of how movies reflect and reinforce social attitudes that I’ve ever read. ![]() Through the 1970s, he did work in film studies that became The Celluloid Closet, a study of how the open, surprisingly accepting treatment of gays in pre-Code movies developed into stereotypical and loathing portrayals. But not long after the Stonewall riots in 1969, Russo, a gay writer and scholar, became deeply involved in the equal rights movement. In another time, Russo might have spent a career studying the movies that he loved and left it at that. Follow traveling today and didn’t have time to do a longer review in advance of Vito, HBO’s documentary about the film scholar and gay rights activist Vito Russo, but I highly recommend it to anyone interest in pop culture, in civil rights, or in how the two are deeply connected. ![]()
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