Vito Russo

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Majority of the poster is comprised of a color photograph of Vito Russo's AIDS Memorial Quilt Panel. Over the photograph of the panel are several other photographs related to Vito Russo's life and legacy; each photograph is numbered and has a corresponding caption in the lower margin. Lower margin contains black and white text on pink background.

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Title Vito Russo

Subject AIDS (Disease) (subject), NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (subject), Russo, Vito (personal name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 28 x 43 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Date Created 1992

Creator Pozner, Neil (creator)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance), Morgan, Scott (contributor)

Publisher Reflective Image (original), San Francisco (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights This item is protected by copyright. Copyright holder is unknown, unidentifiable or unlocatable. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-RUU/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-44726

Identifier box 7 (box), P00988 (call number), one-2018001-p00988~01.tif (filename), one-c4-44726 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 44726

Unique identifier UC12341885

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p00988~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 24.9 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
63.3 cm × 42.8 cm at 300dpi

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activist Larry Kramer with whom Vito helped co-found ACTUP and GLAAD. Arthur Bell, Vito, and George Sardi, all prominent media spokespeople for the gay movement in the "60s and 70s. __ Vito and Jed

Waters (director of camp classics including Pink Flamingos). | Gregory Peck and Vito. Vito and his friend Arnie Kantrowitz. Vito’s lover, Jeff Sevcik, and Vito. Vito at the 1987 March on Washington, at the Quilt.
Angeles. Lily and Vito at the Human Rights Campaign F'und banquet. This award was one of his proudest moments. __ Elizabeth Taylor and Vito at a 1989 AmFAR benefit. Bette Midler and Vito at an early
Rob Epstein with Vito. Vito in shirtsleeves accepting an awa-d. —_ Vito’s sixth grade picture. | Vito and Santa. _ Vito’s mother says this is her favorite picture of Vito. __ Vito’s baby picture. _ Vito in high school.
days. Vito on one of his many lectures on The Celluloid Closet. Vito atan ACTUP rally. Sitting around and waiting for things to change was simply not his style. Vito loved New York. __ Vito's clone period. Lily
printing from 1981. | Marquee at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre promoting Vito’s appearance. _ Book Signing for The Celluloid Closet. Christopher Street Magazine, July 1981. __ Vito wore his celebrity well. _ Vito and
Vito and friends at Club 82, a ’60s gay nightspot in Greenwich Village. Vito and friends at another party. Activist Sean Strub and Vito in Denver, 1981. Vito and Mickey Mouse.

New York Mayor David Dinkins and Vito. Vito Russo, a friend, and playwright/

Mattes, his agent and longtime friend. Michael Lumpkin, Vito , and John
Vito with Jeff's Quilt Panel. Vito poolside with Lily Tomlin in Los

Gay Pride Rally in New York. Vito in New York. Filmmaker
This was the head shot he left behind at his auditions. College
(as Edith Ann) and Vito. The Celluloid Closet in its first
friends at a party. Rob Epstein, Vito, and Jeffrey
A quilt panel for Vito designed by his friend,

Friedman at Fire Island Pines.
Clovis Ruffin, and signed by scores of his friends and admirers in 1991, more than a dozen of whom have since died of AIDS.

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Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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