Top Vito Russo Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Vito Russo Biography

Vito Russo (July 11, 1946 – November 7, 1990) was an American LGBT activist, film historian and author who is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised edition 1987).

Read about Vito Russo in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Vito Russo Quotes

You can’t plead tolerance for gays by saying that they’re just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.

Extend, Gay, Gays, People, Plead, Tolerance

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.

Character, Defined, Gay, Homosexuality, Sexual, Taken

It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.

Heterosexuality, Romance, Sex, Stereotype

When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.

Brother, Likewise, Mean, Say, Sex

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

Dying, Indifference, Red, Tape

Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.

Catching, Forever, Hollywood, Today, Yesterday

Mehmed the Conqueror

Chris Froome

Iza Calzado

Lita Ford

Pierre de Coubertin

Pat Riley

Joseph Black

Gary D. Schmidt

Peter Arno

Josh Billings

Mark Foley

Minoru Mori

Vito Russo Biography

Contact Us

About us