Vinales had jumped from the police station’s second-floor window and was impaled on an iron fence. Vincent’s Hospital for Diego Vinales, who was arrested on March 8, 1970, in a police raid of the Snake Pit bar (in his Making Gay History interview, Vito mistakenly dates the raid to July 1969). In my interview with Vito, you’ll hear him trace the start of his activism to a candlelight vigil outside St. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus: The late author and activist Vito Russo is best known for his 1981 landmark book, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and for co-founding both GLAAD (originally known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), and ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Credit: New Line Presentations, Courtesy of Charles Russo.
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