Library Living Room Film Club
Movie and Discussion
Wednesday, June 10
11:00am - 1:00pm
Northwest Regional Library
Living Room (Room 104)Join us for a film screening and discussion!
Welcome to the Living Room Theater! Join us on the second Wednesday of every month for a documentary screening and group discussion after the film.
This Month's Film Selection
Vito (2001) - On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted outside the Stonewall Inn, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-old film student, was among the crowd. Over the next twenty years until his death from AIDS in 1990, Vito would go on to become one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT community’s fight for equal rights.
In the midst of his involvement with Act Up and the fight against AIDS, Vito was also a prolific writer. His seminal book The Celluloid Closet explored the ways in which gays and lesbians were portrayed on film, what lessons those characters taught gay and straight audiences, and how those negative images were at the root of society’s homophobia.
Film screen courtesy of Kanopy.
A Service of the Broward County Board of County Commissioners
Northwest Regional Library
| Mon, Jun 08 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Jun 09 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Wed, Jun 10 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Jun 11 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Jun 12 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Jun 13 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Jun 14 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |

