As we approach World AIDS Day on 12/1, we’re revisiting episodes of people we lost to the disease. The late author and activist #VitoRusso 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). Vito died from complications of AIDS on November 7, 1990. He was 44.

Listen to his interview here:
Http://bit.ly/mgh-russo