Wednesday 11th February 2015, 6:30pm, Taurus, Canal Street, Manchester.

Free but please reserve a place.

A documentary about the man who brought us all out of the ‘Celluloid Closet’. Director Jeffrey Schwarz looks back at Russo’s life as a film fan, a film critic and latterly as an AIDS activist. In the aftermath of Stonewall (1969), Russo found his voice as an angry critic of LGBT representation in the media. Always defiant and eloquent, this moving and inspiring film tells the story of one of our movement’s most important figures. The screening will be introduced by Dr Andrew Moor of Manchester Metropolitan University, and there will be a post-screening discussion.

‘An emotionally powerful documentary portrait’, Hollywood Reporter

This event is programmed in partnership with LGBT History Month.