Jean Carlomusto Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jean Carlomusto Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jean Carlomusto (born 1959, Queens, New York) is a New York filmmaker,

AIDS activist, and interactive media artist. She produced and directed

HBO's Emmy nominated documentary, Larry Kramer in Love & Anger, which

was featured at the Sundance Film Festival. Her works have been

exhibited internationally in festivals, museums and on television.

She was an early pioneer in documenting the AIDS crisis. As the

founder of the Multimedia Unit at Gay Men's Health Crisis, she created

the television series Living with AIDS. She was a founding member of

DIVA TV (a video affinity group of ACT UP) and a member of the Testing

The Limits Video Collective.Jean Carlomusto graduated from Sewanhaka

High School in Floral Park, Queens, New York, in 1977. She earned her

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film from C.W. Post in 1981. She

earned her M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch

School of the Arts at New York University.Carlomusto has played a

major role in media production for AIDS activists groups. Her AIDS

activist work began in 1986, while working as a teaching assistant at

New York University, assisting student teams in a class making

educational videos for local organizations. When Joey Leonte from the

Gay Men's Health Crisis came to her class to request a video, and none

of the students wanted to work with him, the shame of her class'

reaction drove Carlomusto to volunteer for the Gay Men's Health Crisis

to increase awareness about AIDS and build empathy for those with the

illness. She began as the projectionist for their safe sex workshops,

then left her teaching job at NYU to start up the Multimedia

Production Unit in order to produce a weekly television program called

Living with AIDS. This was the longest running of the Gay Men's Health

Crisis television series, with guest videographers including Marina

Alvarez, Sarah Cawley, Ronald Dodd, Andres J. Figueroa, Laura Ganis,

Alexandra Juhasz, Ray Navarro, Steven Okazaki, Catherine Saalfield,

Kristin Thomas, and Paul Zakrzewski. These videographers not only made

safe sex videos and educational films for healthy living with AIDS,

but also gathered oral histories and interviews from diverse group of

people suffering from the disease.Carlomusto was part of the Woman's

affinity group of ACT UP that focused on bringing visibility to how

AIDS impacted women. In 1988, in response to an article by Dr Robert

Gould in Cosmopolitan Magazine which said that straight women did not

have to worry about AIDS, the Woman's Affinity group, including

Rebecca Cole, Maxine Wolfe, Maria Maggenti and Denise Ribble, and

Carlomusto organized a direct action against Cosmopolitan Magazine.

They interviewed the author of that article, psychiatrist Robert

Gould, who had made uninformed statements about women and AIDS.
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