Marty Robinson (gay activist)
Martin "Marty" Robinson (November 25, 1942[1] – March 19, 1992) was an American gay activist, founder of the Lavender Hill Mob.
Robinson had been a hippie and had dropped out of Brooklyn College[2] and worked in construction.[3] In late June 1969 he was a participant in the Stonewall Riot, which focused his activism on gay rights;[2] on July 27 he led the first Christopher Street Liberation March.[3] He was a member of the Mattachine Action Committee[4][5] and co-founded the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance later that year,[5][6][7] and subsequently ACT-UP,[4] the National Gay Task Force and GLAAD.[8]
On June 24, 1970, with his partner Tom Doerr and three others, he was arrested at a GAA sit-in at the Republican State Committee; they became known as the Rockefeller Five.[8][9] In 1986 he left GLAAD and founded the Lavender Hill Mob because he felt existing pressure groups were not sufficiently radical to effect policy change required by the AIDS crisis.[2][6][10][11] He is credited with developing political "zaps", chaotic and theatrical interventions intended to attract the attention of the press.[10][12]
Robinson died of AIDS in March 1992.[6][13] An archive of his papers is held by the New York City GLBT Center.[3]
References
- ^ "Birth certificate, Robinson Collection". National History Archives at the NYC LGBT Center. Box 3-19. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ a b c Kahn, Arthur D. (2005). AIDS, The Winter War: A Testing of America. Temple University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-56639-018-7.
- ^ a b c "Archive: 27. Marty Robinson Collection". The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010.
- ^ a b Myers, JoAnne (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements. Lanham, Maryland / Boulder, Colorado / New York: Scarecrow. pp. 317–18. ISBN 9780810872264.
- ^ a b Riemer, Matthew; Brown, Leighton (2019). We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation. New York: Ten Speed. p. 118. ISBN 9780399581816.
- ^ a b c Lambert, Bruce (March 24, 1992). "Martin Robinson, 49, Organizer Of Demonstrations for Gay Rights". New York Times.
- ^ Myers, pp. 175–76.
- ^ a b Baumann, Jason, ed. (2019). Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era. New York: Norton. ISBN 9781324002062.
- ^ Kohler, Will (August 5, 2018). "Gay History – August 5, 1970: Charges Dropped Against The Gay Activists Alliance's Rockefeller Five". Back2Stonewall. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ a b Clendinen, Dudley; Nagourney, Adam (2016). Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 543. ISBN 978-0-684-86743-4.
- ^ Boffey, Phillip M. (February 26, 1987). "Homosexuals Applaud Rejection Of Mandatory Tests For AIDS". The New York Times.
- ^ Riemer and Brown, p. 125.
- ^ The Advocate. Liberation Publications. 1992. p. 136.
Martin Robinson, a longtime gay activist, died of complications from AIDS March 19
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- ^ "Marty Robinson Collection". The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2019-10-07.