Provenance
Papers and records collected by Marty Robinson primarily from the Gay Activists Alliance and The Lavender Hill Mob. He was a founding member of both organizations. The collection was donated by Marc Rubin, a close friend who was given responsibility for the collection by Robinson.
Scope and Content
The Collection is 10 inches and contains papers and other miscellaneous materials such as stickers and lapel buttons. The bulk of the papers is material from the Gay Activists Alliance from 1970 to 1974, and from the Lavender Hill Mob from 1986 to 1988. The material in folder 13 is apparently of mixed origin with some from Marc Rubin as well as Marty Robinson. The collection in general is very chaotic and disorganized with material of widely differing dates mixed together. Many items are fragmentary, second pages with no first pages and tables of contents with no texts. This collection is extremely valuable for research into the early years of GAA and of gay political activism at its beginnings in the wake of Stonewall.
Bio
Marty Robinson was one of the first activists to emerge from the Stonewall Rebellion. Formerly a construction worker, he led the first Christopher Street Liberation March July 27, 1969, and addressed a rally attended by over 2000 people that same day. With Jim Owles, Arthur Evans, Morty Manford, and others he founded The Gay Activists Alliance in December of 1969, one of the first post-Stonewall gay rights organizations. In the eighties, he founded The Lavender Hill Mob, one of the first AIDS activist organizations. He was also a founding member of The National Gay Task Force and of The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He died March 19, 1992.
Folder List
1. [Lavender Hill Mob material; other material related to AIDS activism, 1987-1988; bulk is from 1987]
2. [LAVENDER HILL MOB and AIDS related material; 1986, 1987, 1989]
3. [AIDS related material; 1987]
4. [LAVENDER HILL MOB material and personal literature]
5. [LAVENDER HILL MOB material and political material; 1975, 1979, 1986, 1987, 1988]
6. [LAVENDER HILL MOB and AIDS related material with miscellaneous political and cultural material]
7. [ Gay Activists Alliance material, 1970-1971]
8. [ GAA material, 1970-1971]
9. [ GAA material, 1970-1971]
10. [ GAA material 1971-1974]
11. [ GAA material 1971]
12. [ Program from The Twenty Seventh Annual Conference on World Affairs, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, March 1974]
13. AIDS and Government [folder containing miscellaneous material belonging to Marty Robinson and Marc Rubin including papers, stickers, and lapel buttons; most material from 1986-1989]
