BiographyType: Gay activist, author and journalist Born: 1930 Died: 1994 Rubin, a typesetter by trade, came to South Florida in the mid-1970s from California, where he had been in the gay rights movement. His first activism in South Florida was as a political organizer for the 1977 gay rights referendum in Dade County, which was defeated. Mr. Rubin also began trying to get Broward gays and lesbians politically involved. He was the founding chairman of the Broward County Gay Pride Committee in 1980 and of the Dolphin Democratic Club in 1984. |
Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.
The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.
Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love.
Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.
Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.
We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it.
Writing is discovering what you don't know.
If I could find the right words, I'd say what the blue sky says.
The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.
It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.
Once you master starting and stopping, the rest is easy.
One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.
Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.
Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas
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