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. |
I don't believe in the search. I believe in happiness now.
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.
Bring a song with you into the darkness.
Poets should be crazy-but only in their poems.
It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.
Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.
Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.
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