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. |
We know birth and we know death; the mystery is everything in-between.
We don't know why anything happens or why anything is.
The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want.
Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art
Inspiration is simply doing whatever it is you want to do.
The brightest stars don't necessarily give the most light.
The pieces of a puzzle aren't together or apart.
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.
Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around.
Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.
A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear.
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