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. |
The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.
I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics.
Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.
I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.
I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.
To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.
An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart
Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.
When a head and a wall collide, it's never the wall that breaks.
You can't eliminate the dust, only move it somewhere else.
Dream as much as you like, but the world is not a dream.
Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do.
You don't have to have a dream for it to come true.
There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.
When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
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