Colin Robinson
(1961 - living) U.S.A.
African American activist, writer, performance artist
Colin Robinson was born in Trinidad & Tobago. An immigrant to the US, he is a graduate of two New York institutions, New York University and the Milano School at New School University, and helped plan the 1995 City University of NY Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS) conference Black Nations/Queer Nations: "Lesbian and Gay sexualities in the African diaspora".
Colin has worked on research projects on transnational migration, psychiatric epidemiology, and homelessness policy. He has made contributions to New York City's human environment over 20 years of involvement in organizational development, management, cultural work, advocacy and HIV services.
He is a co-founder of the Audre Lorde Project; served as Gay Men of African Descent's co-chair and first staff director; played leadership roles over eight years in Gay Men's Health Crisis's HIV prevention, public policy and technical assistance programs, and edited GMHC in Brief.
Colin was administrator for the award-winning publication Other Countries: Black Gay Voices and NY field producer for the film Tongues Untied. His poetry appears in numerous Black gay anthologies, his prose in Gay Community News, and his lips in Marlon Riggs's Anthem. He co-chaired the board of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and was Brooklyn Pride's 2000 grand marshal.
He has been appointed to several federal, state, local and foundation grantmaking, planning and advisory bodies in HIV, community development, scholarship and the arts, including serving as a juror for the CLAGS Rockefeller residency fellowships.
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