WASHINGTON — A prominent LGBTQ activist from Trinidad and Tobago died in D.C. on March 4. Newsday, a Trinidadian newspaper, reported Colin Robinson, 59, passed away from colon cancer.
A source in Trinidad and Tobago told the Blade he had been living with his sister in D.C. as he underwent treatment. Robinson in 2009 founded CAISO, a Trinidadian LGBTQ advocacy organization.
Newsday reported Robinson also co-founded the Audre Lorde Project and Caribbean Pride in the 1990s while he studied in New York.
He was also a member of OutRight Action International’s board of directors from 1998 to 2003. Robinson, among other things, called for the decriminalization of consensual same-sex sexual relations in Trinidad and Tobago.
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