CraigRobarts

Craig Robarts

"The first AIDS patient in Halifax"1

AnitaMartinez

Craig Robarts, oh my god. He was such a' am. I had no idea... And he’s sitting there and he spotted the camera. It’s like his eyes got, "waahhh." "Oh, I got some ideas,” he said. “I’ll show you.”

Rumours was across the street. So he said, "Oh, okay, take a couple here." And I think I took some in the office. And then he said, “I got another idea! Lets go over to Rumours.” “I think it’s'closed,” I said. “No. No. I can get in.” So, we went in the front door and he was just wandering around. He said, “Lets go in the women’s washroom.” We spent a lot of time in the women’s washroom. And it’s like, “Okay,'I’ve been married four times and I’ve known a lot of jerks in my time. But this was totally different. I’m in the women’s washroom with a guy that I met in an office and anybody else would’ve run for the hills,” but it’s like, “eh.”2

Full interview with AnitaMartinez & EricSmith about him here

Early Person With AIDS

• https://aidsactivisthistory.omeka.net/items/show/532
• https://aidsactivisthistory.omeka.net/items/show/411
• https://www.aidsactivisthistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aahp-anita-and-eric-final-with-photos.pdf

HistoryProjectTodoList: grab one of these photos for the illustration for this page

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