Dry Ice Factory

The Chicago Reader has a good article on Frank Robinson (the writer and editor, not the baseball player and manager): "Harvey Milk's Unlikely Message Man". As noted in my review of Milk, Frank can be spotted several times in that movie. Fannish types will see some familiar names in the comments section on this article. There's lots of great stuff, but here's one favorite bit:

"In Chicago Robinson was a behind-the-scenes player in the gay liberation movement that arose in the wake of New York’s Stonewall riots. When I met him in 1971 he was a gruff but friendly fellow with a hearty laugh, and even then his trademark was a Greek sailor’s cap. Most of us in gay lib were college students, but Robinson, a veteran of both World War II and Korea, was in his mid-40s and still in the closet to his family and at work. He was writing the Playboy Advisor column at the time, and I got a huge kick out of knowing that Hugh Hefner’s young, horny, straight urban male audience was getting its sex and lifestyle advice from a middle-aged closet queen."

Via Robert Lichtman on trufen.

Update: Frank wrote about his experience working on the movie for Earl Kemp's eI #38: "Skimmed Milk".