Robert Halfhill, Twin Cities gay activist and archivist, dies at 76

[PeterK]

He was just as diligent in collecting newspaper clips, documenting events and preserving the history of gay rights. The result was 44 boxes of material that he donated to the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota, said Lisa Vecoli, the collection’s curator.

The boxes included a 500-page history about the fight for gay rights, “an unedited, unrefined, first-person narrative of that moment in time,” Vecoli said. “It’s in the raw form where you really see everything behind the scenes. It’s a wonderful piece he contributed to Twin Cities history.”

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