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After high school, she tried a few desk jobs that she found dull and eventually began working in a woman’s bar in Boston called Somewhere, which would be renamed Somewhere Else when rebuilt after a fire. She loved the community, began working as a bouncer, and eventually went to Fran’s Place in Lynn. A series of anxiety attacks in 1986 led her to question drug and alcohol use and would lead to her sobriety. She would work as a jail officer in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and a substance abuse counselor at CAB Health and Recovery Center. Robin has been the Director of Housing Operations for Centerboard since 2001 and works to address homelessness, sobriety, health, and nurturing families. \u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRobin Tobin is the daughter of a Sicilian immigrant and a police officer, was born in 1954 and raised in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. She was a model child until the age of twelve when she discovered alcohol and secretly began drinking. While attending a Catholic High School in Newton, Robin explored her sexuality and experimented with opium. She would eventually come out to a sympathetic aunt while hiding her identity from her parents. After high school, she tried a few desk jobs that she found dull and eventually began working in a woman\u0026rsquo;s bar in Boston called Somewhere, which would be renamed Somewhere Else when rebuilt after a fire. She loved the community, began working as a bouncer, and eventually went to Fran\u0026rsquo;s Place in Lynn. A series of anxiety attacks in 1986 led her to question drug and alcohol use and would lead to her sobriety. She would work as a jail officer in the Suffolk County Sheriff\u0026rsquo;s Department and a substance abuse counselor at CAB Health and Recovery Center. Robin has been the Director of Housing Operations for Centerboard since 2001 and works to address homelessness, sobriety, health, and nurturing families.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"provider":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Through A Rainbow Lens"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Through A Rainbow Lens"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/255/original/Aviary_TRL_Header.png?1704389184","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/239/212/small/open-uri20240407-478-xlr5f8_1712486114.jpg?1712471718","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - open-uri20240407-478-xlr5f8.mp4"]},"duration":3270.522,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/239/212/small/open-uri20240407-478-xlr5f8_1712486114.jpg?1712471718","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-unitedlynnpride.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/239/212/original/open-uri20240407-478-xlr5f8.mp4?1712471711","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":3270.522,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Robin Tobin transcript 4-25-24 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nToday's date is March 12th, 2024. My name is Andrew Darien, I'm a Professor of History at Salem State University, and I'm conducting this interview as part of the Mass Humanities funded project: \"Through a Rainbow Lens: A Reflection on Lynn's LGBTQ+ History.\" I'm honored to be joined today by Robin Tobin, a longtime Lynn resident, who serves as the Director of Housing Operations for Centerboard. I wanted to begin by thanking you for being here today, and confirming that I have your permission to record this conversation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=0.0,41.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nGood Morning, Drew! Yes, you do have my permission.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=41.0,45.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nTerrific. So I see that you were born in Brighton and you've lived in Lynn for some time. Where exactly did you grow up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=45.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI grew up in Brighton, Mass in the Oak Square area, which is right on the line of Newton, Mass and Alliston's on the other side. I lived there until I was....oh, god...probably thirty two, thirty three.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=57.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI believe your father was a long time police officer [and] eventually [became] a deputy sheriff. Can you say a little bit about what it was like having a cop as a father?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=80.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nA police officer. My dad was a police officer. It was— that was one of the things that he would always say to us, is that: \"I'm a police officer. I'm not a cop.\" is what he would say. And so I grew up learning to respect the police, because he was a police officer. It was pretty interesting through the years: the different things that took place, from as simple as when we started— and when I say 'we' I mean my friends, my sister, and her friends —started going out the different bars when we really shouldn't have been there. Even though the drinking age at that point in time was eighteen, it wasn't something that we would necessarily be doing. And then we would find ourselves in Brighton, in these bars, hiding because he was coming in. So it was....it was something, but it was—there was a [safe] feeling that I always had because of it. I will say there was, a little bit of a 'worry' factor [regarding] whether or not he was coming home, even though way back then in those days, it was a much different job for the police officers at that time [compared to] what goes on today. Even as far as myself getting stopped by police for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing like driving toxicated. The question was \"Where are you going?\" And I would say, \"Home.\" And they'd say, \"Well, make sure you go.\" And then that was that. There wasn't any arrest. There wasn't, you know....there wasn't any any other penalty to doing that back then. We [all] know it's a much different world today. But it was pretty interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=96.0,221.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWould you say that you had a positive relationship with your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=221.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYes. Most definitely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=228.0,232.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was your relationship like with your twin siblings, Michael and Kathy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=232.0,243.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nWe are, and always have been, very close. Because there's there's not quite two years between us. So it— through all the different things in our lives, we've always been on the same page. It's one of those relationships I think that most people share with their siblings. I can yell and scream at them, but don't YOU dare go near them! So it's like that. Even through some of the hardest decisions that we had to make, as far as my parents and [with] my mother, being sick and [with] dementia, we always agreed. Even if we didn't agree, we came to the same agreement in order to be able to get through what we needed to get through. We're still very close. We text each other every morning. And so we're— we're very close.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=243.0,305.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas your family very religious?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=305.0,309.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI would say no.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=309.0,314.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow do you think your parents would have described you as a young child, say, between the ages of five and twelve?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=314.0,326.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nBetween five and twelve, they would have said I was a wonderful child. Those were good years!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=326.0,337.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIt sounds like maybe something shifted shortly thereafter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=337.0,341.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nOh, most definitely. Most definitely. We should start talking about [when I was] fourteen— that's another story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=341.0,350.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you wanna talk a little bit about what started to happen around age fourteen?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=350.0,356.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nAround age fourteen is when I started drinking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=356.0,362.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you remember the first drink that you had?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=362.0,366.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI do. It was vodka and orange juice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=366.0,373.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow did you get it? How did you feel about it at the time? And how did it make you feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=373.0,384.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nSo back then, couple of people had fake IDs. I didn't because that was bad— you couldn't have a fake ID, so I didn't do that. But I went to the liquor store with them anyway, and they bought the alcohol. We [then] went to a friend's house, and nobody was home. The parents for that house weren't home. And we drank there. It was like in the late afternoon, evening, and I was completely wasted. My parents and my siblings had gone out for the day and that's why they were at home, so I decided that I would go home. It was prob— I'm gonna guess it was probably, like, seven or eight o'clock at night. But it was already dark out then. And, I said, \"Oh, good. I made it home,\" and I went to bed. I lied down and I got real dizzy, and the room started spinning. And I said, \"Oh, I'm gonna get sick.\" Just as that happened— I can't remember yesterday, but I can remember this like it was yesterday! [Then] I got up and just as I got up, they came home. So I didn't make it in the bathroom, because my father came in and he had to go to the bathroom. I went down the hall. It was the one— we had a long hall [that went] into the kitchen, and I got sick in the sink. [Then] my mother started screaming for my father and saying \"There's something wrong with her! There's something wrong with her!\" And I said, \"No, Ma! I ate some hot dogs at the cookout and they must have made me sick.\" \"You ain't had that. That's not hot dogs!\" Then the next day, nothing was said about it. We didn't talk about it. Nothing. That was the first time and I never drank vodka again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=384.0,515.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid that make you stay away from alcohol for some period of time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=515.0,522.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI don't remember exactly. Like, if it was a month, two months —I don't remember exactly. But no, I didn't stop. I don't know how long it was in between.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=522.0,537.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo [you] stayed away from vodka. What became your drink of choice?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=537.0,543.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nMostly beer or wine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=543.0,547.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat would you, say your high school years were like? Were you serious about school? Were you primarily interested in drinking? How did you spend most of your time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=547.0,563.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nHow about a combination of both? I loved going to school because we I went to a[n] all female school. It was in Newton, Mass and very small. There were thirty two in my class, and just about the same in the other [grades]: Freshmen, Sophomore, Senior, [and] Junior years. Same amount in each classroom. [There were] probably a hundred and sixty in the whole school. [Or maybe a] hundred and twenty. What? Somewhere in between there. It was a fun setting to be in that school. Most of us had gone to school with each other since we were in grammar school, so we knew each other very well. And, to say— I just had lunch with a few of them the other day, so we've stayed close through the years, as well. High school was the first place that I smoked opium. It was the first place I took THC. We used to go to school and then we would leave, and we would go to Kemmore Square, where there was a bar that we could get into in Kemmore Square. [Then we'd] take the bus down and go in into the spa down there. Yeah. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=563.0,646.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd did your parents have any idea what you were doing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=646.0,653.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nNot really. No. Not then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=653.0,658.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you remember, Your first crush?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=658.0,663.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nMy first crush? Oh, yeah. Yes, I do. Yep. That was [when I was] fifteen, Sophomore year. [On] Halloween night I was with— there were four of us: myself, another woman and two guys. we Were sitting on this wall, [a] small wall, not a big wall— small wall —our feet were on the sidewalk. And the four of us were laying back looking up at the sky talking. She and I looked at each other and said, \"Why are we here with them?\" And we left, and that was that was my first.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=663.0,719.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid she become your girlfriend?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=719.0,722.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nShe did. But it was very, very secretive. Nobody knew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=722.0,731.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhen do you first remember being attracted to girls?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=731.0,738.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nAlways. Always.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=738.0,744.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere you afraid of getting caught once you finally acted on it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=744.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nOh, most definitely. Definitely. I was afraid of it and there was a part of me that didn't care. But I was afraid of it, you know, for all the reasons: being judged, [being] not liked. At some point all that did happen— being called \"homo\", \"lezzie\" —all the words that go with that. And, yeah. Yeah, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=750.0,786.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nYou said eventually that did happen. Were you out by choice or were you identified by others?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=786.0,796.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\n[At] that stage, identified by others— at that stage. I came out to my cousins and my aunts first. I was probably sixteen or seventeen, then—seventeen, seventeen. And erm....because there was also the confusion, because I did have boyfriends too. I had both. Right? I had both. But I always knew where I was more comfortable. I actually— at one point, there was this very..... [I] thought I was gonna get married to this wonderful, wonderful person. He's no longer with us. I said, \"I can't,\"— and I had a girlfriend at same time —so I was like, \"I can't. I can't do this.\" Right? So I had a conversation with him and said, \"We can't move forward with our plans.\" I said, \"I'm gay.\" And he said to me, \"Oh....well, that's okay because I am too.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=796.0,877.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid that surprise you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=877.0,881.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nNot really. But it was it was very....what's the word I wanna use? Re—I was relieved. I was relieved because I didn't know— I didn't know what was gonna— the reaction was gonna be. I was relieved that it was, I was— I was like, \"Well, this is good.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=881.0,904.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI imagine it was a combination of both feeling relieved that you wouldn't be letting him down, and also that he was something of a fellow traveler.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=904.0,917.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYeah. Yep. And we remained friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=917.0,921.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nCan you tell me why you specifically chose to come out to your aunt, your cousins, and how they reacted to it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=921.0,932.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nThey were fine with it. It didn't make any difference to them. It it was like, \"Rob, it doesn't matter. We love you anyway.\" Like, that whole: \"It's okay,\" \"Are you gonna tell your father? You better not tell your father.\" Because he was a Boston police officer, you know? Back then, he was very— I'll say it —prejudice[d]. He was very prejudiced back then. He was part of the—when they were busing the first time. The [desegregation] school busings, and all that that went on through those years. How traumatic that was for everybody— for the kids that were going, for the police —for everybody. It was a really difficult time, and he was very prejudiced back then. So there was a lot of fear about sharing with him. And my mother, I didn't want [to come out to her] because I didn't wanna put her in a position to have her have to have that information and not say something to him. I felt safe with [my cousins and my aunt].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=932.0,1003.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas that aunt your mother's sister, or your father's?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1003.0,1008.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nMy father's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1008.0,1010.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nYou must have been around fifteen or so around the time of the Stonewall riots. Is that something you remember hearing about at the time? Or is it something you learned about later?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1010.0,1030.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nLater, it was later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1030.0,1033.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow about all the racial issues in Boston that you described. Were you aware of those?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1033.0,1041.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYes. Yeah, because every day he'd come home and talk about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1041.0,1046.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIs that one of the reasons why you went to a private school in Newton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1046.0,1053.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nNo, it was continuation of the grammar school. It was a Catholic high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1053.0,1062.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nMhmm. You had mentioned earlier that your family was not religious, were they maybe... more just culturally Catholic, if you will?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1062.0,1073.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYes. Back then. Yep. Yeah. They didn't go to church on Sundays. We did, they didn't. But we were all christened and confirmed in Holy Communion. We did all that, but they didn't go to church.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1073.0,1092.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo out of high school, you had a few desk jobs at the RMV and at Traveler's insurance. But then by 1982, you started working in a women's bar in Boston. Do you wanna tell me about that shift from dull, white collar work to working in a women's bar?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1092.0,1121.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nOkay, so I worked at the door. I was one of the bouncers at the door collecting the money and making sure that everything was safe. [I] spent most of it very high—the whole time. And we would stay there after two o'clock in the morning till, like, six and walk out the door. It was right in the financial district in downtown Boston, so we'd be leaving to go home with the sunshine [while] everyone else would be walking the streets to go to work. It was just—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1121.0,1165.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat bar was this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1165.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nIt was called 'Somewhere', and then [once] there was a fire. I forget what year the fire was, but the gentlemen that owned it did the whole place over again. Then they named it 'Somewhere Else' after the fire, [it was then] on Franklin Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1166.0,1187.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid you continue to work there after the fire?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1187.0,1191.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI did for a little while. Then what happened was... it was a July fourth, and I was coming home from [Provincetown, Rhode Island]. I had gone to P-Town for the weekend and I got really sick once I got home. I didn't know what was the matter with me, but I felt really lousy. I went to the hospital and they didn't find anything wrong with me, but I just I couldn't hold anything down. It was like a really bad anxiety attack. At that point I was like, \"I have to stop using.\" I was using pretty heavily and I had a stop. [Then] that whole process began and once that started, I couldn't even go to the bar, nevermind work there. Once all that happened, I stopped working there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1191.0,1256.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI see. When you were at the RMV and Travelers Insurance were you using then as well?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1256.0,1264.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYes. When I worked at the RMV, we would go down to North Station— of course, it was completely different at the time because it it was still on Nashua Street before the jail was there —and there was, you know, the hotel was there. It was completely different than what it is today. And we'd go to the bar every day and drink at lunchtime. Sometimes we'd go back, sometimes we wouldn't. Sometimes I would smoke a joint in the back hallway, in the stairs, in the RMV. Yeah. We would leave work because some of us [were in] school and that gentleman that I talked talked about earlier, that I was gonna marry, we would leave to go home. We would [then] take the street car and we would take some mescaline on the way that, so that we could have a fun ride on the street car on the way home. Then go home for a couple of minutes and then go back out, and start again. That was the RMV.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1264.0,1331.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nBefore you had that anxiety attack and ended up in the hospital, were there other moments where you thought that some of the substance abuse might be a problem?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1331.0,1346.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nNot for one second.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1346.0,1351.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nCan you point to anything that made that shift in your thinking? Do you think that the anxiety episode happened at a specific time for a specific reason?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1351.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYeah, I think it happened because if it didn't, I was probably gonna die. So it was— that was the warning sign and I paid attention to it. So by that time —and it was now it's '86. And then that was— I got cleaned for the first time in '86.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1367.0,1391.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere you able to stay clean immediately? Or did it take a few tries?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1391.0,1398.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nIt was immediate. It was immediate. I didn't go to detox. I didn't go to a program or anything back then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1398.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nThat's pretty remarkable. It sounds like even though you never consciously questioned any of the abuse, there must have been a part of your brain that knew that you had had too much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1410.0,1427.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nProbably, probably. But I didn't know it then, though.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1427.0,1432.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was there— at that point in your life, your folks and family members probably were more aware of the problem?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1432.0,1443.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI think— I don't know that they knew the depth of it then. They probably realized there was a lot of drinking going on. I don't think that they knew that there was any other kind of drug involved, but I think they knew that there was a lot of drinking happening because it was never really discussed then. So, it was just, you know, I stopped drinking and that was that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1443.0,1477.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI guess you did not go to Fran's or Lynn 'til much later than that? Or when when was the first time you went to Fran's?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1477.0,1489.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nSo I was— sure. I was going then, in those years when I was working at the bar in the eighties. Yeah. Most definitely late seventies, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1489.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you remember the first time you went to Fran's and what brought you there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1500.0,1506.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nA friend of mine lived in East Boston. We were in town and she said, \"You wanna go to Fran's?\" And I was like, \"Where's Fran's?\" And she said, \"Lynn.\" I said, \"Well, how are we gonna get there?\" She said, \"I'll drive us and I'll take you— bring you back to your car.\" I said, \"Okay. Let's go.\" So, we went and that was the first time. I re— I remember walking in, wondering, like, \"What are we doing here? Why are we here?\" It was packed. It was packed with people, and it was, you know...it felt small compared to the vibe in town. And just people everywhere, but the music was good. We danced and we had a good time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1506.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat kinds of people were at Fran's when you were going there in terms of class background or race? Was it mostly men or women? Who was there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1553.0,1572.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI think it was it was pretty mixed. There were probably more more men than women, but not too many more. I would say they were probably all white. I don't remember it being mixed race at all —doesn't mean it wasn't. I don't remember it, but I think it was mostly white.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1572.0,1599.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere you there for any of the drag performances?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1599.0,1602.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nA few of them. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1602.0,1606.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere those, especially memorable, or they were, similar to what you might see in other Boston bars?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1606.0,1614.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYeah. It was similar. It was similar. It was—it was fun. It was nice to see people being able to be themselves and enjoying that. For me, I don't know. I enjoy it and I enjoy it for the reason why I just said: because people are allowed to be themselves. What I don't like is when people who on are not gay and they're straight, and they go for a a reason, like a Bachelorette party or something like that. I don't like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1614.0,1662.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIs it because, they're almost treating it like a....sociological experiment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1662.0,1671.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYeah. All the...all that...they're not —and this is all in my head. I don't know what they think. But in my head, it's like they're not accepting of it, they're laughing at it. It's like...humorous. That's my take, but it doesn't mean that that's solved either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1671.0,1695.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo, is it correct that you got sober around '86?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1695.0,1703.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYes. '86.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1703.0,1706.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd, this, of course, is the moment in which the AIDS Crisis is becoming prominent. Do you remember when you first learned about it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1706.0,1724.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYeah. Too many people. Too many people, too many of my friends. [My] brother's partner, he died in '89. One of my friend's brothers, they all had it because they were hemophiliac[s]. I was still— the first time was actually....I was still working at the registry, so it was '79, I think, or '80. And, her brother had pneumonia, but he had AIDS. Because of what it was back then, she didn't even know that he had AIDS. But his partner told me because I was friends with them as well. It was [a] really, really tough time....really tough time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1724.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAmong all your friends and acquaintances, how many people would you say that you knew that you lost to AIDS?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1799.0,1810.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nTen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1810.0,1813.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nPretty devastating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1813.0,1815.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nVery. Very devastating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1815.0,1819.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid you get involved at all in political activism on behalf of AIDS patients?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1819.0,1828.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI used to do the walks and.....obviously back then, I wasn't who I am now, and I didn't. It was too it emotionally to participate in that, but I did do the walks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1828.0,1853.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, it's an old adage that one can't really take care of others until one is taken care of oneself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1853.0,1863.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nThat's correct. One hundred percent correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1863.0,1868.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo, toward the end of the eighties you find yourself working in the Suffolk County Sheriff's department. Is that job that your dad helped facilitate?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1868.0,1882.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nOf course.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1882.0,1887.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nwhat exactly did you do there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1887.0,1889.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI was a jail officer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1889.0,1893.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was that like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1893.0,1896.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nThat, you know—people, I always say, \"People would always ask back then, 'What was your day like?'\" And there was really no way to explain all the different things that took place in a day. It was a job that....working in a male's unit was better than working in a female unit. The males that were there as inmates would treat the women like their cousin, their sister, their mother, their aunt —there was respect. Some weren't [respectful], but few, very few, that weren't that way. When you worked in the women's unit, there was no respect. It didn't matter who was in there. It was a tough to see them going through it, what they were going through...the inmates. And I, being in the position that I was in, always knew that that could have been me at any time. So, I treated them with respect regardless of what was going on, because I just never got caught. [That wa]s the only reason why I never got arrested, I never got caught. It was sad to see. I can remember.... I can remember when I first started it was at Charles Street. When that door closed, it was the— you know, the old Charles Street and the bars and the selves, and the sliding gate that just slammed. I was like, \"Oh, boy. This isn't good.\" And I used to do the visits, and the people that were coming in were— they would have to give the date of birth so you could get the right inmate to go to visit them. They were they were all, like, eighteen, seventeen, nineteen years old. Their families were in there: their uncles, their cousins, you know. They were— they felt safe because they were there. They had a bed. They were getting fed. And it was really.... it was really tough. And then sometimes when we finally moved to Nashua Street, you'd see the same people coming back in and and be like, \"What happened? How come you['re] back [in prison]?\" And they said, \"Oh, I was supposed to go to court, and I didn't go.\" \"Well, why didn't you go?\" \"'Cause I was sleeping.\" And I'd be like, \"You were sleeping?\" If I ever had to go to court, I wasn't sleeping the night before. I was a nervous wreck about what was gonna happen, and it was never anything illegal. It was just, like a parking ticket or something like that, and I would still be a wreck. It was very eye opening. I didn't like the way that some of my coworkers treated them, it was hard to watch. It was hard to watch [that just] because they had a badge some of them thought they had the power. And that just wasn't me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=1896.0,2105.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was an example of something that one of your coworkers would do that you found unsettling?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2105.0,2115.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nWell, there was an instance that there were three three officers bringing a gentleman to the hole —meaning the sixth floor, because they had done something on the unit that they were in. And they would take him off the elevator....but I should say dragging him off the elevator and said to me, \"Well, you might as well go ahead [and] give him a kick while while we're taking him.\" And I was like, \"I don't think so.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2115.0,2151.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd you worked there for how long?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2151.0,2154.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nAlmost five years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2154.0,2158.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhy did you decide to leave?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2158.0,2161.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nWell, I decided to leave because I.... in that in.....what year was it? '90....'94. Yeah, '94. I thought it would be a good idea to try a different drug, just to see what it was like. Just to see— just a titch, just to see. And what ended up happening with that is that I went to go get some drugs, and the dealer wasn't there. This was in Chelsea, and they said, \"But you can come in and wait,\" and so I did. Then I was sitting there. I was like, \"Why am I sitting here waiting for this?\" It was a beautiful day outside. And the next thing I knew the cops were at the door, and there was a raid.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2161.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere you caught in that raid?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2216.0,2218.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI was. I was there. Yes. But I didn't get arrested because there weren't any drugs in the apartment. I didn't have anything on me, nobody had anything on them. I didn't get arrested, but they obviously called the sheriff's department and told them. And then I went to work the next day and, I was told I could either fight it or resign. I resigned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2218.0,2249.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was the conversation like with your father after that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2249.0,2255.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYeah. It wasn't a good one. He didn't know. He didn't know what, at that point in time, he didn't know what the drug was. I told him it was marijuana.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2255.0,2271.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nFrom there, you've eventually [found] yourself in nonprofit work, in counseling, and now more recently, in housing advocacy. Do you wanna talk a little bit about what that transition was like, going from somebody who struggled a bit with substances and needed a lot of help, to somebody who started extending herself to other people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2271.0,2314.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nWhen I went detox, that was in August '96. When I left detox, they they suggested that I go to a longer program. And I was like, \"I don't wanna go to a longer program. I wanna go home.\" But at that point in time, I didn't really have a home to go to. Because my mother and father, at that point, didn't necessarily —not that they didn't want me there. They [just] didn't wanna go through the insanity of all that, [that] had taken place again. So I did go to the halfway house, and I was there for about seven months, and then I went to Sober Living. Then, in that time period there, I worked as a counselor. Well, first I worked as relief staff, and then I did some counseling at the halfway house myself. It was there that I decided that I wanted to do something along those lines. My own recovery..... it was very stressful to do that so early in recovery. I had like two and a half, almost three years [sobriety] then. It was hard to be in that position and take care of myself. So I took a break and I did some, for about a year, if that long, work for a lab in Lynn: picking up specimens and bringing them back to the lab, and going to different facilities, different jails, hospitals, and court houses, and [bringing the samples] back. Then I got sick of driving on the road all the time. And then a friend of mine worked with this agency, and she was moving on to a different position, and her position became available. So I applied and I got the job was in 2001, and I've been here ever since. I started with case management. Yeah, like, thirty seven families. Then I moved over to a different part of the program, but still on the housing [side]. Then I became a supervisor there and we grew bigger. Then that super— the main supervisor left, and I [recieved] that position. Then we just kept growing and at some point, I was the director of housing. Just recently, my title changed: I'm the Director of Facilities and Operations now. We're really large now. You know, it remind....—this job, in the beginning, working directly with the families reminded me a lot of both of my jobs with the counseling and with the jail because it's the same population. The same population, the same issues: the substance use, the abuse, domestic violence. All of the things that I had dealt with in both of the previous jobs. Being able to put myself in their position, it—there's a lot to be said for having life experience when you're trying to help somebody and not not necessarily giving them that information. But when you speak the language, because it is its own language, they get that. They can hear that. It's made a difference. There's been..... I don't know how many different people that I've met and worked with on all levels, and I'm still in touch with a lot of them. Some of the families still even come back after years of, like..... I've been here since 2001 and some of them still come back to say thank you. And I'm like, \"You did the work, and not me.\" You know? Because it meant something. So it's been very rewarding. And it's been very difficult, too, because there's been a lot of different tragedies that have happened through the years too. People that didn't make it and people that have passed, and all of that. Kids that were removed, and all that stuff too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2314.0,2617.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you think substance abuse issues and housing issues are ones that especially affect the LGBTQ+ community,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2617.0,2632.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nYes. Yes. Definitely. I mean, there's just so many different problems when it comes to all of it because it's just another.... what's the word I wanna say? Each issue is entangled with each other. It's like a web, right? So everything that happens... some people started using because they were gay. Then they can't find housing because they're gay, y'know? We've had people, partners, come in— two women. We haven't had two men, yet. But, two women and with their kids, and other families in the shelter give them a hard time. There's always something, there's always a judgment. We've come a long way, but we have a long way to go. 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I think that there were too many people that would try to change it again, like they already have, to make it go backwards?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2782.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, there's no question, that if you look at the last forty to fifty years, there's been an incredible amount of progress on behalf of LGBTQ+ rights. 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There has been a drastic change. I often think of those— there were a few young women who who work at the same agency as I do, and have no idea of what it was like when I was their age. You know? No idea. I've shared some of the stuff with them and they're just lin awe that all of the things that occurred occurred. You know? Because they don't have a clue about what it was like back then, and even for people that are older than me, what they went through. I have a friend who has a sister... she's eighty one, I think, now.....and when she was younger, she was married, she had children. She left her husband and she had a partner. And probably about six years ago— six years, maybe seven years now—her partner passed. They never came out to anybody in their family, never. Her partner passed and her partner's family didn't even acknowledge her. Didn't have her invited to the wake, the funeral: nothing...did nothing to at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2843.0,2956.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhen you look at the younger generation of LGBTQ+ people, do you feel pleased that they are, in many ways, so unaware of all those struggles because they themselves didn't have to face them? Or is there a part of you that kinda wishes they knew and appreciated that history more?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2956.0,2989.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nI think I'll say both, Drew. Both. I'm glad that they don't have to go through it or that they haven't. Because it's not to say that some of them haven't gone through some kind of prejudice, or name calling, or whatever. But for the most part they haven't— not to the volumes that people my age, older, [or] in the same ballpark had to go through. But [I'm] glad that we've made it that far...that it is how it is today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=2989.0,3027.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI'm wondering how you feel about LGBTQ+ as a kind of umbrella organization. To what degree does that umbrella term give solidarity, and strength in numbers among all these very diverse groups? 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If other people don't think of it that way, then they have to get to where they need to get to be in the acceptance piece of it........that's how I look at it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=3062.0,3129.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nThat makes sense. Last last question: you've been part of the struggle individually in your own life, but also part of a larger struggle for equal rights. 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I'll be a hundred and twenty years old!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=3156.0,3168.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI meant more in terms of sort of the state of the movement: equality and acceptance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212#t=3168.0,3176.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/127389/file/239212/transcript/66635/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Robin Tobin\n\nMy hope for fifty years down the road is that: One, the world is still here —that's my first hope. And my second hope is that people can— if people could just be accepting of each other, for whatever they are. The world would be such a better place, and that everybody [should] respect each other. One thing my dad always said to me— and this he said a lot of things —but the one thing he said to me the most was, \"It's nice to be nice, \" and I try to live my best to that. \"Nice to be nice.\" And if people could accept that for each person, regardless of age, race, creed, sexuality, then how wonderful would it be? Because says Louis Armstrong, right? [It's a] wonderful world. 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