HARTFORD, WISC — Veteran progressive activist and TV-film-stage producer Scott Robbe died on Sunday, Nov. 21, according to a statement by Paul Algiers, a longtime friend and the executor of Scott Robbe’s estate.
Robbe was in hospice care at the home of his sister, Angela, in Hartford, Wisc. He was 66. Robbe died of complications from Myelodysplastic Anemia, a blood cancer he had battled for more than a year.
He had undergone stem-cell treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston in April of this year. Robbe was a prominent member in the founding of two direct-action groups in New York City: ACT UP and Queer Nation.