Veteran progressive activist and TV, film, and stage producer Scott Robbe died November 21, according to a statement by Paul Algiers, a longtime friend and the executor of Mr.
Robbe's estate. Mr. Robbe was in hospice care at the home of his sister, Angela, in Hartford, Wisconsin. He was 66. The cause of death was 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. Jay Blotcher, who compiled this obituary, noted that Mr.
Robbe was a gay man and a prominent member in the founding of two direct-action groups in New York City: ACT UP and Queer Nation.