Lifted from OUT!/Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention (LAGAI) newsletter:

Colin Blakeney died Wednesday June 2, after three years of fighting AIDS
in his body and in the streets.  Government inaction, corporate greed and
the queer-hatred of the u.s. citizenry have murdered one more of our
warriors.

Born in 2 Feb 1948, Colin grew up in New England.  Colin began his rebellion
against injustice at an early age.  He was kicked out of many private high
schools until his parents sent him to a public high school.  Colin's attempt
to be rejected from every college failed when Willmington accepted his
carefully tailored application stating that "Love Story" was the most 
important book ever written.  Colin respected Willmington and the Friends,
not because they accepted him, but because they accepted a diverse group 
of youth that wouldn't be accepted elsewhere.

At 17, Colin and a Black gay friend/lover travelled through the South to
support the Civil Rights movement.  Colin was in one of the first groups
of students to visit the USSR.  In typical Colin fashion he went "underground"
to see an unsanitized view of a post-revolutionary society.  Colin travelled
the world from working the fields of Cuba to partying with the Sex Pistols
in London, until finally making San Francisco his home.

After testing positive, Colin's doctor gave him a card for a therapist.  Colin
ripped up the card and said, "I'm joining ACT UP."  Colin entered AIDS activism
in 1990 during the International AIDS conference.  He immediately joined the
civil disobedience and was poisoned by the SFPD when they "accidentally" gave
him cleaning solution to wash down his medications.  Despite many experiences
of police violence, from being shot at at the republican convention to beatings
by the SFPD at ACT UP demos, Colin was never afraid to take risks demanding
justice.

Colin believed that AIDS activism should go beyond the mainstream scope of
"drugs in bodies" and address the needs of women and people of color.  
Although Colin had insurance which provided him with excellent care, he
fought for health care for all.  One week out of the hospital, he insisted
on going to the March on Washington, and was arrested at the capitol on 
26 April, demanding universal health care.

We who love Colin will miss his kindness, his humor and his courage.  The
memorial will be in 3 July.  Email to marc@ckm.ucsf.edu for more info.