Robert Ian Schlessinger
1991

"Robert was the Boston Police Department's liaison to the GLBT community. He had been in the post for less than a year. The Globe had done a story about him and his horse, but the picture they ran made him look old. I first met him at a police department meeting with community activists. When I saw Robert in the flesh, I got the biggest crush on him - one of those love-at-first-sight, tongue-tied, tripping-over-yourself-in-his-presence kinds of crushes (for those of you who know what that's like - yikes!). He was a sweet man. This was taken at Pride, when the festival was held on City Hall Plaza. He passed away about three years later."