Lee Raines

Background: Lee is a 34 year old white, gay man. He grew up in suburban Maryland outside of Washington D.C. He grew up in the American Baptist Church. He went to college at the University of Maryland and Montgomery College, then moved to New York in 1977 and began a career as a chorus boy in Broadway musicals. He was out in his social life but not to his family, even as he had a lover, Ricky Veretta, dying of AIDS. He eventually came out to his family and they slowly accepted him and his current lover, fellow ACT UPer Jeff Griglak. Lee and Jeff do not know their HIV statuses, but plan to get tested together this week.

Role in ACT UP: Lee is in the affinity group Seeing Red. He also does a lot of wheat pasting.

Groups/friends at the meeting: In a relationship with Jeff Griglak; affinity group Seeing Red

Specific tasks at the March 13, 1989 meeting: Seeing Red is on the agenda, during the Target City Hall report, to ask the Floor for approval to use the ACT UP logo on their posters for Target City Hall. 

Additional information: https://actuporalhistory.org/numerical-interviews/137-lee-raines