Robert Scott Lewis:  

Life Check "My Pages" section for email addr Scott, Robert, or Bob? My full name is Robert Scott Lewis and in high school I was known as Robert or Bob. Since then, I have used my middle name. I made the switch because I was tired of being 1 of 3 Bobs in any room. I went on to earn a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Law and worked for 30 years as a CPA. I retired in 2005 at the age of 55. I now alternate between my roles as house-spouse and world traveler. My average-Joe credentials stop there. Though only a couple of classmates knew it, I was an out-of-the-closet gay man even in high school. In college, I became an activist and spokesman for the gay and lesbian community, founding president of the University of Washington Gay Students Association. I also served as treasurer/board member for Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities, business manager for Stonewall Rehabilitation Center, and founding board member of Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. In 1973, the University of Washington Daily published an article titled “The Life and Gay Times of Scott Lewis”. For the rest of my college years, I was known as Mr. Gay Lib. With MBA in hand, I went to work for Arthur Anderson in San Francisco. Arthur thought they were getting a mild-mannered accountant but quickly discovered they’d gotten a firebrand. It was a stormy 2 years and I moved on as soon as I earned my CPA license. I spent the next 6 years in the law department at the world headquarters of Bank of America. They were a bit better prepared to handle me, but throughout my time there, I was regarded as one of the most colorful members of the department. During this time, I completed a Masters of Law, served as treasurer of the Pride Foundation of San Francisco, and as a member of the mayor’s taskforce on gay and lesbian people. Most importantly, I meet my life partner, Sid Forman, at a New Years party on December 31, 1977—we’re still together after almost 30 years. Sid and I lived together in San Francisco from the spring of 1978 until the summer of 1983. By then, we had decided we wanted a quieter life than SF could afford us. We set our sights on Seattle, Sid took a job as a health inspector for the county (he’s still there), an...Expand for more