Assotto Saint

Assotto Saint (October 2, 1957 - June 29, 1994) was a Haitian-born American poet, publisher and performance artist, who was a key figure in LGBT and African-American art and literary culture of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Saint was born in Les Cayes, Haiti, on October 2, 1957, as Yves François Lubin. He moved to New York City in 1970, enrolling briefly in a pre-med program at Queens College, but soon dropped out to pursue his artistic interests. He adopted the name Assotto Saint around this time, choosing Assotto for a ceremonial drum used in Haitian Vodou rituals and Saint for Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.