Robert Cromey was an Episocpal priest and gay rights activist. Born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York City, Cromey earned his bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1953 and attended the General Theological Seminary. After working as a rector in the Bronx, he moved to San Francisco in 1962 to work as the Executive Assistant to the Bishop of San Francisco and became involved in civil rights activism. Cromey was involved in the founding of the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, an organization that brought clergy members and gay rights activists, and was later pushed out of his assistant position due to his work with the LGBT community and served as a rector for Trinity Church until his retirement in 2002. In this interview, Cromey discusses tensions between Protestant and Catholic churches in New York City, homosexuality and sexual repression in the Episcopal Church, meeting Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, and the role of activism in the church. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting the San Francisco minority politics and the Human Rights Commision.