[2] The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) founded the Harvey Milk High School in New York City.
[3] Martin was a psychiatrist[4] and taught speech pathology at the NYU School of Education.
[5] Martin was a member of the Governor's Task Force on Teenage Suicide, Child Welfare League of America, The New York City Task Force on AIDS, and the NYC Board of Education Multicultural Advisory Committee.
They were together since 1975, lived together in Manhattan's Upper East Side,[7] and were buried next to each other in Brooklyn at the Green-Wood Cemetery.
[8] Martin died on August 15, 1991, in his home in New York City of AIDS related complications at the age of 57.