16 Facts About Bob Hattoy

Bob Hattoy was an American activist on issues related to gay rights, AIDS and the environment.

Robert Hattoy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 1,1950.

Bob Hattoy's father was a machinist tool and dye maker and his mother a school secretary He moved with his family to California as a teenager.

Bob Hattoy worked for a time at Disneyland and then on the staff of Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky.

Bob Hattoy was California regional director of the Sierra Club from 1981 to 1992.

Bob Hattoy joined Bill Clinton's presidential campaign during the 1992 primary and then learned that he had AIDS-related lymphoma and began chemotherapy treatments.

Bob Hattoy, speaking at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City said: He is often cited as the first person with AIDS to address a national convention; however, Keith Gann, a person with AIDS from Minnesota, had addressed the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

In March 1993, when Clinton said he was considering restrictions on the roles gays and lesbians might be allowed to take in the military, Bob Hattoy compared that to "restricting gays and lesbians to jobs as florists and hairdressers" in civilian life.

In 1994, in an interview with POZ magazine, Bob Hattoy criticized several administration officials for failing to develop an overall AIDS policy and discussed how his outspokenness had prompted his reassignment to the Interior Department.

Bob Hattoy delayed taking protease inhibitors out of concern that they might prove dangerous, until late 1996 when he felt noticeably weaker.

Bob Hattoy worked briefly as a political consultant until California Gov.

Bob Hattoy was elected the Commission's president in February 2007.

Bob Hattoy had concerns about the fishes impact to California's waterways.

Bob Hattoy had one foot inside and one foot outside.

Bob Hattoy battled recurrent pneumonia and other complications several times and suffered a bone marrow infection a few weeks before his death, but was generally healthy throughout his years with AIDS.

Bob Hattoy died at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, from AIDS-related causes on March 4,2007, aged 56.