Bob Hattoy (November 1, 1950 – March 4, 2007) was an American activist on issues related to gay rights, AIDS and the environment. Life Robert Hattoy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 1, 1950. His father was a machinist tool and dye maker and his mother a school secretary He moved with his family to California as a teenager. He played the cymbals in a local marching band. He attended several colleges without obtaining a degree. He worked for a time at Disneyland and then on the staff of Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky. Hattoy was California regional director of the Sierra Club from 1981 to 1992. When he heard of a proposal to name a national forest after Ronald Reagan, he compared it to "naming a day-care center after W.C. Fields." He was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1990. He joined Bill Clinton's presidential campaign during the 1992 primary and then learned that he had AIDS-related lymphoma and began chemotherapy treatments. 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. Beginning in 1993 Hattoy worked in the Clinton administration as a deputy in the White House Office of Personnel. In March 1993, when Clinton said he was considering restrictions on the roles gays and lesbians might be allowed to take in the military, Hattoy compared that to "restricting gays and lesbians to jobs as florists and hairdressers" in civilian life. The next year, to decrease his visibility, the administration appointed him White House liaison on environmental matters at the Interior Department, where he remained until 1999. He also served as chairman of the research committee of the Presidential Commission on HIV/AIDS. According to James Carville, investigators for federal special prosecutor Kenneth Starr repeatedly questioned Hattoy in April 1997 if he had helped place gays and lesbians in prominent positions in the Clinton administration. In 1994, in an interview with POZ magazine, 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. He delayed taking protease inhibitors out of concern that they might prove dangerous, until late 1996 when he felt noticeably weaker. He worked briefly as