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educational materials, opened food kitchens, and held the hands of the dying in hospices. The gay and lesbian community is a family in the best sense of the word.... Listen, I don't want to die. I don't want to die. But I don't want to live in an
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This is difficult. I am a gay man with AIDS. If there is any honor in having this disease, it is the honor of being part of the gay and lesbian community in
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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
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Robert Hattoy was born in
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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
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In 2003, he joined the effort to prevent the sale of genetically modified fish in
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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
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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."
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