Published: Bob Hull Mini-Bio in Hull Family Association Newsletter

Hull co-founded the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in 1950 with Chuck Rowland, Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, and Dale Jennings. The group’s activities set the stage for the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. When I began research in February 2007, my goal was a biographical profile of Bob Hull for the HFA, a surname organization. I now have enough data on Hull and his colleagues for a book.
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Brief profiles of Hull and Rowland are posted on OutHistory.org. If you know anything about Hull or Rowland, we need to hear from you. Discretion is guaranteed.
Please contact David Hughes — info@bob-hull.com.

The Project

The lives of Hull and Rowland became entwined in 1940 in Minneapolis. Because he died in 1962, before historians could interview him, Hull remains a relatively obscure player in the early struggle for homosexual civil rights. We will paint a portrait of Bob Hull with the memories of those who knew him, as well as existing documentation. Rowland died in 1990 after founding the gay-oriented Celebration Theatre in 1982, and contributed much more to the record through writing and interviews. Newly processed archival information will shed light on Chuck Rowland’s post-Mattachine ventures. The lives of other select Mattachine members also will be portrayed.