About Rene Van Hulle
Lived 1953 – 2007 (aged 53–54). Rene Van Hulle was a journalist, lGBTQ rights activist and writer.
Rene Van Hulle Jr. (1953 – 2007) was an American LGBT activist and writer.
Biography Van Hulle grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, attended New Trier East High School and graduated in 1971. He was also the co-founder of the Tavern Guild of Chicago and one of the founding members of the Royal Imperial Sovereign Barony of Chicago.
Van Hulle was a member of the board of Chicago Housing and Social Service Agency for a short time in the early 1990s. He also wrote columns for Gay Chicago Magazine under the pseudonym Heidi Snoop.
In 2000, Van Hulle was inducted to the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame.
Van Hulle was sick with AIDS and Lupus and died in a Skokie hospice on February 27, 2007, from AIDS.
Recognition Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame (2000)
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American LGBT activist
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Rene Van Hulle was born in 1953.
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Rene Van Hulle died in 2007.
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Rene Van Hulle was a journalist, lGBTQ rights activist and writer.
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