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SOUTHERN TAKING PRIDE IN OUR CULTURE NOV 24 - NOV 30 / 1994 Remembering Milk Harvey Milk, slain 17 years ago this week, paved the way for today's gay and lesbian candidates. PAGE 15 NEWS Marietta gay bar raided; two arrested, owner cited PAGE 3 NGLTF's Creating Change conference draws 1,200 to Dallas PAGE 7 New brain study offers latest evidence of biological basis for homosexuality paces HEALTH AIDS activists blast Johnson & Johnson for pushing home HIV test kits page is OUT & ABOUT Indigo Girls headline rocking '30s reinvention of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' PAGE 25 Author Mark Thompson discusses myth, meaning and ’Gay Soul' page 25 Choreographer Louise Runyon Barth unveils 'Wild Women/Bellow!' page si VOLUME 7/NUMBER 40 PlEASf RECYCLE 75C WHERE SOLD A Day to Remember World AIDS Day is an occasion for reflection, rage and renewal. Atlanta marks December 1 with a wide range of events, both cultural and educational. by JAMES FITCH This year, Atlanta’s nod to World AIDS Day aspires to more than symbolism. Because of a col lective effort from city entities—spanning activist groups, city government, corporations, and the High Museum of Art—Atlanta residents on December 1 will have little choice but to sit up and pay attention. Among this year’s World AIDS Day highlights in Atlanta: a nationally broadcast conference on “HIV/AIDS in the Workplace” at the Hyatt Regency Hotel; “Electric Blanket,” a 90-minute slide presen tation described as the electronic equivalent of the Names Project Quilt, which will be projected onto the facade of the High Museum; and a range of events around town (see page 19). “Educating the workforce about this disease is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of the disease,” Mayor Campbell said at an October press conference announcing details of “HIV/AIDS in the Workplace,” a conference for business and labor groups which he asked to coincide with World AIDS Day. “We must act now to develop partnerships to prevent the spread of HIV and to protect our citizens and protect our social and economic health,” he added. The Dec. 1 conference will provide business and labor leaders in Atlanta with guidelines for compre hensive programs dealing with HIV/AIDS in the workplace. They will also be instructed on what resources are available to them for implementation, both through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local community organizations. Lou Dobbs, senior vice president and managing editor for CNN Business News, will serve as mod erator of the four-hour program. Mayor Campbell will give opening remarks and talk about the situa tion in Atlanta. Enoch Prow, executive vice president of NationsBank and honorary business chairman for the conference, will speak about the challenge of HIV/AIDS to Atlanta business. Prow was recently named board chair of the National Leadership Coali tion on AIDS in Washington, D.C. Other speakers include CDC director Dr. David Satcher, who will talk about the international and national challenge of HIV/AIDS, and Georgia State Epidemiologist Kathleen Toomey, who will talk spe cifically about HIV/AIDS in Georgia and Atlanta. “We have done this [type of conference] in other cities throughout the nation, and we have received tremendous feedback from the business and labor communities—very positive feedback,” says Angie Hammock, director of the CDC programs Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS. “[Participants in previous conferences] came look ing for guidance and they felt they got it,” Hammock adds. “That’s what we’re hoping to do in the Atlanta business and labor communities.” Though the conference is being offered on site only to business and labor professionals, it will be beamed via satellite to anyone with the necessary equipment to receive it. Hammock expects it to be viewed en masse by professional groups and busi nesses across the country. The broadcast will actually start with the lun cheon speaker, with the pre-taped morning sessions to follow. ‘That way, for those on the East Coast— let’s say at a Rotary Club meeting—they would just have their regular luncheon meeting and watch the broadcast,” Hammock says. “For West Coast folks it could be a breakfast meeting.” While the “HIV/AIDS in the Workplace” confer ence will impact business and labor leaders on a national level, the event most likely to impact At lanta the most on World AIDS Day is the visual centerpiece at the High Museum of Art, entitled “Elec- CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Pictured: The late Tom Fox of Atlanta, from Billy Howard's book “Epitaphs for the Living.” Howard's portraits are part of “Electric Blanket.” BILLY HOWARD