Southern voice. (Atlanta, Georgia) 1988-20??, November 02, 1995, Image 1
NOVEMBER 2/1995
PLEASE RECYCLE
Boy George has been a singular presence in the pop
music world since he first hit the scene as a 1980s gen
der bender. Now, with a tell-all autobiography and a
'way-gay new CD, the Boy is back. PAGE 27.
cause
More than
170 local
restaurants,
spanning the
gamut from
fast food to
haute cuisine, are joining together
for Dining Out for Life, a fund-raiser
for Project Open Hand. PAGE 15
Gay
addiction
program
suivives ax
Two addic
tion recovery
programs at
Decatur
Hospital, one
for for gays
and one for African-Americans, have
survived planned cuts but may still
face extinction. PAGE 4
Agood
meal for
agood
Revised
domestic
law neats
completion
1, V\'l riKVMf'DS
Atlanta —City Ctninrilwoman Mary Daves
last week asked people in the communitv to be
patient mexpecting a new domestic pai Inershtp
law, and piomised one would be coming in the
near future.
Dans, wlio has been leviewmg tire rewrit
ten city domestic partnership ordinance since
May, said last week that she's "about ieady” to
bring the plan before City Council.
Davis stuck her head in the door of a meet
ing of the mayor's senior advisors on the gay/
lesbian community last week to say she was
working on the ordinance and would discuss it
with the mayor and members ot the community
in the next lew da\s
Members of the advisory committee haie
been asking Davis and other city officials about
the status of the ordinance for some months, safid
advisor Laity Pellegrini. v ,
Mavoi Campbell is also pushing for the or
dinance to go forward—soonei rathei than later,
said \ick Gold, a spokesman tor the mayor "The
mayor is anxious for it to go through," Gold said
"He has been a strong supporter of domestic
partnerships since he was on City Council"
The rewritten ordinance, dratted by Assis
tant City Attorney Robin J. Shahar, would ex
tend benefits to the domestic paitners of city
employees who have registeied their partner
ship with the city .
i ty C un il i it d tl p itn i • gi ti\ n
1993 Since then, more than 60 couples have leg-
istered their partnership Of those, bve are city