PROJECT INFORM IN OTHER MEDIA ... 2008
Obituary: Larry Tate
(mention of Project Inform in bold below)
Laurence A. "Larry" Tate, 62, who managed grants for the national
HIV/AIDS Prevention Program at the U.S. Conference of Mayors,
died of lung cancer March 26 at the Capital Hospice's Halquist
Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington. He was a resident of
Washington.
Since 1993, Mr. Tate had supervised grant funds that the mayors'
conference received from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention for projects on HIV/AIDS prevention in cities and
on tribal reservations.
Mr. Tate also had been writing and speaking about AIDS treatment
and prevention for under-served minorities since the early
1980s.
Early on, he was known for his film criticism and antiwar
essays. He also wrote about the experience of being gay in
America for journals, the alternative press and the anthologies "Personal
Dispatches" (1989), "Hometowns" (1992), "A Member of the Family" (1992)
and "Friends and Lovers" (1996).
Mr. Tate was born in Washington and graduated from Michigan
State University's Honors College. While there, he co-founded
the Paper, an independent community newspaper.
In 1989, he became manager of the national hotline for Project
Inform, a San Francisco-based clearinghouse for AIDS treatment
information.
Mr. Tate, whose mother was a Cherokee, was a member of the
Cherokee Nation and Native Americans in Philanthropy. He was
a former member of the board of the National Native American
AIDS Prevention Center.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
