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Akron is among 243 cities observing AIDS memorial

The 11th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization will be observed worldwide on Sunday, May 22. The event, which began in San Francisco in 1983, honors the memory of those who have died of AIDS and demonstrates support for people living with HIV and AIDS. 243 cities in 45 nations will participate this year, and for the first time the event will be observed in all 50 states in the U.S.

Seven Ohio cities are taking part: Dayton, Medway, Warren, Akron, Canton, Yellow Springs, and Cincinnati. In Akron the program begins at 7:30 pm in the Ocasek Building Auditorium, moving to Charles Goodyear Park, across from the court house on the High St. side, for the 8:30 pm to midnight vigil. Event participants are encouraged to bring candles and cups or 2liter plastic bottles to shield the candles from the wind. Materials will also be available at the site.

The International AIDS Candlelight

Memorial and Mobilization is coordinated under the auspices of Mobilization Against AIDS, a San Francisco-based non-profit AIDS advocacy organization. Local observances range in character from small gatherings in houses of worship to huge marches through city centers.

In some cases, participation in the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization marks a community's first acknowledgment that AIDS is a local issue, as well as a national and global issue. In addition to raising awareness, the event offers a public demonstration of compassion and solidarity to people whose illness often makes them the target of fear, hatred and discrimination.

Public figures who participated in the 10th anniversary of the event in 1993 included President and Mrs. Clinton; Diana, Princess of Wales; President Mary Robinson of Ireland; Nelson Mandela; and Bishop Desmond Tutu.

Rep. calls lesbians immoral at Ovett rally

Ovett, Miss.-Brenda Henson, the beleaguered co-owner of Camp Sister Spirit, says the decision by U.S. Rep. Mike Parker, D-Miss., to address a fund-raising rally organized by opponents of her lesbian-feminist retreat smells of politics.

"I think some people will do anything in the name of politics,” said Henson, who runs the retreat with her lover Wanda Henson. "What really bothers me is I've never met Mr. Parker and he knows nothing about our organization."

Parker, speaking at a May 14 fund-raiser for Mississippians for Family Values which has filed suit to close Camp Sister Spirit, called homosexuality an “immoral lifestyle."

"I think that the lesbian lifestyle is wrong," Parker said at the rally. "That's a question that no one ever asks. I think it is immoral." While not referring to Camp Sister Spirit

further polarizing the community.

"There's a big problem with this man's thinking," Henson said. "He's said that he went there because his constituents asked him to. What if his constituents were Klansmen?"

Asked after his speech why he objects to Camp Sister Spirit, Parker said it was the group's "agenda" that troubled him most. When pressed, he said, "I think we all know what that agenda is."

The Hensons established the camp as a gathering place for feminist education and seminars against racism and sexism.

Parker, who is seeking re-election, faces state Treasurer Marshall Bennett and political newcomer Bobby Smith in the June 7 Democratic primary.

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Mississippians for Family Values has filed suit in Jones County Chancery Court seeking to close the retreat. The suit contests the Hensons' right to operate a business on their land in rural Jones County. A federal suit challenges Attorney General Janet Reno's attempts to mediate between the Hensons and anti-gay local residents.

Brenda Henson, who did not attend the rally because she said she feared for her safety, called Parker's speech irresponsible and blasted the two-term representative for

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Tampa, Fla. A second initiative to repeal Tampa's gay civil rights ordinance will be on the March ballot, say anti-gay organizers. The city's 1991 rights ordinance was voted out in 1992, but was restored last October when the state supreme court ruled invalid 462 signatures on the petition that forced the vote. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case three weeks ago.

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