Obituaries

Laurence A. TateGrants Manager

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.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Harold Eugene HoranAmbassador

Harold Eugene Horan, 80, a State Department official and onetime ambassador to Malawi, died March 12 of complications of a stroke at the Washington Home hospice in the District. He was a Washington resident.