MARCH 21, 1997 GAY PEOPLE's ChronICLE

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Rep. McKinney to speak at HRC Cleveland dinner

Cleveland-U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney will be the keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Human Rights Campaign Cleveland Dinner.

The dinner is scheduled for Saturday, April 19 at Cleveland's Marriot Key Center. Organizers of the fundraiser hope to attract a record 650 people.

Representing Georgia's 11th District just east of Atlanta, McKinney is that state's first African-American congresswoman. When U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Voting Rights Act allowed her district to be re-drawn as predominantly white, national attention focused on McKinney's November 1996 re-election campaign. In a startling victory, she solidly defeated her Republican

challenger 58 to 42 percent.

Cleveland Dinner is indicative of her longtime support of lesbian and gay civil rights," said event co-chair Elizabeth Berrey. She continued by citing McKinney's swift denunciation of the February bombing of Atlanta's predominantly lesbian Otherside Lounge.

Comedian and actor Jason Stuart will emcee the dinner. Since comingout on Geraldo in June 1993, Stuart has maintained a packed tour of comedy clubs around the country. He is currently developing a television sitcom with Paragon entertainment and has also appeared on Comedy Central's Out There in Hollywood, Part III.

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McKinney serves as a member of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, and the Women's Caucus. "Rep. McKinney's presence at our HRC

Also on hand at the dinner will be Dr. Paul Sherry of the United

Church of Christ, which will receive official recognition for its longtime support of the lesbian and

gay community.

All proceeds from the dinner will go to the Human Rights Campaign. Tickets are $125 per person, $150 after April 1. Forreservations or more information, call 216-779-6444.

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Keynote Speaker: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was re-elected in 1996 to the newly re-drawn, predominantly white 4th District of Georgia. She had previously represented the 11th District in 1993, the state's second black-majority district to be created after the 1990 Census. A long-time supporter of lesbian and gay civil rights, McKinney was among those public figures who immediately denounced the February bombing of The Otherside Lounge in Atlanta, calling for swift investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators.

Master of Ceremonies: Comedian Jason Stuart Since comic/actor Jason Stuart came out on Geraldo in June of 1993, he has been touring the country to sold-out crowds in mainstream clubs. He has landed himself a development deal with Paragon Entertainment where he is working on a television sitcom. Stuart has appeared on Comedy Central's OUT THERE in Hollywood, Part III, and has a co-starring role in independent film-makers Jon Paul Buchmeyer and Pamela Buchmeyer Aymond's comedy Gay TV: The Movie.

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