Pride Guide.

CeCe Peniston, Kathy Sledge featured in Pride festival

by Michelle Tomko

Cleveland The Cleveland Lesbian-GayBi-Trans Pride Committee is producing their twelfth annual Pride parade and festival on Saturday, June 24.

The parade, co-sponsored by Cleveland State University's Gay, Lesbian and Straight Alliance, will assemble at 12:30 pm, with a rally at 1:00 pm.

The rally and parade step-off will be on Euclid Ave at East 18th St., in front of CSU's Marshall Law School. This is the same location as last year.

Kathy Sledge

Cathy 13

Alexis Antes

LGBT liason to the stars Chastity Bono will speak at the rally. She will be joined by Marshall McPeek of WKYC Channel 3, and U.S. Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Dennis Kucinich.

The parade will begin at 2 pm, and head west on Euclid, then north on East 9th St. to Voinovich Park on Lake Erie.

There, the Pride festival will continue until 8 pm.

For a suggested $5 donation, festivalgoers will enjoy a variety of vendors, a main stage with music and comedy artists, and a dance stage that will have local performers and continuous music provided by the Grid.

Several main stage acts have been confirmed at the time of publication.

Comic giant and Columbus native Suzanne Westenhoefer will grace the stage in the late afternoon, as well as serve as an emcee (see next page).

Dayton born recording artist CeCe Peniston will also be performing this year at Cleveland Pride.

Peniston's credits include a platinum album, Finally, being the first female artist to play in postapartheid South Africa, appearing for all the big guns on the talk show circuit, and playing at both presidential inaugurations for Bill

Clinton. She

has even per-

formed for the pope.

Peniston recently toured with Grace Jones in a tour of The Wiz in cities across America.

Kathy Sledge, the lead singer on the Pride favorite "We Are Family," will also be a headliner at the festival.

Best known for her work with her three sisters in the R&B quartet Sister Sledge, Kathy signed as a solo artist in 1992 with Epic Records, where she recorded the album Heart.

Also performing are folk artist Alexis Antes, the band Cathy 13, Young Park, and the North Coast Men's Chorus.

On the dance stage, the emcee will be the "Lakefront Legend," Twiggy, hosting diva stars Ivana Grump, Diamond Santiago, Destiny Sanchez, Andrea

Michaels, and Magnolia Thunderpussy.

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