Pride Guide 2004 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE A-13

Hometown heroes return to save the evening on June 19

by Scotty Didier

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Dayton Coming to save the day yet again, Dayton Pride's "Hometown Heroes" returns for the Pride Expo and Dinner on June 19. This year, Dayton Pride recognizes the and women that inspire and strengthen Dayton's GLBT community.

The second half of Dayton's Pride celebration, following the parade and festival on June 5, will occur at the Schuster Performing Arts Center, at the corner of 2nd and Ludlow Sts.

Karen Williams

The evening starts at 5 pm with the business and organization expo, followed by the 7 pm dinner in the Winter Garden and entertainment at 8 pm.

Businesses and organizations that would like to reserve a table at the Pride Dinner exposition can contact 937-275-3059 or Pride Dayton@aol.com.

Exhibitors may have items for sale. The expo includes complimentary appetizers, music and a cash bar.

The dinner will feature Karen Williams, comic, actor, writer and lecturer.

Curve Magazine calls Karen Williams “a laugh riot!" The Sydney Morning Herald proclaims that she is “ferociously funny, with perfect pace, timing and structure."

Known for her quick repartee, insightful commentary, and audience rapport, Williams is a comic master, a gifted actor, a multitalented writer, and an inspirational lecturer. Armed with her "healing with humor" philosophy, Karen is a modern-day alchemist, whose au-

diences appreciate her cathartic laughter, and whose peers consider her a comic's comic.

At the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival Gala in Montreal, host Jon Stewart introduced "Professor Williams" since her credits also include teaching a senior seminar in stand-up comedy at Cleveland State University.

Comedy writer and former television host of the show In the Life, Williams' humor writings appear in numerous anthologies, including Joke Stew, Revolutionary Laughter, Out in All Directions and Out, Loud & Laughing.

As founder of International Institute of Humor and Healing Arts, the HaHA Institute in Cleveland, she presents humor-related workshops, seminars, and keynotes for corporations, colleges, federal agencies, state departments of health, social service and nonprofit organizations, and human rights organizations.

The evening's entertainment will also include emcees Rob Austin and Matt Driggs with special guests, Dayton Gay Men's Chorus, Youth Quest, friends and local Hometown Heroes.

To purchase tickets for the Pride Dinner, visit one of the Pride ticket outlets:

Q! Gift Shop, 1904 North Main St, Dayton, 937-274-4400

Books & Company, 350 East Stroop Rd, Kettering, 937-298-6540

464 on 5th, 464 East 5th St, Dayton 937228-3584

Stage Door, 44 North Jefferson St, Dayton 937-223-7418

Ticket outlets may add a surcharge for use of credit cards. Some outlets will not accept personal checks for Pride Dinner tickets. Call ahead for information.

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For more information on Dayton Pride, go www.gaydayton.org/dlgc, e-mail pridedayton@aol.com or 937-275-3059.

Scotty Didier is the chair of Dayton Pride.

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