News from HRC Carolinas Dinner/actor Leslie Jordan to deliver keynote
address

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Contact:
Bert Woodard, 2007 HRC Carolinas Gala Public Relations/Marketing Co-
Chair, 704-332-9060, woodardbert@...

Emmy Award-winning actor Leslie Jordan to deliver keynote
address at HRC Carolinas 12th-Annual Gala

Will & Grace's Beverley Leslie has also appeared in film and on stage

Charlotte, NC – January 3, 2007 – The Human Rights Campaign's (HRC)
Carolinas Gala committee has announced that television and movie
actor Leslie Jordan will deliver the keynote address at the 12th-
Annual HRC Carolinas Gala on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at the
Charlotte Convention Center.

Jordan, a Tennessee native, has appeared in hundreds of television
shows, films and commercials, and is a familiar face on the
entertainment scene. He won a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest
Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of Beverley Leslie on Will
& Grace. Audiences will also recognize him from his performance as
Brother Boy in the feature film Sordid Lives, which also starred
Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke and Beau Bridges.

Jordan has had recurring roles on Boston Legal and Reba and stars in
the soon-to-be-released feature film Wanted: Undead or Alive with
Chris Kattan. He will be a recurring character in the upcoming CW
series Hidden Palms and will be starring with Lily Tomlin and Mary
Kay Place in 12 Miles of Bad Road, a pilot for HBO written and
produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason.

On stage, Jordan won the Ovation Award, The Garland Award and The Los
Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Preston
Leroy, the aging, sodden barfly, in Del Shores' hit play Southern
Baptist Sissies. He has recently completed a national tour performing
that role in repertory with Brother Boy in Sordid Lives. He is
currently performing his autobiographical, one-man show Like a Dog on
Linoleum to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Chicago,
Atlanta and San Francisco.

Jordan has also enjoyed considerable success as a writer. His play
Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued
My Life Thus Far ran to sold-out houses in Los Angeles and had a
successful seven-month Off-Broadway run. His screenplay Lost in the
Pershing Point Hotel won the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival's
Production Grant Award over a field more than 600 scripts and was
subsequently turned into an independent film.

Founded in 1980, HRC is America's largest civil rights organization
working to achieve LGBT equality. HRC effectively lobbies Congress,
provides campaign support to fair-minded candidates, and works to
educate the public on a wide array of topics affecting LGBT
Americans, including relationship recognition, workplace, family, and
health issues. In addition, the HRC Foundation engages in extensive
research and provides education and programming. HRC currently has
over 500,000 members, including more than 18,000 in the Carolinas.

HRC hosts annual fundraising Galas throughout the country to support
its mission of building an America where LGBT people are ensured of
their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home,
at work and in the community.

For more information and to purchase Gala tickets, e-mail
info@... or visit www.hrccarolinas.org.

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