Saturday, May 6
7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
National Constitution Center
525 Arch Street
Admission: $200
To purchase a table (10 seats, $2,000), please contact Mike LaMonaca, (215) 732-3378 x112, or mike@equalityforum.com

The annual International Equality Dinner honors individuals and organizations for their contributions to the advancement of GLBT civil rights. This year, Equality Forum proudly honors Dan Zhou, a leader of China's emerging grassroots GLBT civil rights movement, with the 11th Annual International Role Model Award and Comcast Corporation with the Annual International Business Leadership Award.

Chinese gay pioneer Dan Zhou was profiled in TIME magazine for his leadership in China's gay and lesbian civil rights movement and for his HIV/AIDS awareness activism.

Comcast Corporation is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services, serving more than 21.5 million cable subscribers and more than 7.7 million high-speed Internet customers in 35 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Comcast is one of more than 460 FORTUNE 500 companies that provide nondiscrimination policies for their gay and lesbian employees. Steve Burke, COO, Comcast Corporation, and President, Comcast Cable Communications, accepts the award.

The evening's Featured Speaker, openly gay actor B.D. Wong, is well known for his roles as forensic psychiatrist Dr. Huang on NBC's "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" and as Father Ray Mukada in the HBO series "Oz." His Broadway debut as the androgynous Song Liling in "M. Butterfly" earned him a Tony Award, s Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Clarence Derwent Award, and a Theater World Award. He is the only actor to receive all these honors for a single performance.

Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell serves as the Honorary Dinner Chair. The Dinner Co-Chairs are Jay Everette, Senior VP, Corporate Communications, Wachovia Corporation, and Sophie Dagenais, Principal, FiveStone Properties LLC.

Sponsored by Wachovia