Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.

In 2006, Kate Clinton celebrated her 25th Anniversary of performing with a 50-city It’s Come To This! tour. The National Center of Lesbian Rights came aboard as the tour’s major sponsor along with supporting sponsors, PlanetOut Inc, Air America Radio and The Advocate. This year she brings her new show, Climate Change around the world. She has certainly come a long way from those first performances in Unitarian Church basements. She still prays to the Unit.

In addition to live performance, Kate appeared in the film The Secret Lives of Dentists directed by Alan Rudolph and is one of four lesbian comics featured in Laughing Matters, an award-winning documentary produced by Andrea Meyerson. She is the narrator’s voice in Joan Biren’s documentary No Secrets Anymore — the Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons and has a cameo appearance in Dee Mosbacher’s documentary Radical Harmonies. Also narrated by Kate Clinton, Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’ Custody Movement (October 2006) revisits the early tumultuous years of the lesbian custody movement through the stories of five lesbian mothers and their four children.

Kate has been a volunteer emcee for hundreds of fundraising dinners and events which have raised millions of dollars for The National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Ms. Foundation, the New York City LGBT Community Center, the Gill Foundation, the Gina Gibney Dance Company to name a few. In 1999 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

At the 2007 GLAAD Media Awards, Kate Clinton was presented with the Pioneer Award.