Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton ( born November 9, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist, author and comedienne.

Life

Clinton was born in 1947 in Buffalo, New York and grew up in a Roman Catholic family. After her schooling in New York State Clinton studied at Le Moyne College English and Education and was an English teacher at a high school. In the 1980s she began performing as a comedian and cabaret artist. Your cabaret programs denominated inter alia Kate 's Out Is In (1993 ), Impure Thoughts (1995 ), All Het Up ( 1996) and Correct Me If I'm Right (1999). Various program content recorded on Höralben, including Making Light! (1982 ), Making Waves! (1984 ), Live at the Great American Music Hall ( 1985), Babes in Joyland (1990) Comedy You Can Dance To ( 1998) and The Marrying Kind ( 2004). In 2002, she appeared in the movie The Secret Lives of Dentists Alan Rudolph and was in the theater productions of The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway (2001) and The Vagina Monologues (2002) to see.

Clinton wrote as an author 's books Do not Get Me Started and What the L. Furthermore, Clinton wrote a monthly column for the magazine The Progressive and The Advocate. In the U.S. television Clinton has appeared in various talk shows as a guest and was Grand Marshal of Gay Prides in the United States.

Since 1998, Clinton lives with her ​​partner Urvashi Vaid in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.