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.
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Take a Straight Person to Lunch »

By Kate Clinton, June 30, 2009

Heterosexuality is in crisis.read more

Obama Forsakes the Gay Rights Movement »

By Kate Clinton, June 24, 2009

As much as I was fully prepared to be disappointed in the Obama administration, I am surprised by my disappointment.read more

Gay Comics Without Borders for Pride Month »

By Kate Clinton, June 18, 2009

We emcee rallies, introduce local politicos, ride in open convertibles waving sweatily to spectators pointing at us and mouthing, “Who’s that?” Sometimes we even get to perform short sets in between mega-amped, lip-syncing divas of the dance club scene.read more

My Report Card »

By Kate Clinton, May 4, 2009

I will never forgive Arlen Specter for his questioning of Anita Hill.
I recommit myself to challenging hetero-supremacist, bibliocratic, don’t-ask-don’t-tell denial of life.read more

State Fairness »

By Kate Clinton, April 13, 2009

The fanatics can't beat back marriage equality.read more

The Curious Case of Bristol Palin »

By Kate Clinton, February 23, 2009

The thirty-year crusade for family - the straight is understood – makes a young girl derive identity and meaning from her offspring.read more

Missing George in Dallas »

By Kate Clinton, February 16, 2009

When I suggested a spontaneous drive by and citizen’s arrest, they told me that the forty thousand dollar security fence around the compound that their tax dollars had bought made even toilet papering trees impossible.read more

Shut Up, Cheney! »

By Kate Clinton, February 8, 2009

I just want to say to DC, he in his Pinochetish wheelchair, “Do not make me come down there.”read more

Why I Love Creating Change »

By Kate Clinton, February 3, 2009

The panels kept us busy when we weren’t doing what we do best—yacking and scheming.read more

Inaugural Lift »

By Kate Clinton, January 23, 2009

I love reading, hearing and saying, “President Barack Obama” and find myself fighting my disbelief that so far he is doing what he said he would do.read more

Enough of Bush! »

By Kate Clinton, January 15, 2009

Our national adrenal glands are beyond fatigued from the shock of the Bush Doctrine.read more

Obama Throws Us Under the Bus »

By Kate Clinton, December 22, 2008

Let’s have some real gay balls after this inauguration.read more

It’s Pay-to-Gay Time »

By Kate Clinton, December 15, 2008

In whatever year-end giving we can afford, we need to support our LGBT centers and organizations.read more

It is two weeks since the election of Barack Obama. It is still true. »

By Kate Clinton, November 19, 2008

It makes me smile every morning. Then I read the paper about the Armageddon that is our financial system and it harshes my mellow. But after CA, AZ, FL Prop Hates, it has been a shallow mellow.read more

A Bittersweet Night »

By Kate Clinton, November 10, 2008

While the American family and our extended international family were whooping it up for the historic Obama victory, I banged pans and wept for joy with the best of them.read more

Why I Don't Like the Fourth of July

Unemployment Figures Underscore Need for New Stimulus

Julie Bolz,

My guest this week is Julie Bolz, a women's rights and human rights activist, who has built or repaired dozens of schools in Afghanistan.
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Shepard Fairey, Citizen Artist

The maker of the iconic “Hope” poster has turned frustration and anger into inspiration.

Changing Obama's Mindset

Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.

Pete Rose Hits it Around

Want to feel old? Pete Rose just turned sixty-eight. Want to feel young? Talk baseball with Pete Rose.

Naomi Klein Interview

“We don’t have a right to be disappointed” by Obama, says the author of The Shock Doctrine.
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