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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE PRIDE GUIDE 1998

Archwood United Church of Christ We Celebrate Pride in Diverse Community

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Starting June 7, 1998

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John R. O'Connor, LISW ACSW

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'Fumorist' to kick off

Pride weekend with laughs

by Eric Resnick

Columbus-Nationally known lesbian comic Kate Clinton will perform a Gay Pride Weekend show at Wall Street Night Club Friday June 26 at 8 pm.

Clinton's act includes political material as fresh as the daily news, modern family life, and her perspective on life as a gay American. She has taken an oath promising life, liberty and the pursuit of laughter.

Clinton has been an openly gay comic from the start. She has just finished writing her first book, Don't Get Me Started, to be published in June. The book is based on Clinton's monologues and comic wit.

Clinton also writes a monthly column, "Unplugged," in the Progressive, in which she mixes humor and sharp observation about the state of our nation and those who have put us in that state. She has just begun a new regular column for the Advocate.

Recently, Clinton joined the staff of the Rosie O'Donnell Show as a writer.

After her first one-woman show in 1993, the Los Angeles Times said, "Kate Clinton is the lesbian you want to take home to meet your parents. She's so far out of the closet, so natural with her sexual identity, that a homophobe would beg her to spend the night. Not liking Kate Clinton would be impossible

even by the Joint Chiefs of Staff." A self-described "fumorist"-her shorthand for "feminist-humorist”—and "gal comedian" par excellence, Clinton was formerly an English teacher for eight years. A writing workshop and an improvisational class with comic Bobcat Goldthwaite convinced Clinton that her political views deserved a public hearing, so she quit teaching, took a job as a window washer, and started airing opinions in church basements and bars.

In an interview with HX for Her, Clinton said, "When I first started my act, it was about being a lesbian. It was about coming out, dating, softball, monogamy, and all those things. When I was the only lesbian come-

Kate Clinton

dian out there, I had to cover everything: relationships, politics, science."

Clinton works tirelessly at fundraising for gay and lesbian causes. She said to HX for Her, "I don't have a lot of disposable [income] but it's something if I can generate some money by lending my name or my appearance to a fundraiser and riding herd on tuxedoed people."

Tickets for Kate Clinton are available by contacting Wall Street Night Club at 614464-2800.

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