FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 2006
Contact: Ginny Apuzzo (845) 339-7963
Jay Blotcher (845) 687-2284
THE HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH POLITICAL HUMORIST KATE CLINTON AT SUNY NEW PALTZ FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 2007
LEADING LESBIAN COMIC KATE CLINTON CELEBRATES RAISING HELL AND OPENING MINDS
NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK – Humorist Kate Clinton will perform a special engagement at SUNY New Paltz on Friday, February 9, 2007. The event is a benefit for The Hudson Valley Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Community Center. Funds raised by this event will help the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center to purchase a building that will serve as its permanent home here in the Mid-Hudson region.
“An Evening with Kate Clinton” will take place at the Studley Theatre on the SUNY campus. The show starts at 8pm. Doors open at 7pm. This event is wheelchair accessible.
Reserved seating for VIPs is available for $100, which includes a dessert reception afterwards with Kate Clinton. Preferred seats are available for $50. General Admission tickets are $35. General Admission for all Center members is $25 with your membership card. General Admission for Students/Seniors is $20.
Tickets go on sale December 1 via the Center website at www.lgbtqcenter.org. Mail-in ticket purchase will be available for general admission only. Guidelines for mail-in purchase will be on the Center website. For more information, call 845-331-5300.
Kate Clinton is one of the leading lesbian comics and political satirists in America. She has performed nationally since 1981 in venues ranging from Joe's Pub in New York City to the Park West in Chicago to the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, with hundreds of comedy club dates in between. Clinton has played comedy festivals including Just for Laughs in Montreal, the Toyota Comedy Festival in New York, and Marshall's Women in Comedy Festival and appeared on Comedy Central’s groundbreaking “Out There” TV special.
“I’m a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer,” Clinton said. “I have worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. I still believe that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.”
This year Kate Clinton celebrates her 25th anniversary of performing for the LGBTQ community. She is commemorating this milestone with a 50-city tour across the United States and Canada that emphasizes LGBTQ history for the past quarter-century. Her comedy material appears on seven recorded comedy collections, including Comedy You Can Dance To, Read These Lips and The Marrying Kind. Her first volume of work, Don't Get Me Started, was published by Ballantine in 1998. The audio companion was named "One of 1998's Best Audiobooks" by Publishers Weekly.
Currently in its 4th printing, her second book, What the L?, was nominated for the prestigious 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the highest accolade for a book from the LGBTQ community.
“In these times of political crisis, Kate Clinton has been there to complement bitter reality with her biting and perceptive wit. She is as much an activist as any political figure, wielding humor as her most effective weapon against injustice. The Center is proud to call Kate Clinton an ally in the quest for equality,” said Ginny Apuzzo, President of the Board of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc.
“An Evening with Kate Clinton” is sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center. The Center was established in 2005 and currently seeks a permanent home in Kingston. Already, more than 650 individuals and families have registered as Center members. The Center will provide social services, as well as cultural outreach and advocacy on issues important to the entire Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community. Center events and fundraisers are held throughout the year. To become a member and to learn of upcoming events, visit our Web site at www.lgbtqcenter.org or call 845-331-5300.
ATTENTION MEDIA: Kate Clinton and Virginia Apuzzo are available for advance interviews. You are welcome to attend this event as a working press member. For advance interviews, please call (845) 687-2284 or (845) 339-7963.
DOWNLOADS: You may download a high-resolution version of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center logo as well as a photograph of Kate Clinton.
