Belinda Carroll (comedian)
American standup comedian, writer, activist, actress, and singer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Belinda Carroll is an American standup comedian, writer, activist, actress, and singer.[1][2][3] She is the founder of the Portland Queer Comedy Festival,[4][1] organizer of the Portland Dyke March,[4] and is a co-organizer as well as date auction host and fundraiser emcee of the Butch Voices Portland Regional Conference.[5][6][7]
At age 22, Carroll held a Miss Leather title. She performs annually at Portland Pride[8][9] and in 2013, was named a finalist in the Advocate's Stand Out: The National Queer Comedy Search.[10]
In 2016, Carroll began working as a tour guide for Know Your City's "Pride Forever: LGBTQ History Tour."[11][8] She performs annually at Portland's Slut Walk. In 2018, she was designated a Queer Hero as part of Queer Heroes Northwest.[8] The same year, she was chosen as the sole representative for queer Oregon as featured in USA Today's Faces of Pride article.[12] In 2019, the theatre and advocacy group, CoHo Productions, listed Carroll as one of their Iconic Women as part of their This Woman portrait and interview series.[13]
In television, Carroll has appeared on shows such as Portlandia and in bit spots like an Oregon Lottery Winter Scratch-It's commercial.[14] She has written for print media outlets such as the Portland Mercury,[15][16] Huffington Post,[17] PQ Monthly,[18][19][20] and Cracked.com.[21]
Belinda was awarded the Woman of Achievement Award from the State of Oregon. The award was presented to her by Governor Kate Brown on March 10, 2020.