The Big Gay Sketch Show’s Kate McKinnon is set to make Saturday Night Live history as the long-running sketch show’s first out lesbian featured player.
McKinnon’s first appearance could happen as soon as next week’s Sofia Vergara-hosted show, according to Deadline.
A regular with the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in New York City, McKinnon has appeared on Funny or Die’s Vag Magazine, about third-wave feminists who launch a magazine. For three seasons she appeared on Logo’s Rosie O'Donnell produced The Big Gay Sketch Show creating memorable characters including Fitzwilliam the boy who longed for a vagina.
The comedian has also appeared in several one-woman shows including Disenchanted, “a satirical look at popular fairy tale characters years past their prime,” according to the Huffington Post.
While McKinnon is the first out lesbian to appear as a regular on SNL, Terry Sweeney became the first gay man to appear on NBC’s iconic sketch show back during the 1985/86 season, according to AfterEllen.
Watch McKinnon in action in Vag Magazine:
