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Wanda Sykes Comes Out As A Lesbian by GO Magazine Staff November 17, 2008 |
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photo by Axelle via Bauer-Griffin
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The comedian Wanda Sykes officially came out as a lesbian on Saturday in front of a crowd of 1,000 gathered in Las Vegas to protest the recently passed Proposition 8 in California which bans gay marriage in the state. Sykes told the crowd that she had legally married her partner on October 25th. The Las Vegas rally was one of many around the country on Saturday.
Sykes told the crowd, "I don't really talk about my sexual orientation," she told the rally at the Las Vegas GLBT Community Center. "I didn't feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life. Everybody that knows me personally, they know I'm gay. But that's the way people should be able to live their lives...We took a huge leap forward and then got dragged 12 feet back. I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked — our community was attacked...Now, I gotta get in their face, I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay."
Sykes is currently on the CBS show, The New Adventures of Old Christine and spoke recently about homophobia in the black community on the Ellen Degeneres Show. Sykes has often spoke out for gay rights in the past, causing speculation about her sexuality. She went on to tell the protestors that she believed that the gay community would be stronger as a result of the passing Prop 8 and that the community would not stop fighting for gay marriage all around the country.
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