And I'm fighting for her marriage, too.
AfterEllen.com's Sarah Warn yesterday on the site:
Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes officially came out this weekend, announcing to the estimated crowd of 1,000 gathered in Las Vegas at one of the many rallies for gay rights taking place around the country on Saturday that she's gay, and that she legally married her wife in California on Oct. 25.
Sykes (who divorced her husband of seven years in 1998), has spoken out about gay rights issues many times in the past, recently participated in a campaign to fight anti-gay slurs, and has openly referred to her wife in some of her stand-up routines.
AP:
In Las Vegas, comedian Wanda Sykes made a surprise appearance at the rally Saturday. Sykes, who was in town performing on the Strip, said the passage of Proposition 8 has led her to be more outspoken about her sexuality.
“You know, I don't really talk about my sexual orientation. 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,” Sykes said. “Everybody that knows me personally, they know I'm gay. But that's the way people should be able to live their lives.”
Wanda from her 2006 Comedy Central special Sick and Tired talking about gay marriage in a clip after the jump.
Being officially out to the world is a big deal. You gotta be proud of that.
Image above from the recent gay marriage episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine featuring Sykes, Hamish Linklater and show star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, courtesy CBS.
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