Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes, 44, came out of the closet and finally admits that she is gay.
“I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay,” she said at a Las Vegas rally on Saturday.
Wanda was there protesting the legislation of California’s Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage.
She adds, “We took a huge leap forward [in electing Barack Obama] and then got dragged about 12 steps back. Our community was attacked.”
On October 25 of this year Wanda Sykes married her partner, but keeps her personal life very private.
“If we had equal rights, we shouldn’t have to be standing out here demanding something that we automatically should have as citizens of this country,” Sykes said. “I said, ‘You know what, now I gotta get in your face.’ And that’s what we have to do now. They have pissed off the wrong group of people!”
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