Wanda Sykes Comes Out

Wanda Sykes spoke at a Prop 8 protest in Las Vegas yesterday and surprised the crowd with the news that she is gay. Sykes said she and her partner were married in California last month. The comedian had not previously discussed her sexual orientation publicly (and divorced her husband in 1998).

“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. Everybody that knows me personally they know I’m gay. But that’s the way people should be able to live their lives,” she said.

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