Bawdy comedian and actress Wanda Sykes decided to tell it like it is in November 2008, when she came out as a lesbian at a gay-rights rally in Las Vegas. Though she had not been in the closet, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star had never publicly discussed her sexual orientation, preferring to keep her private life out of the spotlight. But she was galvanized by the anti–gay marriage ballot initiative Prop 8 in California and vowed to fight against the measure, declaring onstage, “Now I gotta get in their face … I’m proud to be gay.”
Anderson Cooper Comes Out: How Other Celebrities Did It
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