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Comedian Wanda Sykes says the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has led to her be more outspoken about being gay.

“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 told a crowd at a gay rights rally in Las Vegas on Saturday.

“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.

Sykes, who is known for her feisty and blunt style, said the passage of California’s Proposition 8 made her feel like she was “attacked.”

“Now, I gotta get in their face,” she said. “I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.”

Sykes’ appearance at the Las Vegas rally surprised organizers. She was in town performing at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

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  • http://asilee.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/wanda-sykes-comes-out-the-closet-is-gay-and-married-watch-video-here/ Wanda Sykes Comes Out The Closet, Is Gay And Married [Watch Video Here] « Asilee’s Blog

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/uneqmusic/ uneqmusic

    Go Wanda!! I am so proud that this smart, witty, black woman has chosen to take her stand against society. I used to always assume, but now I know the truth. It lifts my spirits to see these stars put their integrity on the line for a cause so meaningful to many. Hopefully one day, we too will have equality. I think we’re among the few left fighting the justice league. But, anything can happen, right?? My president is black…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/plainblackwoman/ plainblackwoman

    Sister Wanda, is welcome to her opinion but that does not make it acceptable.

    Homosexuality is an abomination not because I think so but because the Bible says it. The Bible cannot change, will not change for personal opinion. I pray that dear Wanda’s eyes will be open and join countless other trying to break free from this lifestyle.

    Planinblackwoman

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/voiper/ voiper

    For some reason, the Gay issue has become a household topic. If you are Gay, that’s your business and choice. However, why do we as citizens have to honor a lifestyle that’s deem unmoral and sinful in God’s eyes. I will not and cannot go against the teachings of God and the bible. I also will not hate, disrespect or demean you because you are gay. Being Gay does not compare to being Black or Minority. Please don’t use Civil Rights as a catalyst to engage your argument. Women and Men together can only further Gods physical life call reproduction. Wanda you are a proud Black Woman and we are proud of you, fight for a cause that represent all. The voters of Prop 8 has spoken

    BROTHER 4 A WOMAN

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    separation of church and state…obviously the US can’t seem to follow their own laws. If there is supposed to be a separation of church and state, then why is gay marriage being looked down upon because of the Bible. It’s a complete contradiction. I think that the government needs to make a standard government marriage system that DOES NOT involve the church, so that ALL couples can be acknowledged and get the rights they deserve. Until then, the government is just continually contradictiong itself. Separation of church and state, psh, that’s a lie that needs to be recognized. i love m,y president, and I hope he makes changes for equality for EVERYBODY, not just straight people. Wanda is right, she’s a black woman who is gay. She didn’t choose to love someone else. But I won’t go there, before a bunch of hypocritical Christians start throwing Bibles at me, acting like they are holier than thou. Sorry but the only judgement gays and lesbians should face should be from God, humans have no right to judge, because sin is sin, whetehr it’s being gay or fornication, fighting. God is not going to look at a straight person who committed a murder and a gay person and be like, “Sorry but the murderer goes to heaven and the gay man goes to hell.” Either way, God forgives sins, he is a forgiving God, he loves all his children, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, straight. God made all of his children the way they are. No one is taught who to love in this world, we just follow our hearts, and God knows that. God knows how our lives will turn out before we even get to his gates, it’s just SOME PEOPLE on Earth try to tell us how to live our lives by how they INTERPRET the Bible. The Bible basically says it’s wrong for a man to lay with another man. It doesn’t say anything about sex. So basically, I can say that it’s wrong for a father to lay with his son. I can say it’s wrong for a brother to lay with his brother. I can say it’s wrong for an uncle to lay with his nephew. See how easily people twist The Word to fit what they want to believe? That’s it from me. Any hate mail, negative remarks can be directed to my page. Peace, Love, and Happiness!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doubleap/ doubleap

    Read your bible Wanda. That’s all I have to say!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shindogg/ shindogg

    s**t! i thot wanda loved dick. i think she funny an look good. id gladly convert her ta straightness if she’d take her drawz off. i beat da breaks off dat p***y beleev me. queen latifah need sum dick 2. bend dat fyne big ass over fo me

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stephenfrazier/ stephenfrazier

    So, now calling a BLACK woman BLACK makes the guy a RACIST? My God, this makes a case for disbanding public schools! SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE? There is no such law, only a manipulation of a few words in the founding doc**ents. The phrase is not even in the constitution. Like abortion rights, this is only a case of JUDGE MADE LAW.

    As for some guy calling Wanda Sykes a “black Dyke”; She IS black. She says she is PROUD of being GAY. The whole world (even Holland) recognizes the word DYKE as descriptive of GAY WOMEN. That makes Wanda Sykes a BLACK DYKE. What’s the problem here? Is that supposed to be worse than her wishing that Rush Limbaugh DIE? Rush has shown he is a much bigger and better man than Wanda Sykes by completely ignoring her and her infantile brand of “humor”. I think she and her supporters are just jealous of Limbaugh’s FORTY MILLION DOLLAR PER YEAR CONTRACT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/laguanhaze/ laguanhaze

    After having read through some of this commentary it’s perfectly reasonable to see why black people remain at the back of the bus on issues. We still have this tether of ignorance around our necks put there by religion. It was placed there by our so called “benevolent” captors from so many years ago. If people are reading the Bible they’ll also recall that slavery was seen as an acceptable thing in “God’s” eyes. How about today? People have used “God’s” word to justify killing people (black people included) for so many things it blows me away that Christians call themselves such a thing. The Jews have never lived down killing Christ (which is a contradiction in terms). I had a white person tell me about miscegenation and how “God” doesn’t like black people and white people having sex with each other. Really? I suppose “God” shouldn’t have put people of different colors and races on the same damn planet; that would have led to them talking with each other. Later on they certainly would have ended up dancing with one another or perhaps even enslaving one another–but interbreeding? No way!!! And as long as black people have been getting duped by the Bible for being black and worthy of being enslaved what makes us so damn judgmental about homosexuals? I don’t get that one. Homosexuals have the same damn status that black people had (still have) in the Jim Crow south. Remember that black people? Did you forget how second class you were? How can you sit there on the one hand and quote the Bible about something that would have been you a few years previously? Don’t tell me I’m confusing the issue. Jesus didn’t mention the homosexuals because homosexuals had probably figured out the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule about religious people. Nevermind if you’re black, a witch or a Jew–those are dead giveaways. Black people really need to quit being amnesiacs like their right wing conservative holocaust deniers. That’s right a**holes like Hitler even had the state sanctioned church backing him back in the day he did all those atrocities to the Jews. In another 50-100 years, when church attendance drops off another 33% maybe people will get over “God’s” so called homophobia.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    Wanda, the people of California have spoken. Go and work on that infantile act you call humor.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/artsy_lady990/ artsy_lady990

    I’m not suprised. It was obvious before she ever came out.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FeetandToes1/ FeetandToes1

    It’s funny to me how gay folks keep trying to justify being gay.And to make matters worse is that they keep trying to blame God and compare themselves to black folks.If your gay then your gay which by the way is a choice.It comes from what you were taught or from what you’ve seen and no one ever explained it to you.God finds homosexual behavior detestable(Leviticus 18:22)God will judge those who practice homosexuality(Romans 1:18-32)Homosexuality has no place among Christians(1 corinthians 6:9-10).Homosexuality is an immorality which means: an immoral act or practice.I believe most gays know its wrong in what they are doing which is why they get so offended when people defend the bible or quote the bible.But if one gay person can quote a scripture that says it’s all right to be gay or if God says it’s all right to be gay i’ll be quiet.The bible teaches us about every problem we have in life.From being slaves to where we are today.And most of you will say we interpret the bible to what we want but the bible talks about sexual immorality throughout the bible and how when we don’t understand something we should go to God in prayer.It constantly tells how we should have patients and work hard and how things don’t change over night.And it doesn’t make anybody in the world better than you, but when you try to make excuses for it then yes you need to get on your knees and pray.And prayer does work.Nobody can judge you but God.But don’t say God made you that way because he didn’t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/whozdatladyE/ whozdatladyE

    IT BREAKS MY HEART TO SEE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE THAT PROCREATION IS WHAT KEEPS THE WORLD GOING. WE MUST PROCREATE(MALE/FEMALE) IN ORDER FOR THE WORLD TO EXIST. OTHERWISE WE HAVE TO DEPEND ON OCTO-MOM FOR LACK OF A BETTER REFERENCE TO MAKE ALL OF THE BABIES. I ONCE WATCHED A SCI-FI MOVIE WHERE CERTAIN WOMEN WERE BREEDERS LIKE A PUPPY-MILL. THEN WHAT ONLY A PRECIOUS FEW SPERM DONORS. PRETTY SOON DOWN THE LINE IF WE GO THAT ROUTE WE WILL ALL BE RELATED. BACK TO THE ADAM AND EVE DAYS. DO US ALL A FAVOR AND READ THE STORY OF SODOM AND GOMORRHAH WHERE WHEN THEY REPORTED THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR WAS REPORTED TO GOD AND GOD TOLD THEM TO FLEE AND DON’T LOOK BACK THAT HE WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT, THE MAIN FAMILY (THE FATHER AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS) ALL LOST THEIR SPOUSES (TURNED TO A PILLAR OF SALT BECAUSE THEY LOOKED BACK) AND THE DAUGHTERS HAD TO GET THEIR OWN FATHER DRUNK TO BE ABLE TO PRO-CREATE (MOABITES AND AMMONITES.) IT’S ONE THING TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHOICE (BECAUSE GOD GAVE US ALL FREEDOM OF CHOICE WITH CONSEQUENCES FOR MAKING THE WRONG CHOICE)BUT IT IS A WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME TO EXPECT EVERYONE ELSE TO FOLLOW YOUR CHOICE AND ACCEPT SODOM AND GOMORRHAH ALL OVER AGAIN. jUST IN ASE YOU FORGOT, THE PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION STATES “We the people to the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure Domestic Tranquility, provide a Common Defence, promote the General Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”. WELL THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT SO “UNITED” ANYMORE BECAUSE WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES DON’T YADA YADA YADA ANYMORE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE GO BACK IN THE CLOSET AND LIVE YOUR LIVES AS YOU PLEASE AND STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE THE REST OF US THAT IT’S OKAY. THERE WILL BE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES AND REPERCUSSIONS WITH ALL OF OUR CHOICES. YOU DO YOU AND LET US DO US. TRUTH BE TOLD I FEEL SORRY FOR US ALL, BECAUSE WE HAVE NO MORE CONTROL OVER THE CHOICES THAT YOU MAKE THAN YOU HAVE OVER THE CHOICES WE MAKE. WELL WE ARE ALL FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE HERE AND IT WILL BE UP TO THE WILL OF GOD TO STRAIGHTEN THIS MESS OUT. HEY IF “COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET” IS A FORM OF TRUE CONFESSIONS WITHOUT ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS AND REPENTING DOES IT COUNT. HEY BE GAY FOR WHATEVER REASON WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT, IT’S ON YOU, BUT PLEASE WHATEVER YOU DO LEAVE ME OUT OF IT. I HAVE NEVER EVER RESENTED GAY PEOPLE IN MY LIFE BUT YOU ALL ARE PUSHING ME TOWARDS RESENTMENT. YOU ARE ALL ACTING LIKE SPOILED BRATS TRYING TO GET YOUR WAY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REST OF THE FAMILY.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sweetbabydoll_d/ sweetbabydoll_d

    TO EACH HIS/HER OWN.WHAT PEOPLE DO AND WHO THEY SHARE THEIR LIVES WITH IS THEIR BUSINESS.WHOM THEY CHOOSE TO LOVE IS FOR THEM TO LOVE.NO ONE SHOULD PASS JUDGEMENT ON ANYONE FOR NO ONE IS PERFECT.YOU DO NOT CHOOSE TO BE GAY, YOU ARE BORN WITH THOSE GENES AND BRAIN MAKEUP ALREADY IN YOU.YOU DONT JUST “TURN” GAY.ALL PEOPLE ARE “GOD’S” CHILDREN NO MATTER WHAT RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, COLOR, STATUS, ETC. THE WORLDS IS UNIQUE IN ITS ARRAY OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, GOD CREATED IT SO.LIVE YOUR LIFE AS YOU SEE JUST AND LEAVE OTHERS TO LIVE THEIR LIVES AS THEY SEE JUST. WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN FORTHCOMINGS BEFORE WORRYING ABOUT OTHERS LIFESTYLE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    Yeah the same idiots trying to quote the bible about homosexuality…are the same ones that eat all kinds of pork and fornicate without the means of procreation…as well as drinking and everything else the bible prohibits…niggas pick and choose what they want out of the bible to suit their own comfort…”i hate gays cause the bible says it is wrongbut dammit i am gonna cook me a big ole pork chop and drink me a 40…cause God will forgive me if I repent.” Ignorant niggas are why we are so backwards. Get thee back to the back of the bus.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FeetandToes1/ FeetandToes1

    Where in the bible does it say you can’t eat pork?I’ve heard that before and yet i haven’t come across it.I read the bible and i haven’t come across that does anyone know what scripture that is?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nish83/ Nish83

    It funny who ppl talk abotu gay being wrrong yet the pick and choose whcih sins in the bible ar ok to commit. Ppl see a young girl pregnant out of wedlock and throw a baby show for her like it isnt a problem! Like she shoulve have been having sex out of wedlock and like its no big and that its ok.

    Or awoman on that hand how has many kids out of wedlock , sure they mention the responibility factor but to they bring the moral issue into the factor! they spout stuff about the bible and being gay is wrong but the fornicating and having babies out of wedlock and living un the same roof with a man that isnt your husband and a woman that isnt your wife, nothing wrong with those. they say being gay is a sin yet ther committing sins 7 days of the week and notgiving it a second though or thinking twice about it, its normal to them and most importantly its ok to them. i suppose they don tbeliev eGod really cares about those sins. Ppl really dont seem to have problem with premartial sex, actually ppl tend to look crazy when you say you ARE not having premartial sex and youre waiting until youre married. They look at you like your from another planet when you say stuff like that, its the culture I guess. I guess picking anf choosing youor sin(s) is totally ok in some cases, the casese where the majority is doing I guess.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Vivaciously_Sweet/ Vivaciously_Sweet

    ok wow.. I’m reading a lot on here that’s just wrong… the bible says judge not lest ye be judged… or am I mistaken.. people will love whoever they love.. I don’t know many gay people who decide to be gay but if that is their choice then they need to be allowed tio have that choice. saying someone cannot have all the things you have because they are different is extremly hypocritical. We want ourselves to be equal with everyone else but your not willing to allow the next man to do the same… and everyone wonders why there’s so much hatred in the world.. my theory is you do you and i will love you no less as a person, as my brother or sister…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4urnfo/ 4urnfo

    Hello people, my take on homosexuality is this, it should be calssified as a sickness of the mind, a chemical imballance in the body, an electrical short circuit in the message relay system. That is my take. It is not a sin, just like people are born with fused limbs, cojoined twins, medicine can fix all of these. Homosexuality can be cured. It has no real purpose, it produces no offsprings. For men, the act is repulsive, women are cleaner, but still questionable. I dot have any ill will against gay people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Bobby_LT/ Bobby_LT

    The purpose of a man and a woman being together is to create life by a process called reproduction. We human beings are the only things that turn gay. I’ve never seen a gay dog, cat, cow, or any other animal. I’ve never seen anyone take a lamp plug(male) and stick it into another lamp to produce light. It is placed into an outlet(female)then the lamp produces light.
    homosexuality is wrong. Anytime you have to wear a strap-on to have sex(ladies). Something is wrong with that picture. Anytime you have to consistantly use petroleum jelly(men), something is wrong.
    A woman body is designed to recieve a man’s body. (No need to go to the store to buy extras). people who think that being gay is right are confused. Its unatural and a perversion of what God intended, a union between a man and a woman.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dowiegirl/ dowiegirl

    I believe in this anyone who wants to be married should be married regardless of gender. You know about 50 or 60 years ago, Black people couldn’t marry outside of our race. We couldn’t even associate with white people in regards to marriage? God loves all of his children regardless of what they do in the bedroom. It’s sad that family values have to do with a mother and father when half of the divorce rate in this country ends in divorce.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Icon-2010/ Icon-2010

    What else is she going to say? she’s Gay..a Crackhead will support crack too..SMH

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