Gay legend Wanda Syk has thrown down the gntlet for trans rights her new Netflix special I'm An Entertaer.
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- WANDA SYK ON COMG OUT AS GAY TO THE WORLD AT 44: "I HAD TO SAY SOMETHG"
- WANDA SYK COM OUT AS GAY AND MARRIED
- WANDA SYK GAY AS THE DAY IS LONG
- GAY LEGEND WANDA SYK SLAMS ‘STUPID AND HATEFUL’ ANTI-TRANS ‘BATHROOM’ BILLS
- WANDA SYK OPENS OSRS ANNOUNCG TO PEOPLE IN FLORIDA: ‘WE’RE GONNA HAVE A GAY NIGHT’
- OSRS 2022: WANDA SYK SLAMS FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' LEGISLATN HOST MONOLOGUE
- WANDA SYK SAYS SHE HAD TO E OUT TO SHOW THAT LGBT+ EQUALY ISN’T JT FOR ‘WHE GAY MEN’
WANDA SYK ON COMG OUT AS GAY TO THE WORLD AT 44: "I HAD TO SAY SOMETHG"
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"It was not planned at all, " she told Meredh Vieira 2015, jokg that she was later treated as a "unirn" for simply beg Black and gay. In fact, Syk was 40 when she me out to her parents and has said she "reprsed" her gay inty for years (she and mic producer Dave Hall were married between 1991 and 1998).
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WANDA SYK COM OUT AS GAY AND MARRIED
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Comedian and actrs Wanda Syk officially me out this weekend, announcg to the timated crowd of 1, 000 gathered Las Vegas at one of the many ralli for gay rights takg place around the untry on Saturday that she’s gay, and that she legally married her wife California on Oct. Syk (who divorced her hband of seven years 1998), has spoken out about gay rights issu many tim the past, recently participated a mpaign to fight anti-gay slurs, and has openly referred to her wife some of her stand-up rout.
“Everybody that knows me personally, they know I’m gay.
WANDA SYK GAY AS THE DAY IS LONG
I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.
GAY LEGEND WANDA SYK SLAMS ‘STUPID AND HATEFUL’ ANTI-TRANS ‘BATHROOM’ BILLS
4 electn, Syk talked about homophobia wh the black muny on The Ellen DeGener Show, acknowledgg there are differenc between the black civil rights movement and the gay civil rights movement, but sayg, “discrimatn is discrimatn, and of all people, black people should know about discrimatn. She and her wife are among the 18, 000 gay and lbian upl who married durg the four months same-sex marriage was legal California, cludg many lbian upl the entertament dtry.
Syk said her speech that she believ passg Proposn 8 will ultimately backfire for those who are agast gay marriage. Instead of havg gay marriage California, no, we’re gonna have gay marriage across the untry. Everybody that knows me personally they know I'm gay.
I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay. Proud to Be Gay [AP]. From -hostg the notor Osrs ceremony where Will Smh smacked Chris Rock, to passnately showg up for the Hollywood wrers’ strike, the gay edian, who me out as a lbian one month after marryg her wife Alex 2008, is always at the foreont of nversatn – and her latt Netflix stand-up special, I’m an Entertaer, looks set to ntue the trend.
WANDA SYK OPENS OSRS ANNOUNCG TO PEOPLE IN FLORIDA: ‘WE’RE GONNA HAVE A GAY NIGHT’
Before Wanda me out as gay, she was married to rerd producer Dave Hall om 1991 until 1998.
I'm a black, gay woman. Hate, Gay, Thkg. New York, Gay, California.
OSRS 2022: WANDA SYK SLAMS FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' LEGISLATN HOST MONOLOGUE
Gay, Black, Proud. Two years later, the uple got married and Wanda publicly me out as gay a few weeks after their weddg. A few weeks later, Wanda publicly me out as gay while givg an impromptu speech at an equaly rally Las Vegas.
Wanda Syk opened the 94th Amy Awards show Sunday announcg that they were gog to have a great night, then sendg a msage to the people of Florida that they were gog to “have a gay night. ”Durg the openg monologue at the Osrs, the 58-year-old -host of the show stood next to the other two hosts, Amy Schumer and Rega Hall, and cracked a few jok about the night’s nome before remarkg on Florida’s bill HB 1557, the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “We’re gonna gog have a great night tonight, and for you people Florida, we’re gonna have a gay night, ” Syk -hosts then started dancg around and sayg “gay, gay, gay, gay” over and over first award given for the night was for the Bt Supportg Actrs.
WANDA SYK SAYS SHE HAD TO E OUT TO SHOW THAT LGBT+ EQUALY ISN’T JT FOR ‘WHE GAY MEN’
She was asked about Disney and the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill. ”“Listen, this is what I have to say about that, ” the actrs said specifilly about the bill, “gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. So gay, ” the Disney star add.
“And I love to be gay. (AFP/Getty)Wanda Syk ed the fal le of the Osrs openg monologue to take aim at the state of Florida for s ntroversial "don't say gay", who is openly gay, livered a gag-filled monologue alongsi -hosts Amy Schumer and Rega Hall, but nclud wh a reference to the more: Beyoncé performance starts Osrs wh a bangThe bill, which passed the state senate this month and is formally known as the Parental Rights Edutn Bill, would lim "classroom stctn" on "sexual orientatn or genr inty" the monologue me to a close, Syk said: "We're gonna have a great night tonight — and for you people Florida, we're gog to have a gay night.