Wanda Syk, producer on Apple TV+ seri Visible: Out On Televisn, says she me out 2008 to show that LGBT+ equaly isn't jt for "whe gay men".
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- WANDA SYK ON COMG OUT AS GAY TO THE WORLD AT 44: "I HAD TO SAY SOMETHG"
- 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"
"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).
Also, I wanted to put a face on who that was affectg, not jt whe gay men. I also love stori where you have gay characters, but ’s not jt about beg gay, ’s not jt about inty.
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 SAYS SHE HAD TO E OUT TO SHOW THAT LGBT+ EQUALY ISN’T JT FOR ‘WHE GAY MEN’
Before Wanda me out as gay, she was married to rerd producer Dave Hall om 1991 until 1998. "I am certa this is not the first time we've elected a racist, sexist, homophobic print, " Syk quipped, per the Boston Herald. " She me out publicly as gay 2008 at a rally support of same-sex marriage.
As she told The Advote, she'd known she was gay sce childhood, but "actually ma the choice to be straight as a kid" when she realized beg a lbian "wasn't gonna fly" her nservative, relig fay. Wanda Syk' cisn to e out as gay was not a refully thought-out plan.
Wanda Syk has said that part of the reason she me out 2008 was to put a face on LGBT+ equaly that wasn’t “jt whe gay men”. Syk, whose work as a wrer was first regnised 1999, when she won a primetime Emmy award for wrg on The Chris Rock Show, ntued: “Also, I wanted to put a face on who that was affectg, not jt whe gay men.