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Comedian Wanda Syk married her partner 2008 and has not been shy about standg up for gay rights and gay marriage sce.

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WANDA SYK ON COMG OUT AS GAY TO THE WORLD AT 44: "I HAD TO SAY SOMETHG"

Comedian Wanda Syk had 'em rollg the aisl at the Whe Hoe Corrponnts Dner 2009, and she had Natalie Moral lghg up a storm on TODAY Thursday when she dropped by to discs her seri of upg electn specials, "NewNowNext Vote wh Wanda Syk."For Syk, the polil is personal -- she's not jt Ain-Amerin, but gay and married to her partner. But as she expl * wanda sykes gay marriage *

"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).

WANDA SYK ON GAY WEDDGS: 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO ATTEND ONE'

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Before Wanda me out as gay, she was married to rerd producer Dave Hall om 1991 until 1998. "For Syk, the polil is personal -- she's not jt Ain-Amerin, but gay and married to her partner.

WANDA SYK COM OUT AS GAY AND MARRIED

But as she explaed, she thought she uld unrstand why some people had negative perceptns of gay people. Comedian Wanda Syk married her partner 2008 and has not been shy about standg up for gay rights and gay marriage sce. Jog msnbc's Thomas Roberts Thursday, she joked about the fear that seems to fuel anti-gay-marriage rhetoric.

"If you don’t agree wh , then chanc are you don’t know anyone who’s gay or are close to someone who’s gay, so that creas your chanc of never beg ved to a same-sex weddg. "Syk, who led the 2009 Whe Hoe Corrponnts' Associatn Dner, also praised Print Obama's support for gay marriage and lled for to be approved on the natnal level.

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Wanda Syk on gay weddgs: 'You don't have to attend one' .

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