WANDA SYKES COMES OUT AS A LESBIAN. TALKS PROP H8TE

To be honest, I didn't think this was new news. Anyone who has good gaydar (and my shit's rarely wrong) could have clearly seen the signs.

Here's how the AP is reporting it:

"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."

Amen sister! I too am also proud to be a black woman and gay. Well at least when "I'm Every Woman" is playing (the Chaka version).

I'm very happy that Wanda has always decided to live her life on her own terms and felt that she needed to speak out on an issue that is so dear to her. Not many black gay celebrities are giving their views on how they feel about Prop 8. I don't know if they're in hiding, or the media only feels Prop 8 views only apply to people like Ellen DeGeneres and Melissa Etheridge (or let's just call a spade a spade: WHITE GAYS).

We need more blacks to be as courageous as Wanda. Could Miss Latifah be next?