Know Wanda Sykes? She’s gay. Don’t know Wanda Sykes? Wanda Sykes is gay. Know that Wanda Sykes is gay? There’s nothing for you here.

But, yes, Wanda Sykes is gay. Sykes came out this weekend at a gay rally in Las Vegas this weekend, possibly as a reaction to news that Proposition 8 was supposedly voted through on the African American vote, or possibly just because Wanda Sykes knows that California’s lawmakers are huge fans of her films Evan Almighty and My Super-Ex Girlfriend and thought she could influence them by being gay.

But let’s look at the big picture here – Wanda Sykes is gay. That means we’re either going to have to strike her off our list of potential wives or grow a vagina. And, since we quite liked Wanda Sykes’ voice work on Brother Bear 2, it looks like we’ll be spending the next few months with our willy in a propagator, willing it to develop a labia or something. We don’t really know how it works.

Women, you have finally achieved equality. For too long, it’s only been men who’ve had a late-blooming ethnic minority homosexual celebrity in their midst, and George Takei has done a wonderful job of representing them. But meanwhile, women had been kept in the dark – until now.

Because now 44-year-old Wanda Sykes has levelled the playing field by coming out as gay, too. She’s just like George Takei, except she’s black, her genitals look different and she doesn’t describe everything as ‘delicious’ in a confusingly creepy way all the time.

Anyway, Wanda Sykes – from The New Adventures Of Old Christine and consistently the funniest thing in every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm she’s ever been in – decided to publicly come out in a Las Vegas rally protesting about the passing of Proposition 8 in California on election day. People reports:

“I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay… If we had equal rights, we shouldn’t have to be standing out here demanding something that we automatically should have as citizens of this country. I said, ‘You know what, now I gotta get in your face.’ And that’s what we have to do now. They have pissed off the wrong group of people!”

You hear this, powers that be? Either you take action and overturn Proposition 8 now or else it won’t just be Wanda Sykes who comes out as gay, it’ll be every single supporting cast member from every single middling sitcom you can think of. Today it’s Wanda Sykes, but tomorrow it might be Kevin Dunn from Samantha Who. And then the slobby brother from My Name Is Earl. And then Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother. Is that what you want, powers that be? Do you want Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother to suddenly turn gay? Well, do you?

Still, if Wanda Sykes has found happiness in her life, then we sincerely wish her well. And, as upset as she might be about Proposition 8, you have to admit that her coming out is a positive sign that progress is being made.

After all, when Jodie Foster came out nobody cared because everyone already knew she was gay. But now that Wanda Sykes has come out, nobody cares because they just don’t care. That’s progress.

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