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Jay Leno to Wanda Sykes: ‘I Made You Gay’

3:01AM Kyle Buchanan | Nature, nurture, or Leno? That was the question last night when Jay Leno hosted the newly out (and pissed at Proposition 8) Wanda Sykes. More »

Race-And-Gay-Baiting ABC Reporter Susan Donaldson James Unclear On Concept Of ‘Double Indemnity’

5:12AM Seth | ABCNews.com was way ahead of the Prop 8 curve, promoting early debate on what would evolve into the hot button topic of the day with such non-award-winning reportage from the front lines of the sexual-orientation culture wars as “Stars’ Gay Marriage Possible Career Suicide,” and “H’wood’s Bisexual Double Standard: Hot for Girls, Gross for Guys.” Today, they once again enter the emotional fray, with a sensitively argued think-piece entitled “Prop 8 Sparks Gay-Black Divide: Wanda Sykes Comes Out Amid Black Homophobia and Interracial Division Between Gays.” It begins: More »

Wanda Sykes: So In Favour of Gay Marriage That She Had One Herself

2:13AM Kyle Buchanan | Though Wanda Sykes has taped PSAs asking us to never again use the phrase, “That’s so gay,” we hope she’ll make an exception in this case, because you know what’s so gay? Wanda Sykes! The comedian has been a constant presence at the anti-Prop 8 marches in Los Angeles over the last week and a half, but on Saturday, she popped up at a Las Vegas rally and officially came out as a lesbian. What’s more, she revealed that she went ahead and married a woman in October — and it wasn’t Julia Louis-Dreyfus! Yes, we just made a joke about a New Adventures of Old Christine plotline. We’re sure that five of you are very pleased. After the jump, relive the biggest hint Sykes ever gave us — her riff on gay marriage from the stand-up special Sick and Tired: More »

Massive Prop. 8 Protest Galvanizes Gays, Allies, Random Celebs

2:28AM Kyle Buchanan | “NO MORE MR. NICE GAY,” read one of the many signs last night in Los Angeles as Defamer attended a huge anti-Prop. 8 rally that drew several thousand — then set them marching all over the city. (Your Defamer was also partial to another sign, referencing the easily-passed, animal rights-granting Prop. 2: “I Want What the Chickens Got!”) It was powerful, emotional stuff, and even more fireworks should erupt today at 2pm, when the crowd takes their fight to the Mormon temple on Santa Monica Blvd to protest the many millions the church sunk into passing the anti-gay Prop. 8. Until then, though, let’s relive the night the best way Defamer knows how: with celebrity spottings and silly anecdotes! You can see the Robert Rodriguez-less Rose McGowan protesting up above — who else was there, and who wasn’t?

Anti-’That’s So Gay’ Campaign Sparks Fears P.C. Forces Will Target ‘That’s So Raven’ Next

8:40AM Seth | A new campaign launched today by the Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network seeks to educate American youth about the power of words to hurt—particularly when those words are: “That’s,” followed by “so gay.” Joining them in their crusade is the extremely so-gay Wanda Sykes, and the not-so-gay-but-so- gay-worshipped Hilary Duff. They star in two PSAs (both after the jump) in which they casually saunter up to some pricky teenagers, and point out that calling something gay—when they don’t mean it in the “fabulous” or “matter-of-factly enjoys engaging in sex with someone possessing similar genitalia” senses of the word—is just plain wrong. Its heart is in the right place, but we think the campaign would have been more successful had it suggested a less-destructive replacement expression, like—oh, we don’t know—”That’s so Seacresty,” or “That’s so Track.” More »