American actress and comedian Wanda Sykes came out at a rally 2008, challenging Proposition 8, a bill which successfully overturned the legalisation of same-sex marriage in California.
At the time, Wanda’s personal life was quite secretive, although she was privately out and had married her wife that same year, and writing in The Oprah Magazine she reflected on her decision to come out at the time. “The drive behind me coming out publicly was when it became political, back when Proposition 8 was