Bravo, Wanda Sykes!

The funnywoman and co-star of The New Adventures of Old Christine officially came out of the closet yesterday.

Sykes also announced she married her girlfriend on Oct. 25, just days before the passage of Proposition 8, which has banned gay marriage in California.

“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," said Sykes, 44, while speaking at a Las Vegas rally for gay marriage.

“I got pissed off,” she continued. “They pissed me off. I said, 'You know what? Now I gotta get in your face.' And that’s what we all have to do now. They pissed off the wrong group of people. They have galvanized a community...Instead of having gay marriage in California, we’re going to get it across the country.”

Read on for what else she had to say...

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How are Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo and her husband, Chris Ivery, going to celebrate their upcoming one-year wedding anniversary?

With a trip to Las Vegas, baby!

The couple, whose anniversary is on Monday, Nov. 10, have plans to stay in a "plush suite" at the Palazzo this weekend, a source tells me.

They'll get their party on Saturday night at Tao restaurant and nightclub, which will be celebrating its third anniversary. Pompeo and Ivery will be joined for some of their celebrating by Pompeo's former Grey's costar star Kate Walsh and her Hollywood executive hubby, Alex Young, the source says.

Pompeo has another big day to toast—she turns 39 on Saturday.

"They wanted to do something special," the source said, "but didn't want to go too far because of Ellen's filming schedule."

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Melissa Etheridge knows firsthand what it’s like to be denied the right to adopt children because she’s gay.

“I remembered being a new mom in 1997,” she writes in a blog post at The Daily Beast. “I followed the long trail of red tape to find a way to adopt my children so they could be covered by health insurance, or so I could see them in the hospital in case of some emergency, along with dozens of other reasons.”

Sadly, she was denied because California law prohibited social workers from adoption approval of same-sex couples. But then with the help of a lawyer, she was able to convince a judge to overrule the denial and allow the adoption to go through.

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From Pretty in Pink to pink triangles...

Molly Ringwald is the latest celeb to come out against Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative that seeks to overturn the state's legalization of gay marriage.

In a PSA produced by gay entertainment group Homotracker, the star of TV's The Secret Life of the American Teenager plays one-half of a straight couple being harranged by a buffoon who is against gay marriage.

Margaret Cho also shot a PSA for the group. Cho actually began marrying same-sex couples after being deputized in San Francisco shortly after the California Supreme Court ruled in favor gay unions in May.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt says people need to lay off Cheryl Burke.

“I think her dancing is what everyone needs to be concentrating on,” Hewitt said Saturday at St. Jude’s Runway for Life Gala in Beverly Hills.

If you haven't heard by now, Burke has been facing some rather nasty press for putting on some weight since last season's Dancing With the Stars. Hewitt battled similar criticism about a year ago after paparazzi snapped some unflattering shots of her in a bathing suit while vacationing in Hawaii.

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Pete Wentz and Barbra Streisand in the same room together!

What ever will they talk about?

Actually, there's an easy answer for that: gay marriage.

Wentz's band, Fall Out Boy, and Babs are just two of the boldfaced names expected at a Vote No on Prop 8 fundraiser Oct. 21 in Beverly Hills.

For those who haven't heard, Proposition 8 is a November ballot initiative that seeks to overturn California's legalization of gay marriage.

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