Oh please Rosie :eyes:
She's really irritated me over the Prop 8 situation and her smug comments. Rosie O'Donnell sees herself as a gay marriage pioneer -- and seems to have little time for those who believe she could have done more to oppose Proposition 8. According to The Times' Denise Martin:
Some reporters questioned why O'Donnell has been "oddly absent" from the uproar of California's passing of Proposition 8, which denies same-sex marriage. But the comedian scoffed. "This is nothing new for me. When I got married it was an act of civil disobedience as much as it was a love story. There is not any person in the country who doesn't know I'm for gay marriage. I'm not vocal enough? I got married before anyone else did. I've been living it and living it for a very long time."
Another comedian, Wanda Sykes, announced she's gay and is now protesting against the passing of Prop. 8. ABC News reports she might be a bridge between gay-rights groups and the African American community, which according to exit polls backed the ban on same-sex unions:
Living life in the spotlight -- as black and gay -- is twice as hard, according to other blacks who say they are stigmatized by society at large for their sexual orientation and again by their own homophobic culture. Sykes, who was unavailable for comment, is one of only a handful of black, gay celebrities to protest California's Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban that was passed with the help of a coalition of religious groups, many of them black.
--Shelby Grad
Photos: AP; LAT file
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/rosie-odonnell.html