{"id":1403495,"date":"2022-03-27T20:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403495"},"modified":"2022-03-27T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:59:40","slug":"wanda-sykes-opens-oscars-announcing-to-people-in-florida-we-are-going-to-have-a-gay-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wanda-sykes-opens-oscars-announcing-to-people-in-florida-we-are-going-to-have-a-gay-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Sykes Opens Oscars Announcing To People In Florida: \u2018We Are Going To Have A Gay Night\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwanda-sykes-opens-oscars-announcing-to-people-in-florida-we-are-going-to-have-a-gay-night%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403495&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Wanda-Sykes-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Wanda Sykes opened the 94th Academy Awards show Sunday announcing that they were going to have a great night, then sending a message to the people of Florida that they were \u201cgoing to have a gay night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the opening monologue at the Oscars, the 58-year-old co-host of the show stood next to the other two hosts, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall, and cracked a few jokes about the night\u2019s nominees before remarking on Florida\u2019s bill HB 1557, the so-called \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have a great night, and for you people in Florida, we are going to have a gay night,\u201d Sykes shared.<\/p>\n<p>Her co-hosts then started dancing around and saying \u201cgay, gay, gay, gay\u201d over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>The first award given for the night was for the Best Supporting Actress. The winner was Ariana DeBose for her part in \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her award speech, DeBose talked about being queer, and sent a message to anyone who\u2019s ever questioned their identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLastly, imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus,\u201d Debose explained. \u201cLook into her eyes, you see an openly queer woman of color and Latina who found her life and strength in art. That\u2019s what I believe we\u2019re here to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo anybody who has ever questioned your identity ever, ever, ever, or you find yourself living in the gray spaces \u2026 I promise you this: there is indeed a place for us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEncanto\u201d star Jessica Darrow talked about being queer during her interview on the red carpet earlier in the day, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deadline\/status\/1508214945128886279?s=27\">reported<\/a> Deadline. She was asked about Disney and the so-called \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I am being queer and gorgeous, and I\u2019m on the red carpet, and I\u2019m very happy to represent fellow gorgeous queer people that consume Disney,\u201d Darrow shared. \u201cWe are all here. We are the face of Disney at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, this is what I have to say about that,\u201d the actress said specifically about the bill, \u201cgay, gay, gay, gay, gay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd me? So gay,\u201d the Disney star added. \u201cAnd I love to be gay.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oscars?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Oscars<\/a> | &#8216;Encanto&#8217; actress Jessica Darrow: &#8220;Here I am being queer and gorgeous, and I&#8217;m on the red carpet, and I&#8217;m very happy to represent fellow gorgeous queer people&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xOddW58dMW\">pic.twitter.com\/xOddW58dMW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/1508214945128886279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>E! won the Oscars virtue signal award first for the night when trans actor Laverne Cox hosted the red carpet coverage for the network.<\/p>\n<p>Cox hosting wasn\u2019t the only virtue signaling going at the show. Several stars wore blue ribbons on their outftits to show support for Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of the country on February 24.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Celebrities pay tribute to Ukraine on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oscars?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Oscars<\/a> red carpet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/01PkP6ISVO\">https:\/\/t.co\/01PkP6ISVO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4LQD464Law\">pic.twitter.com\/4LQD464Law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1508219345696141313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In one case, superstar actress Jamie Lee Curtis wore her blue ribbon on a finger during her appearance on the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p><i>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! 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If you\u2019re not a Daily Wire member yet, click <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i> to join us so you can win this once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda Sykes opened the 94th Academy Awards show Sunday announcing that they were going to have a great night, then sending a message to the people of Florida that they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}