Comedian Wanda Sykes, who stars in the CBS sitcom “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” says the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has led her to be more outspoken about being gay.

“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,” Sykes, 44, told a crowd at a gay-rights rally in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Sykes said the passage of California’s Proposition 8 made her feel as if she had been “attacked.”

“Now, I got to get in their face,” she said. “I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.”

Sykes married her girlfriend in California less than two weeks before the new law went into effect. “When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage also recognized in Nevada, in Arizona, all the way to New York,” she said.