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ARTICLE VIEW:
Wanda Sykes delivers epic 26-minute acceptance speech, mentions every
other winner at event and speaks up for trans people
By Dan Heching, CNN
Updated:
7:53 PM EDT, Sat June 7, 2025
Source: CNN
closed the night in typical bombastic and hilarious fashion at the
Critics Choice Association‘s Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema &
Television on Friday night in Los Angeles, delivering an impromptu
speech that ran the gamut from community organizing to admitting she
hasn’t seen the Amazon Prime show “Etoile.”
Sykes was awarded the last trophy of the evening, for career
achievement, wrapping a show that saw other LGBTQ-identifying stars
acknowledged for their work over the past year, including Nathan Lee
Graham from “Mid-Century Modern” and the cast of “.”
As Sykes began her speech, she held onto one of the cards that was on
every table at the event, listing the evening’s winners. She joked
that she should have stopped drinking by the time Liv Hewson – who
was awarded a rising star statuette for their work on
“Yellowjackets” toward the middle of the evening – came onstage.
Admitting she had not written a prepared speech – “I didn’t know
it was going to be this big of a deal,” she quipped – Sykes then
proceeded to go down the list of winners and mention every single one,
including her “Other Two” costar Gideon Glick, who was recognized
for his supporting work on “Etoile” (Glick’s win was bittersweet;
while it was his birthday and the entire room broke out into a
rendition of “Happy Birthday” for him, news broke mere hours before
the award show began that ).
“I didn’t watch the show,” Sykes jokingly admitted on stage after
talking about how much she loved Glick’s speech earlier, in which he
reminisced about his mother’s acceptance of him when he came out at
12 and some of the struggles he later faced as a working LGBTQ+ actor.
Sykes – who was recognized for her work in standup and as a film and
television actor – also called out CCA award-winners Megan Stalter of
“” and “Saturday Night Live” cast member , both of whom she
thanked for being unapologetically, and hilariously, themselves.
About Sasheer Zamata – who won a breakthrough performance award for
her work on “Agatha All Along” and mentioned during her speech that
she came out as queer last year – Sykes joked that she knew the was
queer before Zamata did.
Toward the end of her speech, Sykes addressed the reality TV award
winners of the night, the Season 17 drag queens of “RuPaul’s Drag
Race,” calling the show a “staple.”
“Y’all were out there making noise for us before all of this,”
Sykes said, gesturing to the event, before adding, “Drag queens have
always been .”
Finally, Sykes shouted out , who had been awarded the groundbreaker
award just before her, joking that the “the LGBTQ+ community is such
fire, that we got a new member, we got Niecy!” She also thanked
Nash-Betts’ wife Jessica Betts “for doing your job.” (Nash-Betts
and Betts .)
To conclude her speech, Sykes addressed the LGBTQ+ community as a
whole, but also said that protecting the trans segment of the community
is “our fight,” since “they are right now.”
“We just got to love hard. So that means you gotta be proud, you
gotta be loud, we have to protect our trans brothers and sisters,”
she said. “Thats our next movement.”
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