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Trevor Project Scores Big With Cracked Xmas

California’s passage of the same-sex marriage ban Proposition 8 was a recurring theme running through Cracked Xmas 11, the annual holiday fund-raiser for the teen help line the Trevor Project. Newly out comedian Wanda Sykes got a standing O, Anne Hathaway auctioned herself off for a night of drinking, and Fantasia stomped her way through the audience in song.



 Anne Hathaway, Charles Robbins (Executive Director, The Trevor Project) and Sigourney Weaver. Photo by Jennifer Kennedy

California’s passage of the same-sex marriage ban Proposition 8 was a recurring theme running through Cracked Xmas 11, the annual holiday fund-raiser for the teen help line the Trevor Project.

Held at Los Angeles’s Wiltern Theater, the December 7 event brought thousands out for what the Trevor Project describes as its annual “evening of irreverent comedy, music, and awards.” One of the charity’s main fund-raisers, Cracked Xmas helps the Trevor Project maintain its 24-7 crisis and suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youths. Since its inception in 1998, Trevor has taken over 100,000 phone calls.

After opening the show with a performance from the traveling production of the Tony Award–winning Spring Awakening, comedian Wanda Sykes was introduced by Kath & Kim stars Selma Blair and Mikey Day.

Sykes, who recently came out at a post-election Prop. 8 protest in Las Vegas, got a standing ovation when she came onstage.

“It’s like you’ve never seen a black lesbian before,” Sykes quipped.

During a stand-up routine that referenced everything from Michelle Obama’s “nice butt” to Sykes’s own battle with her stomach roll (“I call her Esther,” Sykes said, “my Esther roll”), the comedian touched on Prop. 8. Sykes ridiculed the arguments put forth by Prop. 8 supporters that banning same-sex marriage was necessary to protect traditional marriage.

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  • Name: Mary
    Date posted: 12/11/2008 12:31:00 PM
    Hometown: Milwaukee

    Comment:

    Have a wonderful time! Wish I could have been there to see the auction.

  • Name: John Ealy
    Date posted: 12/10/2008 6:30:00 PM
    Hometown: San Diego

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    Hello there, I am the guy who won the auction for the date with Anne Hathaway! I am so excited, please contact me if you have any further questions.



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