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So much for free speech eh
Date: Wed January 25, 2012
Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda on "Sex and the City," says she chose to be gay. This angered a constantly fighting to prove that they were born gay, and didn't make the choice.
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Listen to 'Sex and the City' Star Angers the Gay Community
Cynthia Nixon is best known for playing the red headed lawyer, Miranda, on the TV show (and movies) Sex and the City. But this week, the gay community is very unhappy with some comments she's made about sex...or, rather, her sexual orientation.
Nixon is engaged to a woman, who she has a child with, but before that she was married to a man for 15 years. She recently made a speech to a gay audience, and said “I've been straight and I've been gay, and gay is better.” She said that she chose to be gay. Afterward, she told New York Times magazine that she'd been asked to take back her comment - but she refused, saying: “For me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don't get to define my gayness for me.”
"I'm just very disappointed," says Sean Nettle, associate editor at Seattle Gay News. "I don't understand why someone in our community would decide, in 2012, while in three different states we're going for marriage equality, that now is the time to bring up that we choose to be gay. Something that a lot of our opponents peg us on is that we've chosen to be this way. I don't believe that to be the case. I do believe that you are born lesbian or gay."
Sure, Nixon technically has a right to define her own "gayness," but being a celebrity, she has a huge voice, and her comment was poorly timed.
"People are really paying attention to what you say, it's under a microscope. At this point, in our struggle for equality, from employment nondescrimination to marriage equality, I don't understand why someone, who is a part of our community, would even engage in this sort of conversation."
Nixon has actually been an advocate for gay rights and gay marriage, and has spoken at several rallies .
Back to what she said: “I've been straight and I've been gay, and gay is better.” I thought that was rather polarizing, and not a positive thing for someone in the gay rights movement to say that one orientation is better than the other.
"I don't think a lot of us in the LGBT community feel that one is better than the other. At the end of the day, the message that we're trying to get across is that we're all just people. We love the same. We hurt the same. What she really means, how I read into it, was 'I lived the straight lifestyle for a while and I found that I prefer women over men. That is a much better way to explain how you feel."
