Cynthia Nixon’s choice

Cynthia Nixon says she chose to become a lesbian, said Alex Witchel in The New York Times. “I gave a speech recently to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better,’” says the Sex and the City star. “They tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be 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.”

Nixon came out as a lesbian in 2004, after breaking up with childhood sweetheart Daniel Mozes, with whom she has two children. She’s now engaged to Christine Marinoni, who gave birth to their son last February. Both relationships, she insists, have been equally heartfelt. “When I was in relationships with men, I was in love and in lust with those men. And then I met Christine, and I fell in love and lust with her. I am completely the same person.” She rejects the idea that it’s acceptable to be gay only if you have no choice in the matter. “Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots.”

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