Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon “rejects” the notion that homosexuality is not a choice.
In an interview with the New York Times, the actress, who played Miranda on the HBO series and two subsequent films said that she is a lesbian by choice:
“…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,” Nixon told the Times.
Nixon has had long-term relationships with both men and women. She has a 15 year-old daughter, Samantha, and a son, Charlie, 9, from a relationship with former boyfriend, Daniel Mozes.
In 2004, she met Christine Marinoni, whom she began a relationship with.
Marinoni and Nixon have a son, Max, 11 months, who was fathered by an unnamed donor.
Nixon said that homosexuality is something she decided on.
“[A speech she gave to a gay audience] included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better,’” she said. The group was not pleased about the characterization of homosexuality as something that one can “opt out” of.
The statement is at odds many gay activists who say that homosexuality is a something one is born with.
“I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here,” Nixon continued, “it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.”