Cynthia Nixon: I'd Marry My Girlfriend

The UK Mirror sat down with "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon, and she revealed she would marry her girlfriend Christine Marinoni, given the legal opportunity. The pair have been together since 2004.

"If it becomes legal I think we would," says Cynthia, who still lives in the Upper West Side neighbourhood where she was born. "It's something my girlfriend is interested in and it was not something my boyfriend ever was.

"I think that to get married to her would be a little act of rebellion. It's like if you've never had the vote and then you get it you're going to run out there and vote.

"I always avoided marriage in the past and was always very wary of it. I felt like it was potentially a trap. People sometimes want the party, the gifts and the public celebration of this big love - they're excited about that rather than about the lifetime commitment. So I always steered clear of it." Emmy-award winning Cynthia shocked everyone when she walked out on her partner of 15 years - English professor Danny Mozes - for Christine...

"I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me that woke up or came out of the closet. There wasn't a struggle or an attempt to suppress. I met this woman and I fell in love with her.

Read the whole Nixon interview here.

Comments

[Christabelle]

YAWNNNNNNN­NNNNNNNNNN­nnnnn.

[repugnicansfearme]

And I would like you both to take me on your honeymoon..........

[adamsmith]

I think the institution of marriage is stupid for one and all. 50% end in divorce. I wouldn't take those odds, and bet everything I own on them. Maybe it's just me....

[MalloMel]

I agree. Isn't that kind of weird?

[rextrek]

Im actually TIRED of this whole argument....IT Disgusts me that America does NOT live up too what it espouses to everyone else in the world. Freedom this,and Freedom that...yea..yea its all HOT AIR! Until America takes the lead in Equality and Fairness to ALL its citizens - it will be viewed as a Hypocritical Nation!

[jesthefaxman]

YAWWWWWN

[Trollstakeyourmeds]

As inter-racial marriage is common and legal now, gay marriage, hopefully, will be viewed the same way shortly. Love is love is love is love. We should all be encouraging committed and loving relationships...not discouraging them.

[rextrek]

You're Right on all counts...except, the Right is NOT Discouraging LGBT relationships...the Law is and WILL NOT Recognizing them legally. The 21st Century America..and we still struggle with Equality..? Such Hypocracy. Where's the America I thought I lived In?

[klandish]

"We" lived in. Well, only for some, that is.

[Spazzers]

I only have one real comment regarding Ms. Nixon marrying her same sex partner;

She says marrying her partner "would be a little act of rebellion. It's like if you've never had the vote and then you get it you're going to run out there and vote."

That has to be the STUPIDEST reason to want to marry someone.

[klandish]

Stupider than a young woman marring a man she doesn't love for money or an older man marring a young girl because of a mid life crisis. She's made it clear she's in love with her. Just because she's excited by honoring her right to marriage by doing so is not stupid.

[indypete]

Good luck to her! If gays want to marry, what's the problem? Live and let live... they're not hurting anyone. It's an unholy drag that gays have to hide away in this day and age. I worked on cruise ships for almost twenty years and among the crewmwmbers you'll find more gays per cubic foot than anywhere else on earth. They are accepted on the ships for what they are... people. Not wierd, not sinful, not wrong, just people. In the crew bars they are able to be as open about themselves as anyone else and hold hands, cuddle, whatever straight couples do in public, with no bad vibe from holier-than-thou types. Does gay marriage cheapen my marriage? Absolutely not. My 3 divorces might, but gay marriage certainly does not!

[CoulterIsASuccubus]

Cindy, no offense, but have you seen your girlfriend?? She looks like John Goodman's ugly brother.

[jesuswazasocialist]

Damn I thought it was John Goodman.

[gr8abz]

Her name is Cynthia moron.

[WIpatriot]

No wonder she wants to marry and change her last name.

[JFM]

So, your point is...what? You think Cynthia's love for her partner, or her desire to marry her, should somehow be diminished because you are not attracted to this woman? What am I missing here? Oh, right: you objectify women and that's the sum total of how you view them.

[klandish]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Your blog was ugly.

[yukoner1]

Go for it Cynthia! Move to Massachusetts, better yet, Canada. Same sex marriage is legal in the Yukon.
Come on up!
Steve

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Where the men are men and the moose are nervous.

;-)

Cheers.

[keclxivq]

Very beautiful and classy lady. Good luck and hope all your dreams come true.

[Guynemer]

I thought she was still dating that cab driver.

[radmul]

To bad she is only doing this to promote a film. Just another case of manufactured news for the promotion of crap

[presto]

Doing what? Being gay?

[LeonBNJ]

I would rather lesbians like Ms. Nixon and gay men be able to live openly, including in civil marriage, rather than lead their lives in unhappiness, not feeling whole or having to hide their relationships. Civil unions are not recognized in states where they didn't take place under their laws. Marriage by same-gender couples would be. Yes, there may be advantages to marriage - economic and practical as pointed out by others, but more important is to be able have a commitment with a partner.

[DMSmith]

More important is having the same choices in life as all other people have. Or...am I less than an equal person in my own country which prides itself on freedom?

I'm 63 years old. I would like to live at least one day of my life as a truly equal and free American. I have, after all, been promised that my entire life.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Hang in there. The times, they are a-changing.

[PaxMundis]

This about "brokeback"or "sham" marriages ignores the fact that there are millions out there - like Ms. Nixon - who are *bisexual*, not gay or lesbian.

[Spazzers]

Actually you do have equal rights. You have the same exact right to marry that everyone else has. That right is to marry a person of the opposite sex. By federal law NO ONE has the right to marry a person of the same sex. In that light you are not being denied anything. You have the same rights everyone else has. What you are asking for is a new right, the right to marry someone of the same sex.

I have no problem with a gay person wanting to marry their partner. It doesn't effect me in the least. I do take issue when people play the victim, however, by saying they are being denied rights. They are not. What they want is a new right, the right to marry someone of the same sex. If gay people approached the issue from that aspect it would be much better received.

Push your politicians. Get out the vote. Stop playing the victim.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Enough "brokeback marriages" already.

To split a fine hair: not committment, per se, but the civil and financial privileges -- and obligations in case of divorce -- that society bestows upon, and imposes upon, m-m-m-arried people.

Live love.

[klandish]

You are breaking my back by saying everyone does not have the same rights to hope, participate and make the mistakes then be covered legally by laws only heterosexual covet.

[klandish]

O.K. Got what you mean. Sorry.

[OnTheCusp]

I would rather that gays and lesbians come the f*#k out of the closet and stop defrauding the straight people they marry (to appear socially respectable) out of years of their lives.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

I belive that onus belongs to a great degree on our society's shoulders. But as long as the stigmas continue...

Not to mention, some "beards" aren't being duped -- they're in on it.

Last but foremost, most gays and lesbians are not duping anyone, nor trying to.

[Boobaloo]

I could not care less if same sex marry what I am sick and tired of is media and special interest groups portraying grown men who happen to be gay as some sort of precious vulnerable victim that we all need to gather around and protect.

Grown men don't need anyones protection, gay doesnt make you precious and simply being alive has risks so it's not societys responsibility to make sure gay men are protected from homophobia. Consequences are a part of life, so if you're hitting on straight men, you can expect to be politely rebuffed, punched in the face or even shot; don't blame everyone else because you chose to be rude, disrespectful and malicious and got some of it back in your face.

Grown men are perfectly capable of protecting themselves but, what about all the gay men who are mysogynists? What about the gay men who hate women, who will protect women from them? They'd love to see women completely removed from the face of the earth and go around degrading and disrespecting women regularily.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Oy.

[leftypower]

As a gay man, I am not a victim except when I am attacked by others when holding my partner's hand on the street. I don't need protection except from employers who feel they can fire me simply for being gay. I am not a special interest in that I simply want the laws of this nation - and my state - to affect me and my partner the way they would affect other married couples. I merely want to file my taxes, married and jointly, with my partner and not be discriminated against with regards to employment, hosing, benefits, etc.

Until the laws of this country recognize my relationship, legally and financially, as that, say, any one man and one woman can obtain through a drive-up window in Las Vegas, you can call me whatever you want. Just don't call me an equal under the law.

And this goes for my lesbian sisters in inequality.

[klandish]

You go boy! Many of these blogs surprise me in there homophobia. Just goes to show you what we're up against. One of my straight female friends says homophobia is the biggest turn off to woman dating men. A man's Insecurity that's hidden behind phobic machismo should be a red flag ladies.

[rzan]

I have never met a gay man who hates women and wants them completely removed from the face of the earth, and I know a lot of gay men. In fact, gay men very much appreciate women, even women who are no longer young. It is heterosexual men who often hate women. I don't think gays are asking for protection, and I have to wonder why straights have so much fear of gay men.

[klandish]

You know why!

[presto]

Straight men are far more of a threat to women than gay men.

[Hirnlego]

Give them the same freedoms and a lot of these news will end..