Cynthia Nixon ENGAGED To Christine Marinoni (PHOTOS)

UPDATE: Extra! talked to Nixon at Sunday's event about her engagement:

We're hoping to do it in New York. We're not going to wait forever, but we're hoping it's just around the corner...Sometime I think before the end of next summer, but we don't have a date."

Nixon showed "Extra" her gorgeous ring but reveals Marinoni is going bling-less. "She did not get a ring. She will have a wedding ring but she does not want an engagement ring."

PREVIOUSLY:
Sunday Cynthia Nixon announced her engagement to longtime partner Christine Marinoni during an Action=Marriage Equality rally in midtown New York to fight for same-sex marriages.

Nixon was joined at the rally not by her fiancee, to whom she became engaged last month, but by her "Sex and the City" costar Kristin Davis, David Hyde Pierce and New York Governor David Paterson.

Below is a photo of Nixon as she shows of her new engagement ring during the rally, and below that Nixon's hand Friday night.

The pair have been dating since 2003. Nixon has a son and a daughter from a previous relationship.

PHOTOS:
Showing off her ring at Sunday's rally

At a Drama League event Friday night, ring on

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[rottnkid]

hmmph

[offred]

Best wishes, ladies.

[dongarb]

Damn! I guess I'll never get to sleep with Cynthia now! What a rip ...

[nimblehuman]

I feel you...Cynthia Nixon is one hot mama, Christine Mariononi is one lucky woman!

[RoadCrossingChicken]

Now, now... we don't know what Christine brings to the table... Cynthia may be the lucky one... just look at her smile... someone is making her awfully happy!

[phillymonster]

LOL...Cynthia Nixon engaged to "her brother":

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7494-LA-Gossip-Examiner~y2009m5d18-Cynthia-Nixon-engaged-to-her-brother

[Edward Ayres]

Yes, their resemblance is striking. If they have a kid it will be one, big freckle.

[slippage]

Having a limited understanding of gender and sexuality, most people believe we live in a binary and spend infinite amounts of time trying to make everything fit neatly within that duality . It's an either/or thing. Either its male and female or it's male and male or it's female and female. And if it's male and female then it's masculinity and femininity and the participants need to remain within the narrow perimeters that society has defined regarding what is masculine and what is feminine. Amazingly enough these rules don't change all that much when we are talking about gay relationships. It's male and male or female and female. It's about masculinity attracted to masculinity or femininity attracted to femininity. Or if there is any gender disobedience displayed, if anyone is hanging out of the box of what is male/man or female/woman then they are simply aping a heterosexual relationship. It's time to push those narrow boundaries of what is masculine and what if feminine. Maybe if we could do that and allow some breathing room, then female masculinity or masculine femininity wouldn't freak us out so much.

[NoSillyName]

Please define "binary" as anything other than an adjective; I'm not familiar with its use as a noun.

[WowJones]

A whole compose of two. Noun

[slippage]

Female masculinity or being decidedly butch doesn't automatically make one over-bearing, insensitive and controlling. Just like being a man wouldn't necessarily make one over-bearing, insensitive and controlling. Some people are. Some people are attracted to those that are. These types come in all flavors, butch, femme, gay, lesbian, trans, bi, straight, man, woman and any combination thereof.

If one is attracted to female masculinity then that is what one is attracted to. It doesn't mean anything more than that. Butch women are not men. They are women. A butch may not necessarily feel any particular kinship with male masculinity. Because the majority of people are stuck in a gender binary does not make it a reality.

A butch/femme relationship is not by any stretch of the imagination a psuedo male/female relationship. Those who are attracted to this type of relationship are not aping heteronormative behavior. Unfortunately most people are unable to comprehend something that is outside of their understanding of gender and sexuality. Lesbian and gay is difficult enough to deal with nevermind trying to come to terms with variety in homosexual relationships. Even lesbians notoriously can't deal with butch/femme relationships.

[Twopennygal]

Actually being "over-bearing, insensitive and controlling" has nothing to do with appearance. When I posted earlier that I started out dating women who were like the men I had attempted to date, I did not mention their appearance. They did not look particularly butch, they just acted like the men I dated -- I never met a man who would/could let me lead. Until I broke that cycle of personality type, I couldn't find the happiness in a relationship that I was looking for. My partner is nothing like the men I dated or the first women I dated.

What I was actually trying to get at is that appearance is seldom a true indicator of the person. I've met women who looked femme who were "over-bearing, insensitive and controlling" and women who looked butch who were just the opposite. And I gave my partner and me as an example of looking one way and not acting as expected. If either of us are "over-bearing, insensitive and controlling," it's going to be me. But I do my best not to be that way and Paula says I'm succeeding.

[slippage]

Okay I get it. It was just that when you said "Needless to say, when I finally realized what I was doing and why it wasn't working -- I don't like men, darn it! -- I finally found a real woman." I thought you were saying that butches are not real women. I'm glad that's not what you were saying. Because i know plenty of butches who are real women. I also know plenty who do not claim the identity of women. It's a gender rainbow in the LGBT community.

[yukoner1]

Congratulations! Live long and prosper.

[PhilipB]

Best wishes!

[ZenCrusader]

I " think " that one partner in a lesbian couple being " masculine " partner is a stereotype - sometimes true but surely not always. The lesbian couple that I know best are two of the most beautiful and feminine women I have ever had the pleasure to meet. I think it's a stereotype like " all gay men are feminine " which we know is way not true. Best wishes ladies !

[anthonytaurus]

I thought Marinoni was Alpha from Dollhouse.. whoa..

[VOICEOFKNOWING]

At least Cynthia could have picked someone hot... My gosh! BOW WOW!!

[VoteforPedro]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[Rachel Kendall]

I am a genderqueer butch masculine-identified female bodied person. I am not a man. I am a woman who loves women, especially feminine women. Gender has no specific "look" that goes with it. No one says that you have to wear a dress and make-up or have long hair in order to have female reproductive organs. Quit assuming that all butches are simply women who want to transition to men, we are female, simply a different gender variation of it. There is no "role" that butch-femme couples fall into, and that assumption is quite simply, false.

Mazel tov to the happy couple, may you have a long and happy life together.

[VoteforPedro]

T.M.I.

Too Much Information!

[NoSillyName]

That's quite a label you've given yourself!.

GQBMIFBP.

Try saying that fast five times.

[VoteforPedro]

It's sort of like just meeting someone and then having them tell you that they're a saved magikal Christain in the first few minutes. T.M.I. We really don't care that much about you! Get over yourself, please!

This rule applies to everyone.

Let the details trickle out over time if you see real signs of interest.

[michaleenflynn]

If there is no 'role', why do you refer to some women as feminine?

[cielGlitter]

Congrats girl! I really admire and support her.
Have you seen her in the SATC Bloopers?
http://hahaha-havealaugh.blogspot.com/search/label/Bloopers%20Sex%20and%20the%20City

[wdmax]

I believe in freedom to do whatever you want and if people want to get involved with the institution of marriage then more power to them...

But, I am a little confused in the archetypical masculine and feminine roles in same sex relationships, unions, and marriages, doesn't that defeat the purpose of a same sex relationship?

[VoteforPedro]

Me too.

[kobio]

Just as long as your ok being confused. You don't really need to understand.

[trixtah]

Not all of us are girlie-girls. Some of us are. It stands to reason that sometimes girlie-girls and the not-so will get together sometimes. I happen to find girlie-girls hot. Luckily, quite a lot of them find non-girlie-girls hot.

And just because one looks butch and one looks femme, you can't tell what "roles" are being enacted. I like cooking, for example. And I hate watching sports. Couldn't tell that by looking at me. No matter how butch and femme a couple might look, very few of them are enacting "archetypal" male/female roles in their entirety. Thank god.

[Twopennygal]

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All this talk about lesbian stereotypes is very annoying. And I guess it's especially so for me because when I came out at the tender age of 46, I started out dating women who were decidedly butch-- if not in looks in temperament. It took some time, but I came to realize that I was dating women who were very like the men I had dated when I thought I was straight (over-bearing, insensitive, controlling). My coming to the realization that I'm a lesbian is a whole 'nother story that I won't go into here. Needless to say, when I finally realized what I was doing and why it wasn't working -- I don't like men, darn it! -- I finally found a real woman.

Appearance-wise, I'm considered a femme, Paula's considered androgynous or slightly butch. But temperament-wise, I'm the "dominant" one and she's the softer, less-dominant one. But the important thing is that we have a loving relationship of equals. I've never been happier. I'm finally in exactly the kind of relationship I always wanted. And I love that she's a woman.

And our relationship does not fit at all the stereotype that seems to be the rage on this board. And our friends relationships are just as varied. So please, give it up. Lesbians (and gays and transgenders and bi-sexuals) have all sorts of relationships, just like straight people do.

[ChristianBernstein]

u may be one way and she the other, but I am the, er, uninterested one, eh?

[NoSillyName]

Tjis story is about CN and partner.