[Cynthia] Nixon is a mother herself; her two oldest children are Samantha, 15, and Charlie, 9. Their father is Daniel Mozes, a classmate of Nixon\u2019s at Hunter College High School, where he now teaches English. The couple never married and split in 2003….A year after splitting with Mozes, she began a relationship with Christine Marinoni….<\/p>\n
[She is frustrated by]…the skepticism she says her relationship has sparked among some gay activists who find her midlife switch in sexual orientation disingenuous.<\/p>\n
\u201cI totally reject that,\u201d\u009d she said heatedly. \u201cI gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line \u201d\u02dcI\u2019ve been straight and I\u2019ve been gay, and gay is better.\u2019 And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it\u2019s not, but for me it\u2019s a choice, and you don\u2019t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it\u2019s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn\u2019t matter if we flew here or we swam here, 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.\u201d\u009d Her face was red and her arms were waving. \u201cAs you can tell,\u201d\u009d she said, \u201cI am very annoyed about this issue. Why can\u2019t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we\u2019re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don\u2019t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn\u2019t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I\u2019ve been out with.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n