Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that WIT, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow will extend at MTCs Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The limited engagement must close after the evening performance on Saturday, March 17.
3 months ago Recently Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars on Sex in the City, has been under fire among the lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities for saying that she had chosen to be gay, as she noted in an New York Times interview:
The key factor driving the courts' decisions about whether to strike down discriminatory laws has not been immutability but something more basic: whether a law discriminates on the basis of a trait that has no bearing on a person's ability to contribute to society.
When actress Cynthia Nixon declared that for her, being gay is a choice, she received much negative backlash from the gay and lesbian community. But I appreciate her giving us an opportunity to discuss a very complex concept of sexuality.
Credit: Michael Stewart/WireImage/Getty Images. Cynthia Nixon has clarified her claim that she is gay by choice. The “Sex and the City” actress recently told the New York Times Magazine, “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’s comment upset some members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, who took umbrage with the idea that they have control over their sexual preference. In a statement published by the LGBT magazine The Advocate, Nixon said: “While I don’t often use the word, the technically…
Cynthia Nixon has sought to clarify her comments further in a statement to The Advocate, telling them that bisexuality is not a choice, but her decision to be in a homosexual relationship is.
It seems that Cynthia Nixon has found a way to follow up on last week’s flub with a statement that clarifies sexual orientation is not a choice without discounting choices she has made in her life. She told the Advocate today: My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal [...]
Cynthia Nixon would like to clarify: She might be choosing to partner with a woman rather than a man, but she had no choice in the matter when it came to being bisexual in the first place. Cynthia Nixon is currently bald for her starring role in "Wit" in New York City.
3 months agoRead the full story of Cynthia Nixon clarifies remark about being gay by choice - Washington, Jan 31 : Cynthia Nixon has backtracked on her controversial comment where she said homosexuality was
Cynthia Nixon's comments that being gay was a personal choice for her rankled all manner of folk earlier this month. And now she's weathered the shitstorm Nixon has come out to clarify her position – even though she did a pretty good job of it the first time around – and say that, for her,...
3 months ago(Metro Weekly)
For reasons all her own, actress Cynthia Nixon has given the Advocate magazine a clarification about her sexual orientation. She has been under pressu
3 months agoActress Cynthia Nixon tells Advocate.com today that she is bisexual and it is not a choice. "While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it...
Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She is an Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy Award-winning actress.
Nixon was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Anne Knoll, an actress fro... MORE