CYNTHIA NIXON REFUSES TO CALL HERSELF BISEXUAL

After gay rights groups demended actress Cynthia Nixon (who is starring on Broadway in Wit) retract her comments on saying that she chose to be gay, The Daily Beast reporter Kevin Sessums asked Nixon about her previous 15-year relationship with a man, and her current relationship with Christine Marinoni:

I’m a bit confused. Were you a lesbian in a heterosexual relationship? Or are you now a heterosexual in a lesbian relationship? That quote seemed like you were fudging a bit.

It’s so not fudging. It’s so not. I think for gay people who feel 100 percent gay, it doesn’t make any sense. And for straight people who feel 100 percent straight, it doesn’t make any sense. I don’t pull out the “bisexual” word because nobody likes the bisexuals. Everybody likes to dump on the bisexuals.

But it is the “B” in LGBT.

I know. But we get no respect.

You just said “we,” so you must self-identify as one.

I just don’t like to pull out that word. But I do completely feel that when I was in relationships with men, I was in love and in lust with those men. And then I met Christine and I fell in love and lust with her. I am completely the same person and I was not walking around in some kind of fog. I just responded to the people in front of me the way I truly felt.

Nixon then told the reporter that it's her choice that she is with a woman, because to say it's not a choice would be "caving to the bigots":

I understand for political reasons why some people want to kind of squelch this idea that being gay might be a choice, because a lot of the rights we want are posited on the supposition that why are you denying me my rights any more than if I were created a different color? But I don’t feel the need to cede the definition of what a gay person is to the bigots. They don’t get to define who I am.

I agree that for the most part this is a political issue, and if she feels personally that she chose to be with a woman, which in my opinion you can't choose who you are because love knows no gender. I actually believe that Cynthia is bisexual, but she doesn't define who she is by labels.

You can read the full interview here