So, when AJLT’s showrunner, Michael Patrick King, approached the actress about Miranda coming out as queer, Nixon was all for it. Nixon herself came out in 2004, during the last season of Sex and the City and has been married to education activist Christine Marinoni since 2012. At the time, though, the conversation around gay women was fairly minimal, and Nixon feels Miranda was “a stand-in for the gay women we didn’t have.” “Even though she was only really interested in men, I think that Miranda had many other queer and frankly, lesbianic qualities about her,” Nixon said. According to Nixon, Miranda’s sexual identity is nothing new and in a recent interview with Variety, the actress admitted Miranda’s AJLT story arc was probably a long time coming.
episode about Miranda grappling with the corporatization of Pride), and Cynthia Nixon is celebrating by opining on her longtime character’s queerness. This year marks Miranda Hobbes’ first time celebrating Pride Month as an out, queer woman (honestly, there should probably be an And Just Like That.
