Actor Cynthia Nixon and her financée, education activist Christine Marinoni, welcomed a baby boy yesterday, reports People magazine. The couple already have two children, 14 and 8, from Nixon’s previous relationship. If you missed Nixon’s long interview last year with the Advocate, go read. She talks about meeting Marinoni, how her kids responded to their […]
Personal Matters Sex and the City actor and lesbian mom Cynthia Nixon is the first “celebrity expert” at 365gay.com, where she tackles the question “I think my 7-year-old is gay and kids are starting to tease him. How do I help him or what should I do?” We Are Goodkin profiles Kimbo Prichard and Natasha
Well, some of us, anyway. Here’s actor Cynthia Nixon at the Sex and the City 2 premiere last night. Compare, if you will, the short-haired, softball playing, sturdy black pumps-wearing Elena Kagan, who is neither a lesbian nor a mom. And to stir the stereotypes even more, go have a read of the Advocate’s cover interview
Entertainment It’s a bonus entertainment week: Autostraddle has compiled a collection of celebrities with two moms. Brent Hartinger at After Elton discusses the increasing number of gay dads on television, and the increasingly varied ways they are forming their fictional families. Law & Order recently ran an episode featuring a lesbian heiress who adopted her
Politics and Law The government of New South Wales, Australia, has refused to change the law and allow same-sex couples to adopt, despite a six-month parliamentary inquiry that found doing so would be in the best interests of children. It says the issue is “too complex and sensitive” and there is not enough community support.
Two stories caught my eye today that show the value of making personal connections, even when the barriers between people seem insurmountable. They make a good pair of pieces for weekend reading. One is Steven Goldstein’s piece at Blue Jersey, which I mentioned in my Political Roundup this week. Steven is the chair of Garden
I wish Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni all the best with their just-announced marriage. Nixon is a high-profile mom and a great spokesperson for our community. She should talk with a lawyer, however. In her speech last week during a New York marriage equality rally, she announced her engagement and also asserted that Christine, the
Actor Cynthia Nixon announced her engagement to Christine Marinoni yesterday at a New York City rally for marriage equality. The couple is raising two children. No word on whether they are waiting until they can marry legally in New York or if they will marry in another state and use New York’s policy of recognizing
Tragedy: GLSEN reports, “An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself Monday [April 6] after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. This is at least the fourth suicide of a middle-school aged child linked to bullying this year.”
It’s been a weekend of protests for the LGBT community. The New York Times, among other places covered them, as did most LGBT news channels. Pick your favorite; I won’t list them all here. Instead, I’m going to highlight the interview that actor and lesbian mom Cynthia Nixon did on Friday with Joy Behar, who
