Out and Proud in Hollywood

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Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon, who played uptight lawyer Miranda Hobbes on "Sex and the City", shocked the world when it was revealed she had split with her longtime companion and later began dating education activist Christine Marinoni. The couple in 2011 welcomed their first child together, a son named Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni. Nixon explained in a New York Magazine interview that she never struggled with her sexuality. "I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure." In 2009, Nixon announced that she was engaged to Marinoni during the Love, Peace and Marriage Equality rally in New York. Nixon was even thanked by Alec Baldwin over the weekend for all her help in getting the marriage law passed in New York