10 Gay Actors Who Play Straight Essay

Script Title: 10 Gay Actors Who Play Straight

When motion pictures were first introduced, homosexuality was still seen as a major taboo and same-sex relations were illegal in almost every country in the world, largely owing to the influence the five major religions held at the time. For this reason, members of the LGBT community were not depicted in early cinema, despite the fact many of those working in Hollywood at the time were rumored to be gay. Old Hollywood’s fear of even acknowledging homosexuality as a thing that existed can be seen in the 1946 movie Night and Day, a biopic covering the life of lyricist Cole Porter. Despite the fact that Porter was gay, the movie presented him as a macho man and treated his marriage to Linda Lee Thomas

From 1998 to 2004, the New York native appeared in the now iconic romantic comedy series Sex and the City as Miranda Hobbes.

The Miranda Hobbes character, for those who are too masculine to watch - or admit to watching - Sex and the City works in law and is everything that a New York lawyer should be. Concerned only with her career, she steps on whoever she has to to get to where she wants to go. Throughout the series, she is paired with a number of possible male suitors until she eventually settles down with Steve Brady, her on-again, off-again boyfriend.

Nixon was actually in a heterosexual relationship with a teacher by the name of Danny Mozes from 1988 to 2003 and she even had two children with him. But just a year after the couple split up, the actress entered into a same-sex relationship with Christine Marinoni, whom she wed in New York City on the 27th of May, 2012.

Cynthia Nixon has reprised her role as Miranda Hobbes twice during her relationship with Christine Marinoni, once for the initial Sex and the City movie in 2008 and then again for its 2010