And just like that miranda is gay
My fixation on queerness in the Sex and the City universe is not a new thing. A couple of years ago, in advance of the Season 2 premiere of And Just Like That …, I wrote an opus on the surprising queer timeline of the original SATC series. I was remiss in not writing my “We possess all dated Che Diaz” hot take (we possess, I have). And now, in Season 3 of AJLT…, a favourite hate-watch for women of a certain age, I would like the PR gods to bring me Cynthia Nixon, because I possess some questions.
Namely: How did Nixon let the writers represent Miranda’s sexuality the way they have? Nixon is a queer chick herself. Not only a queer woman, but a queer woman living in New York City. And a queer woman living in New York Municipality with a butch companion. According to DIVA Magazine, Nixon started dating her partner Christine Marinoni in 2004; the pair got married in 2012 and have a child together. Nixon is a recognizable activist for many causes (and even ran for New York governor in 2018), and she and Marinoni have together advocated around LGBTQ2S+ rights and around education issues.
Now, let’s return to Miranda, Nixon’s member of the “core four” of the first SATC series. Early
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A month ago, a friend (the brilliant bi author Rachel Krantz) texted me urging me to write a believe piece about Miranda Hobbes’s bisexuality.
“Please!” she said. “The world needs it and I don’t have it in me.”
“Do I contain to?” I replied.
Culturally we’ve run the topic of Miranda’s sexuality into the ground—most of us are still recovering from 2022’s Che Twitter discourse. But And Just Like That’s Season 2 has wrapped, and even though it’s Bi Visibility Week, I still haven’t seen any recent memes or op-eds lead us to steady conversations about bisexuality.
Unfortunately, I do have to.
What are my qualifications? I wrote a book on the topic, but mostly I’ve just spent years talking about bisexuality on the internet. Annoyingly this actually does matter, because it turns out the internet is where most conversations about bisexuality obtain place. Bisexuals wind up online because, while queer bars are quite literally under attack and female homosexual bars are (also literally) facing extinction, bisexual bars never really existed to begin with. Queer bars have historically served as pivotal community gathering points, so a lack of bi bars is the physical form of bi e
Miranda Hobbes Has Always Been Gay. And Also, She Hasn’t.
Whether or not you’ve been keeping up with And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City continuation series on HBO Max, there’s one plotline you’re probably conscious of because it’s the only thing people on Twitter seem to communicate about (and no, we’re not talking about the whole Peloton nightmare): Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, is having a gender non-conforming sexual awakening.
In season 6 of the original series, Miranda married Steve Brady, the Queens-accented bar owner and father of her child. Now that they’re nearing 20 years of marriage, it seems that the physical aspect of their connection is more or less gone—Miranda tells Charlotte at one point that she and Steve haven’t had sex “in years.” Years! Plural!! Things have gone the way of Nightly Ice Cream Sundaes and the City instead of, you know.
So as her marriage simmers sexlessly, Miranda develops a fascination with Carrie’s boss, Che Diaz, a agender comedian played by Sara Ramírez, and this eventually develops into a physical affair. Che fingers Miranda in Carrie’s kitchen while Carrie, fresh out of surgery and unable to walk, pees into a Snapple bottle. Mir
If you’re queer and have watched And Just Like That you probably recollect the picnic scene. In “Diwali,” episode 6 of the Sex and the City reboot, Miranda Hobbes, Charlotte York, and Carrie Bradshaw meet for lunch in a park along the East River. All is well until Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) reveals that she had sex outside of her heterosexual marriage and, that she did so with a non-binary person, the Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez). Glassy-eyed, Miranda asks Charlotte (Kristin Davis) not to have a big reaction. (Carrie already knows). She then very calmly says, “I had sex with Che at Carrie’s apartment after the surgery when we consideration she was asleep.” Without missing a beat, Charlotte shrieks a bunch of rhetorical questions: chief shaking, eyebrows raised, eyes bulging in a way that is reminiscent of her ex-mother-in-law Bunny, whom she once despised. She asks, “Are you GAY now?” Miranda immediately responds, “No,” but then shrugs: “I don’t know.” Charlotte continues: “You spent your whole experience with men. You’re MARRIED to a MAN and now you’re suddenly having non-binary sex!… You are not gradual enough for this!”
In what feels more like hurt than anger, Miranda storms away
And Just Like That's Cynthia Nixon Says Miranda Always Had "Lesbianic Qualities"
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Miranda was born this way.
In And Just Like That...'s debut season, Cynthia Nixon's character realized that she was interested in the same sex, which came as a surprise to viewers—but not to the actress. "Even though she was only really interested in men, I think that Miranda had many other queer and frankly, lesbianic qualities about her," she told Variety. "And I think for a lot of queer women, she—we didn't hold a gay woman! But she was a stand-in for the gay women we didn't have."
Nixon acknowledged that Samantha (Kim Cattrall) was a "little queer" in the series (she dated a woman in season four) but said it was "very different."
On the show, Miranda was frequently going up against men and challenging tradition, both of which Nixon cited as key characteristics of many lesbians. As she told Variety, "I think not having to be under a man's thumb has always been one of the very appealing things that being with another woman has to offer.&quo