Cynthia Nixon, the ravishing red-headed raven best known for her role in the pop sensation “Sex and the City” on HBO and film, just wedded her longtime girlfriend Christine Marinoni in a ceremony in New York.
She represents the growing cadre of the celebrity gay role models who are blazing the cultural path that make same-sex unions more palatable to a “puritanical” American society that ardently rejected homosexuality until recently.
Below are several of the biggest celebrity gay role models who are no longer not poking their heads out of the closet to test the social-political temperature about their orientation, they are strutting out with authority to proclaim their place in society.
— terry shropshire