Perez Hilton is going after "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon for declaring she “chooses” to be gay, but the actress is finding support at Sundance.
Gay director Kyle Henry, whose short film “Fourplay: Tampa” is in the festival, defended Nixon for telling the New York Times magazine, “For me [my sexuality] is a choice … Why can’t it be a choice?”
“I don’t have a problem” with what Nixon said, Henry told HLN's Showbiz Tonight. “I want to be as understanding as I possibly could be. I don’t want to judge people; people have judged me all my life.”
On his website, Hilton questioned Nixon’s “choice of words." And the gay blogger wrote pointedly, “It wasn’t a choice for us. We were BORN gay. And millions of gay people around the world feel the same way.”
Another gay blogger, John Aravosis, called Nixon’s words “incredibly irresponsible.”
It’s a touchy question because some social conservatives maintain homosexuals choose to be gay, and can also choose not to be gay, and therefore don’t deserve special legal protections.
Kyle Henry, (who by the way believes his sexuality was not a choice), says, “Sexuality and sexual expression has always been described to me as a spectrum and people should be allowed to place themselves anywhere they want on that spectrum and identify themselves in a manner that they feel comfortable with.”
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