I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line 'I've been straight and I've been gay, and gay is better.' And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. Here's the relevant article, which is long because it is extremely thoughtful: Of course, the preferred LGBT movement line is that we were all 'born this way'-and so her comments sent the Maoist portions of the LGBT thought police into an angry buzzing fury.
So I had to be brought up to cultural speed when Cynthia Nixon, who played the show's sexy lawyer Miranda, made a little splash in The New York Times Magazine this past weekend by saying that, for her, being gay is a choice. I'm one of fourteen Americans who has never watched an entire episode of 'Sex and the City.' The high heels and extreme grooming, the squealing girl talk, the pursuit of men-booooring.
