Out lesbian Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon says she would love to marry her girlfriend, Christine Marinoni, once New York authorities recognize same-sex marriages.

"If it becomes legal I think we would," Nixon told The Mirror. "It's something my girlfriend is interested in and it was not something my boyfriend ever was."

"I think that to get married to her would be a little act of rebellion. It's like if you've never had the vote and then you get it you're going to run out there and vote.

"I always avoided marriage in the past and was always very wary of it. I felt like it was potentially a trap. People sometimes want the party, the gifts and the public celebration of this big love - they're excited about that rather than about the lifetime commitment. So I always steered clear of it."

About meeting her girlfriend and tackling the media pressure, Nixon says: "I started dating my girlfriend in January 2004 and the press got wind of it around the September.

"There was a lot of attention and it was crazy. I said I was romantically involved with a woman, but I wasn't going to talk about it until everybody calmed down.

"I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me that woke up or came out of the closet. There wasn't a struggle or an attempt to suppress. I met this woman and I fell in love with her.

"In terms of my sexual orientation, I don't really feel that I changed. I don't feel any different than I did before. I don't feel like there was some hidden part of myself that I wasn't aware of.

"I had been with men all my life and I had never met a woman I had fallen in love with before. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. "I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman."

Last update: 05-13-2008 13:59