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A month ago, a friend (the brilliant bi storyteller Rachel Krantz) texted me urging me to write a deliberate piece about Miranda Hobbes’s bisexuality.
“Please!” she said. “The world needs it and I don’t own it in me.”
“Do I possess to?” I replied.
Culturally we’ve race the topic of Miranda’s sexuality into the ground—most of us are still recovering from ’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 progressive 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 receive place. Bisexuals wind up online because, while gay bars are quite literally under attack and lesbian bars are (also literally) facing extinction, bisexual bars never really existed to begin with. Queer bars have historically
Over the years there acquire been many rankings and roundups related to Sex and the City. Carrie’s best hair (early Season 3), boyfriends (Ben, the reader guy she meets in the park in Season 2, who doesn’t ever become a boyfriend per se), handbags (no actual idea, I’m mostly a tote-bag queer).
In illumination of the show’s 25th anniversary and the upcoming second season of And Just Like That … I decided to execute a very unscientific timeline of all the surprise queer and queer-adjacent episodes of Sex and the City. The science: I didn’t include plotlines involving Stanford or Anthony—known homosexuals (sincere R.I.P. to Willie Garson). Nor Oliver, the fag Carrie befriends for a single episode in Season 4, possibly because he is (of course) a shoe importer by trade. Instead I rounded up the episodes and plotlines where there was unexpected queerness, as defined by me. For what it is worth, however: the very best Stanford episode is percent Season 2, Episode 12 (La Douleur Exquise!), with the underwear party, because it is , the internet is new, Stanford is going to meet a man he k
Cynthia Nixon Thinks Miranda Was Always Queer on ‘Sex and the City’: She Had ‘Lesbianic Qualities’
When &#;And Just Like That&#; showrunner Michael Patrick King approached Cynthia Nixon to discuss what her character Miranda Hobbes&#; trajectory would be in HBO Max&#;s &#;Sex and the City&#; revival, he asked her whether she wanted Miranda to be queer. After all, Nixon herself came out in , and has been married to Christine Marinoni since
&#;I was like, &#;Sure, why not!'&#; Nixon recalled saying. &#;If we&#;re trying to do different stuff, and show other worlds, and illustrate different aspects of these characters, why not do that?&#;
For King&#;s part, in order to turn on Nixon&#;s character, he wanted to &#;get Miranda out of her marriage.&#; So in the show&#;s earliest planning stages, Miranda was possibly going to own an affair with her professor, having gone back to school after quitting her job at her corporate statute firm.
But Nixon said no to that idea, she said in an interview for Variety&#;s cover story about Sara Ramírez — the actor who would 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 speak about (and no, we’re not talking about the whole Peloton nightmare): Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, is having a queer 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 bond 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 non-binary comedian played by Sara Ramírez, and this eventually develops into a physical affair. Che fingers Miranda in Ride