The gayer aspects of “Sex and the City”
“The character [Stanford] is — what’s the best way to say this? — slightly flamboyant. It’s a very specific kind of character that I am not in my real life. To me, it always felt a little over the top, but people who are more attuned to that community feel that it’s actually right on.”
Actor Willie Garson responding to how his “Sex and the City” character, Stanford Blatch, is different than him. (Entertainment Weekly)
“Why do people always talk about how gay men are writing the women and they never talk about how straight women are writing the men?… It’s interesting, Mr. Big is written by women and they wrote him well and understand him.”
Michael Patrick King, director of the film version of “Sex and the City,” responding to long-running comments that the behavior of the female leads in the show are based more on the lifestyles of gay men because the show is in-part created by gay men. (Winnipeg Sun)
I’ve never had Manolo (Blahniks) on, I’ve never been in high heels. I really have seen enough shoes (working on the show). It’s like a gynecologist that goes home and says, ‘Honey please, I’ve seen enough of those today….’ And here’s another thing, I rarely say the word ‘Fabulous!’ because I’ve typed it a million times.”
“Sex and the City” creator Darren Star, a gay man who created the TV show and film about four single women’s relationships in Manhattan that was based on a book by author Candace Bushnell. (Winnipeg Sun)
“In terms of my sexual orientation changing, I don’t really feel that it did. I don’t feel any different. I don’t feel like there was some deep hidden part of myself or my sexuality that I wasn’t aware of. I felt like I have been with men all my life. I had never met a woman that I had fallen in love with before–but when I did, it didn’t seem so strange. There are people who feel like they’re only gay. Then there are people who feel like they’re only straight. But to me, it’s not so strange…. I always avoided marriage in the past. I was always wary of it. I also thought of marriage as a thing that is expected of a woman, so I was rebelling a bit. My girlfriend and I can’t get married. Not in New York but if it (same-sex marriage) does become legal, I think we would (get married). I feel that, first of all, it’s something that she’s interested in. It was not something that my boyfriend was ever interested in.”
Actress Cynthia Nixon, who has been dating her girlfriend, Christine Marinoni, since January 2004, in an interview discussing her “Sex and the City” character, Miranda Hobbes, doing a nude scene, and receiving treatment for breast cancer. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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