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The Bi Monthly
A month ago, a friend (the brilliant bi creator Rachel Krantz) texted me urging me to write a ponder piece about Miranda Hobbes’s bisexuality.
“Please!” she said. “The world needs it and I don’t hold it in me.”
“Do I own to?” I replied.
Culturally we’ve sprint 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 obtain 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
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 alert of because it’s the only thing people on Twitter seem to chat about (and no, we’re not talking about the whole Peloton nightmare): Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, is having a gender non-conforming 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 association 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 agender comedian played by Sara Ramírez, and this eventually develops into a physical affair. Che fingers Miranda in Ride
Cynthia Nixon Thinks Miranda Was Always Gender non-conforming on ‘Sex and the City’: She Had ‘Lesbianic Qualities’
When &#;And Just Like That&#; showrunner Michael Patrick King approached Cynthia Nixon to debate 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 undertake different stuff, and exhibit different worlds, and illustrate different aspects of these characters, why not perform that?&#;
For King&#;s part, in order to activate 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 have an affair with her professor, having gone back to school after quitting her job at her corporate law firm.
But Nixon said no to that thought, she said in an interview for Variety&#;s cover story about Sara Ramírez — the actor who would e
If you’re queer and acquire watched And Just Fond That you probably retain the picnic scene. In “Diwali,” episode 6 of the Sex and the City reboot, Miranda Hobbes, Charlotte York, and Carrie Bradshaw meet for lunch in a park along the East River. All is well until Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) reveals that she had sex outside of her heterosexual marriage and, that she did so with a agender person, the Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez). Glassy-eyed, Miranda asks Charlotte (Kristin Davis) not to have a big reaction. (Carrie already knows). She then very calmly says, “I had sex with Che at Carrie’s apartment after the surgery when we reflection she was asleep.” Without missing a beat, Charlotte shrieks a bunch of rhetorical questions: head shaking, eyebrows raised, eyes bulging in a way that is reminiscent of her ex-mother-in-law Bunny, whom she once despised. She asks, “Are you GAY now?” Miranda immediately responds, “No,” but then shrugs: “I don’t know.” Charlotte continues: “You spent your whole life with men. You’re MARRIED to a MAN and now you’re suddenly having non-binary sex!… You