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Cynthia Nixon debuts bald head, community after calling homosexuality 'a choice'

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As shocking as Cynthia Nixon's bald-headed debut was on Tuesday morning's "Live with Kelly," her remarks about her homosexuality in a recent New York Times magazine article proved to be far more inflammatory.

The former "Sex and the City" actress appeared on the morning talk show sans her trademark ginger locks, a look she's adopted for her upcoming role in Broadway play "Wit" about an ovarian cancer patient.

But it was her decision to refer to her homosexuality as a "choice" that really has shocked fans and an angry LGBT community talking.

"For me, it is a choice," Nixon told the Times of her sexual orientation. "I understand that for many people it's not, but for me it's a choice, and you don't get to define my gayness for me.

"I say it doesn't matter if we flew here or we swam here. It matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not."

Nixon, 45, is currently engaged to longtime partner Christine Marinoni, but was previously linked to her old college sweetheart, Daniel Mozes, before the pair split in 2003.

She and Mozes have two children together - Samantha, 15, and Charlie, 9.

Nixon and Marinoni also have one son together - an 11-month-old baby boy Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni.

Gay blogger and activist John Aravosis has been one of the most outspoken voices speaking out against Nixon's comments.

"If you like both flavors, men and women, you're bisexual, you're not gay, so please don't tell people that you are gay, and that gay people can 'choose' their sexual orientation, i.e., will it out of nowhere. Because they can't," he wrote on the AmericaBlog Gay website.

"Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights."

Nixon, however, is standing by her statements, claiming that to backtrack would be "offensive" not only to her but to all the men she's dated.

"It seems we're just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don't think that they should define the terms of the debate," Nixon said. "I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn't realize I was gay, which I find really offensive."... READ MORE