And, while Nixon is technically “unqualified”, she has been active in political circles surrounding the issues of education, LGBTQ rights, breast cancer awareness, and women’s health care.

She first made national headlines in politics when she became involved in the 2011 campaign to legalise same-same marriage in New York, and has been honoured for for LGBT visibility by GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign.

Nixon is also a spokesperson for the Alliance for Quality Education, and an advocate for women’s health care – both in her work on breast cancer awareness and reproductive rights. She has worked with Planned Parenthood, and in 2016 wrote an essay for TIME about her mother’s abortion and a woman’s right to choose.

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Cynthia Nixon’s beautiful response to politician who called her an “unqualified lesbian”