Cynthia Nixon: “None of us are free until we’re equal”

Activist, politician and actor Cynthia Nixon – who also happened to play Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City – picked up her award for LGBT + Celebrity. “Good evening brothers, sisters, and those who reject the gender binary. I’m Cynthia Nixon, this is my friend Ben and he’s here for moral support and the visual part of our presentation,” she opened her acceptance speech video with, while Ben wore a jacket emblazoned with the message ‘Homophobia is still a social disease’.

She continued: “I am just coming to you tonight to say thank you, thank you so much for this thrilling honour. It was such a surprise and it makes me feel so loved and so seen and remembered from all the way across the pond. There’s so much excitement about Pride this year because it’s the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.”

Referring to the vintage suit she was wearing, Nixon continued: “I am dressed this way because Ben and I are working on Ryan Murphy’s new show Ratchet in which I play a lesbian and there’s a host of LGBT characters that really undergo harrowing things in 1947 when our show takes place.

“It makes you realise how far we’ve come and we’ve come this far because so many of us, and so many of us who are no longer here, stood up and fought and that’s what I want to say to you tonight.

“Celebrate and keep fighting. We’ve come a long way, we have a long way to go. And as a queer woman and as the wife of a queer woman and as the mother of a trans man I say thank you from the bottom of my heart. None of us are free until all of us are free. Cheers.”

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