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Following Cynthia Nixon’s declaration that homosexuality – at least in her case – is a choice , the reaction within the gay community has been strong, swift and mixed. The harshest rebuke of the Sex and the City star has likely come from celebrity chef Cat Cora, who appeared yesterday on The Talk and said: “I’m gay, and I was born this way,” adding of Nixon’s view and how it could impact others: “I really feel like it was dangerous and irresponsible of Cynthia, especially in this environment today when so many young people are taking their lives.” Continued Cora, making a plea to the actress who is currently starring on Broadway: “I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you’re different. And for someone to say, ‘It’s a choice, you can be this way or that way,’ I think it’s dangerous and I ask Cynthia to please, reach out to the community and say – to all the people who do hate themselves right now, all the young kids who are impressionable – to say, ‘You’re OK, take it one day at a time, it gets better.'” Nixon has been in relationships with both men and women, but dismisses the classification of “bisexual.” I completely feel that when I was in relationships with men, I was in love and in lust with those men,” she told The Daily Beast . “And then I met [girlfriend Christine Marinoni] and I fell in love and lust with her. I am completely the same person and I was not walking around in some kind of fog. I just responded to the people in front of me the way I truly felt.” Finally, in a Huffington Post article , Tracy Baim – editor of the Chicag-based LGBT publication The Windy City Times – writes: “The bottom line is that those who hate us, want to cure us, or even kill us don’t really take the time to understand these nuances. “Yes, there are some who advocate a ‘nature made us this way’ argument to help us accept ourselves. But others still try to get gays to suppress their sexuality, or transgender people to suppress their gender identity, no matter how they got that way.”

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Cat Cora Calls Out Cynthia Nixon, View on Homosexuality as "Dangerous"