Cynthia Nixon Fights Back
By Elizabeth Benjamin, www.nydailynews.com March 10, 2010
Fight Back NY, the new LGBT-funded political action committee that is targeting senators who helped defeat the gay marriage bill last year, has released a new Web video starring “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon.
“I’m supporting Fight Back New York so we can finally show these anti-equality senators that there are consequences to their actions,” Nixon says.
“That they can lose their seats for voting against our rights. Fight Back New York is smart, strategic political action committee with the sole purpose of defeating senators who voted ‘no’ on equality.”
In the video, Nixon also discusses how she is “not OK” with the fact that she isn’t legally able to marry her fiancée, Christine Marinoni, to whom she announced her engagement at a marriage equality rally last May.
Nixon and Marinoni traveled to Albany last summer to lobby the Legislature on marriage. They were joined in their efforts by Valerie Berlin, whose firm, BerlinRosen, is repping Fight Back NY, and her partner, Amy Rutkin.
Fight Back NY’s first target is Hiram Monserrate, who enraged the LGBT community by joining seven fellow Democrats in voting “no” on marriage last December. Marriage advocates considered this a betrayal, insisting Monserrate had pledged to vote “yes” back when he was running unopposed for the seat vacated by ex-Sen. John Sabini.
To see Cynthia Nison’s PSA, click here
