Nearly 11 years after Sex and the City concluded, viewers saw a change in Miranda Hobbes when she planned to split from her longtime husband, Steve Brady, to pursue something new with Che Diaz - though actress Cynthia Nixon asserts that it’s hardly a new character development.“Even though she was only really interested in men, I think that Miranda had many other queer and, frankly, lesbianic qualities about her,” the Gilded Age star, 56, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday, June 1. “And I think for a lot of gay women, she - we didn’t have a gay woman - but she was a stand-in for the gay women we didn’t have.”She continued: “Miranda has always grappled with power, and female power versus male power, and women getting the short end of the stick - and that’s a big issue for women who are queer.
