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Is “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon homosexual or bisexual?

She says she’s a lesbian by choice, a statement that has angered the gay community. But the mother of two who conceived those children with a former boyfriend also says she has her reasons for not saying she’s bisexual.

"I don't pull out the 'bisexual' word because nobody likes the bisexuals,” she said in an interview with the Daily Beast. “Everybody likes to dump on the bisexuals. We get no respect."

By saying “we,” isn’t that implying that she is, indeed, “bi”?

"I just don't like to pull out that word,” she said in her interview with the Daily Beast’s Kevin Sessums.

Nixon and her ex, Daniel Mozes, broke up in 2003. They have two children: Charlie, 9, and 15-year-old Samantha. Currently, Nixon is engaged to her longtime partner, Christine Marinoni, with whom she has an 11-month-old son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni.

“I do completely feel that when I was in relationships with men, I was in love and in lust with those men,” she told Sessums. “And then I met Christine 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," she said.

Meanwhile, it’s what she told The New York Times magazine about her sexual orientation that drew an angry response from the LGBT community.

“For me, it is a choice," Nixon was quoted as saying in The Times. "I understand that for many people it's not, but for me it's a choice, and you don't get to define my gayness for me.”

The New York Daily News reported that among the angriest responses to that statement came from gay activist John Aravosis.

"If you like both flavors, men and women, you're bisexual, you're not gay, so please don't tell people that you are gay, and that gay people can 'choose' their sexual orientation, i.e., will it out of nowhere. Because they can't," Aravosis blogged on the AmericaBlog Gay website.

"Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights," he added.

Nixon refused to budge, however.

"It seems we're just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don't think that they should define the terms of the debate," Nixon told the Daily News. "I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn't realize I was gay, which I find really offensive."

Nixon appeared on the TV show “Live with Kelly” on Jan. 24 sporting a bald head, which she shaved for her role as a cancer patient in the Broadway show “Wit.”

—JOE GREENE, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM