This funny incident is reported in today's New York Magazine Daily Intelligencer column: Cynthia Nixon showed up at last night's GLAAD Media Awards as an out-and-proud lesbian — a big step, given her involuntary outing by gossip columns a few years back — but her showy $50,000 donation to the LGBT cause, announced by GLAAD president Neil Giuliano in front of a capacity crowd at the Marriot Marquis, came as an even bigger surprise. Particularly, as it turns out, to Nixon herself. "I don't know if it was a joke or a case of mistaken identity," she said when we bumped into her later. "I donated $1,000." (This morning we were greeted with a voice message from a GLAAD flack setting the record straight, as it were.)
I'm just glad Nixon didn't pass out or something. After all, she's not getting those "Sex and the City" paychecks anymore and even though she won a Tony Award last year, the theater doesn't pay nearly as good as HBO!