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In what can only be seen as a serious blow to closeted gays throughout the entertainment industry, recently Emmy-winning Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon outed herself in the pages of today's NY Daily News. Yes, yes, our minds are blown, etc etc. The public really stood no chance of figuring this out before the official (exclusive!) announcement, as the wily lesbian employed every trick in the book to keep anyone from divining her sexuality—being photographed with voracious female-lover Tom Cruise and, as the NYDN reported, "by going alone, or with her mother, to media-magnet events." Indeed, there's nothing that scrambles the gaydar like bringing one's mom to an awards show.