At a rally for gay rights in New York this weekend, Cynthia Nixon announced her engagement to girlfriend Christine Marinoni, the Sex and the City star’s rep confirms to E! News.

The couple have been together since late 2003, shortly after Nixon split from her longtime companion, Danny Mozes. The exes share custody of their two children, Samantha, 12, and Charles, 6.

Nixon revealed the news to an audience during the Love, Peace and Marriage Equality rally in New York City. The actress and Marinoni became engaged last month and are currently working to support a new bill for same-sex unions proposed by New York Gov. David Paterson.

Access Hollywood first reported the engagement.

Nixon and the rest of the Sex and the City gang are set to start filming the movie’s sequel this summer.

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Cynthia Nixon sliced and diced the New York Post with her rapier wit last week after the truth-challenged tabloid reported that the “Sex and the City” star had undergone breast-enhancement surgery.

“I was at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital for my ‘three-monthly’ checkup,” said Nixon, a breast-cancer survivor. “I was in the Oncology Department. I guess they think that means ‘plastic surgery.’” Badum-bump!

“We got a call from [the Post] asking if I’d had breast augmentation, and my publicist laughed at them and said, ‘No, of course not.’ But they printed it anyway. If I was going to get a boob job, wouldn’t it make sense that I’d get it before ‘Sex and the City’?” Ba-dump!

Especially since she goes topless in a steamy sex scene in the movie.

“Yes, I had breast cancer, but I had a lumpectomy,” Nixon explained. “Some women have reconstructive surgery, but mine did not merit that.
“The story was totally false. It would be annoying and disheartening in any case, but particularly because I’ve been so open about my breast cancer.”

On June 7, Nixon led the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in D.C., helping to raise nearly $5 million in the fight against the disease, from which she’s been clear since spring 2007.

Nixon doesn’t mind all the crazy-level media attention she’s gotten. “I can get the message out to women who are scared or lackadaisical about getting mammograms. A totally routine mammogram found mine, and if you catch it early there’s a 98% survival rate.”

Plus, she gets to hang with the likes of Michelle Obama, as she did the other night at a benefit. “I told her Miranda endorsed Hillary, but I support Obama. And she told me ‘Sex and the City’ was the only grown-up movie she’s seen in months.”

Nixon and partner Christine Marinoni, now a stay-at-home mom to Nixon’s two kids, have decided not to go to California to get married: “In an ideal world, we’d like to do it in New York, when it becomes legalized. Hopefully, it won’t take 20 years.”

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Maybe seeing themselves on the big screen was too much to take for “Sex and the City” stars Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. Apparently, soon after the movie’s release, they both paid a visit to Roosevelt Hospital on 10th Avenue for minor surgeries. “Cynthia had a breast augmentation and soon after, Kristin had the varicose veins on her legs removed,” said an insider. “They both made sure they did it on the quietest day of the week.” It could explain why Davis always wears long hems. Nixon, whose rep denied the surgery, could have been disappointed with her topless scene. Davis’ rep had no comment.

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Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker

FLAME-haired Cynthia Nixon is letting some of the “Sex and the City: The Movie” secrets slip out. At the Creation Nation comedy show at the Zipper Theater Tuesday night, Nixon told host Billy Eichner, “a character dies in the movie” – but refused to divulge which one. One audience member told Page Six, “Cynthia explained that she was too busy as a child actor to experiment with girls to realize she was a lesbian” – to which Eichner responded, “as an actress you started out very young, but as a lesbian you started out very old.”

Cynthia Nixon, known for her role as feisty attorney Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City, revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago.

Nixon, 42, said she had gone for her “completely routine mammogram” in 2006 when she got a call from her gynecologist.

“She says, ‘Well I have some, it’s not such great news,’” Nixon revealed on Good Morning America Tuesday (Watch here).

Even though she said she felt “scared … I was very cognizant of it,” Nixon said. “If it’s going to happen, this is the best way for it to happen – that it’s found so early, and we can just get right on it.”

Nixon said she “made a big point” of telling her two children she had the disease. (Nixon is currently dating NYC-based activist Christine Marinoni, following a 2003 split from beau, Danny Mozes.)

“I basically told them they found some cancer in my right breast,” Nixon recalled saying. “It’s very small and it’s very early.

“I’m going to have an operation, they’re going to take it out, and then we’re going to have six-and-a-half weeks of radiation, every weekday,” she went on. “This is what grandma went through, and I’m going to be fine.”

Nixon — who said she kept her diagnosis private because “I didn’t want paparazzi at the hospital” — revealed that her mother had also overcome breast cancer.

“As the daughter of a breast cancer survivor,” knowing my personal risk made me more aware and more empowered when I faced my own diagnosis,” she said.

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Cancer survivor Evan Handler and Light the Night Spokesperson Cynthia Nixon

More than 7,000 walkers pay tribute at the South Street Seaport and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to help the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society raise more that $2.2 million for cancer research.