Mario Cantone on Friday's edition of
ABC's The View announced that he had married long-term partner
Jerry Dixon.
The 51-year-old Cantone is best know
for playing Anthony Marentino on HBO's long-running drama Sex and
the City. The Tony Award-nominated actor is also a regular stage
performer with numerous Broadway credits, including Assassins,
Laugh Whore, which he also wrote, and Love! Valour!
Compassion!
Cantone said he and Dixon were married
on his New York rooftop by Jay Bakker – the son of televangelists
Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker Messner – who heads the
gay-inclusive Revolution
Church.
(Related: Michele
Bachmann, Rick Perry have hijacked Christianity, says Jay Bakker.)
“It was beautiful, because my family
was there,” Cantone said, then, turning to co-host Joy Behar added:
“I got married for the same reasons you did. We're older now.
We've been together 20 years. After 20 years, you're like, 'Thanks
for the anti-climactic honeymoon government!”
“It was beautiful, just my family
there. I love him. He's a good man,” he added. (The video is
embedded in the right panel of this page.)