Actor, TV host and cabaret star Alan Cumming has shared that he no longer gets frustrated when people mislabel his sexuality.
Cumming publicly shared that he’s bisexual in 1998. He’s been married to husband Grant Shaffer since 2007. He was previously involved with actor Saffrom Burrows and was previously married to Hilary Lyon for eight years.
In an extensive new interview with Buzzfeed, Cumming said he no longer gets frustrated when the media describes him as being gay rather than bisexual.
“I let that one go,” he said when asked about his sexuality being mislabeled.
“I mean I try to, when I have a chance to, define myself as bisexual. But if people say gay — I like queer, actually, because it’s more all-encompassing, and it doesn’t necessarily have to do with what you do with the contents of your underpants. It’s more of a sort of sensibility as well. I quite like that.” Cumming said.
While Cumming has played a wide range of roles in film and television, toured the world as a cabaret performer, strutted the boards of Broadway and delivered quite a few travel-based shows on television, in recent times he’s made his mark as the host of the US version of The Traitors.
While the Australian edition of the reality TV show didn’t last long, the US version has been a smash. Cumming hosts the show in a wild variety of outfits that you’d never see Roger Corser in. For Cumming it’s quite a queer show.
“The Traitors is such a queer show.” he said. “There’s me at the center of it, being super queer with all my crazy outfits. Two of the winners this year are queer people, and that’s so lovely. I really did push to have a better representation in the show, and that’s certainly worked.”
