Media scares gay actors from coming out

Published: May 2, 2008, 10:30 am

Tags: abroad, celebrities, news, tv, actors, alan cumming, hollywood, uk, usa

Actor Alan Cumming has been quoted as saying that the medias attitude of actors who are gay is actually stopping more people from the industry from coming out. The actor who has starred in the X Men, James Bond, Spy Kids and the hit Sci Fi show The Tin Man has been living in the US for some ten years. He was married last year to his partner Grant Shaffer in a civil ceremony, but feels that he is lucky enough to have been able to play a wide range of parts. Selected quotes by Alan Cumming in a recent interview: “I don’t think the people that go see films care that much - the media make it more of a deal and it’s made into controversy,” “There is a lot of homophobia in the world - but in Hollywood definitely.” “I’m quite outspoken in the media about what I perceive as a civil rights struggle that gay people in America are still going through. “But I don’t think that I only play gay characters, or I

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