{"id":77456,"date":"2024-02-21T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/alan-cumming-wants-to-support-the-lgbtq-community\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:01:36","slug":"alan-cumming-wants-to-support-the-lgbtq-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/alan-cumming-wants-to-support-the-lgbtq-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming wants to support the LGBTQ community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-02-21\" datetime=\"1708531296\" pubdate=\"\">21 February 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/alan-cumming\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,alan-cumming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Cumming<\/a> feels a &#8220;duty&#8221; to support members of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Alan Cumming is keen to support the LGBTQ community<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old actor &#8211; who came out as bisexual in 1998 &#8211; has revealed that he&#8217;s keen to lend his support to &#8220;young queer people who are feeling that they don&#8217;t belong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Alan told PEOPLE: &#8220;As a member of that community and a proud one, I feel I have a duty actually as someone who has a platform to look back and remember what it felt like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel that there were role models and people who were well known speaking out [when I was growing up]. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why wouldn&#8217;t I want to help young queer people who are feeling that they don&#8217;t belong and that they&#8217;re worried about their future when there&#8217;s someone like me who has also felt like that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAlan dated men and women before marrying Grant Shaffer back in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor now believes he met his husband at the perfect point in his life.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlan &#8211; who was also married to Hilary Lyon between 1985 and 1993 &#8211; explained: &#8220;I&#8217;d had a lot of bad failed relationships, and I was ready to not have a bad one.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s certain things that happened in my life that have made me who I am and made me understand myself so much better. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;By the time I met Grant &#8211; we started going out with each other when we were nearly 40 &#8211; all those things had sort of come out and I had done a lot of therapy. I was ready to be honest and open about what I could bring to the table and what I felt I wasn&#8217;t capable of. We started our relationship just being very honest with each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/alan-cumming-wants-support-lgbtq-community-1394963.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 February 2024 Alan Cumming feels a &#8220;duty&#8221; to support members of the LGBTQ community. 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