Alan Cumming on being mislabeled as gay & the queerness of ‘Traitors’: “I really did push to have better representation”

I let that one go [about being mislabeled]. 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.

The Traitors is such a queer show. 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.

With all these draconian, horrific things, laws, and attitudes against the queer

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