'I’m now back to being plain old Alan Cumming again,' the actor wrote.
Alan Cumming announced he has returned an award that was given to him by Queen Elizabeth II more than 10 years ago.in a post for his birthday on Jan. 27. In the caption, the actor wrote in part, “Today is my 58th birthday and I want to tell you about something I recently did for myself. I returned my OBE.”
“Fourteen years ago, I was incredibly grateful to receive it in the 2009 Queen’s birthday honours list, for it was awarded not just for my job as an actor but ‘for activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community, USA,’” he wrote in the caption.
“Thank you to the Queen and those who make up her Birthday honours list for bringing attention to the inaction of the US government on this issue,” the statement continued. “It makes me very proud to be British, and galvanised as an American.”, Cumming said that he has come to understand certain details about the monarchy which drove his decision to return the award.
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