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'''Alan Cumming''' ( | '''Alan Cumming''' ({{LifeData|birth=1965-01-27|birthplace=Aberfeldy (Perthshire)|birthcountry=Scotland, UK}}), is a Scottish-American actor, singer, writer, producer, director, and activist who has appeared in numerous films, television shows, and plays.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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== Citations == | |||
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|Title=Alan Cumming on circumcision | |Title=Alan Cumming on circumcision | ||
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In a long 2020 interview at ''The Guardian'', Cumming confirmed his opposition to circumcision: | |||
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|Title=I never thought about my foreskin until I came to America | |||
|Text=As well as campaigning for LGBTQ+ equality and HIV charities, Cumming is outspoken against male circumcision. | |||
<q>I never thought anything about my foreskin,</q> he says, <q>and then I came to America and I was having sex and people would just be gasping because they’d never seen a foreskin before. I was made to feel weird and freakish because I had an intact body.</q> | |||
<q>It’s genital mutilation. And I think people say: <q>Oh, that’s hysterical.</q> But we do it to girls and it’s called genital mutilation.</q> As for the religious grounds for circumcision, he believes these are “ridiculous”: <q>We choose to keep doing some things and we just let the weirdest things go.</q> | |||
|Author=[[Alan Cumming]] | |||
|Source=The Guardian | |||
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|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/apr/29/alan-cumming-i-never-thought-about-my-foreskin-until-i-came-to-america?CMP=share_btn_fb | |||
|title=Alan Cumming: ‘I never thought about my foreskin until I came to America’ | |||
|last=Godfrey | |||
|first=Chris | |||
|publisher=The Guardian | |||
|date=2020-04-29 | |||
|accessdate=2020-04-29 | |||
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