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[[File:AlanCummingSept2013TIFF.jpg|thumb|Alan Cummingin September 2013]]
'''Alan Cumming''' (born {{LifeData|birth=1965-01-27 January 1965|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
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cumming#Personal_life
|title=Alan Cumming: Personal life
}}</ref>
== Citations ==
{{Citation
|Title=Alan Cumming on circumcision
|Author=[[Alan Cumming]]
|ref=<ref>https://facebook.com/endgenitalcutting/</ref>
}}
In a long 2020 interview at ''The Guardian'', Cumming confirmed his opposition to circumcision:
{{Citation
|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
|ref=<ref>{{REFnews
|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
}}</ref>
}}