Alan Cumming Talks Pushing For More LGBTQ+ Representation on 'The Traitors' Season 3
Alan Cumming is speaking out about getting more queer representation on The Traitors!
The 59-year-old entertainer, who identifies as bisexual, serves as host and producer of the reality competition series.
In a new interview, Alan opened up about pushing for more LGTBQ+ representation among the contestants for the upcoming third season, following the early exit of Peppermint in season two.
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“On a purely statistical basis, I think [the previous casts have been] very diverse racially and gender-wise, but there just wasn’t enough LGBTQ people represented,” he told EW. “It’s exposure therapy, it’s visibility. And you have to do it in every small way you can. We need to see that trans people are everywhere. They felt more comfortable to be visible in the last couple of decades. But historically, there’s always a backlash against change, and we are in the midst of a huge one right now. My response to that is to push back and say, ‘No, we’re not going to hide. Here are those people.’ And if I have a chance to help do that by just saying to the producers of The Traitors, ‘We need to make sure there’s more queer and trans people on the show,’ I will.”
“We’ve just got to be more representative,” Alan continued. “And even if there are more…. I think, ‘Why can’t we have more people on these shows than actually are, percentage-wise, in society?’ Why would that be so bad? It’s happened for centuries the other way around with white straight men. I mean, why are we being so shackled by our quotas? There should be trans and queer people everywhere, and people of color everywhere, until people just shut up and stop being so stupid and hateful about it.”
On the season three cast of The Traitors, there are six LGBTQ+ competitors – The Biggest Loser‘s Bob Harper, RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s Bob The Drag Queen, Selling Sunset‘s Chrishell Stause, The Bachelorette‘s Gabby Windey, Survivor‘s Carolyn Wiger and British royal Lord Ivar Mountbatten.
If you missed it, find out who else will be competing on season three…