Alan Cumming on Newsweek Writer: “He is a Self-Hating Gay, and He is a Danger to Us All”

Tony winner Alan Cumming took to his own website to slam Newsweek writer Ramin Seetodeh fir his recent article that took to task openly gay actors in straight roles.

Seetodeh singled out recent work by Sean Hayes and Jonathan Groff specifically and has been slammed for his comments by Kristen Chenoweth, Ryan Murphy, Dustin Lance Black, Michael Urie and Cheyenne Jackson, among others.

Here’s some of what the openly gay Cumming, who has played many straight roles in his career on stage, film and television, had to say:

Ramin Seetodeh is gay. He is a self-hating gay, and he is a danger to us all … But sadly he is not alone. His article has ignited a conversation that I think highlights the fact that self-hating gays operate at the highest level of the entertainment industry: casting directors, producers, directors, agents, managers, publicists, who are themselves gay willingly engage in the oppression of their fellow gay actors. An actor who is publicly out is not heralded as a role model or celebrated amongst this dark little band of unhappy people but derided and mocked, and their exclusion from projects in which they might play straight is borne, often, by this band of their self-hating brothers and sisters.