\n
![\"alan](\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cumming.jpg?resize=195%2C195\")
<\/p>\nAlan Cumming Tells Seth Meyers Why His Gay Lead Character in \u2018Instinct\u2019 is Making TV History: WATCH<\/b>
\n<\/p>\n
As we reported in January, Alan Cumming premieres this week in the procedural crime drama\u00a0Instinct<\/em>\u00a0as an openly gay<\/a>\u00a0former CIA operative and is making network TV history in that role.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the first time on a network drama that there\u2019s been a gay<\/a> character in the leading role,\u201d said Cumming to Seth Meyers on Late Night.<\/p>\n Cumming expanded on the significance of that:<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like the fourth or fifth thing of the characteristics of this person is that he\u2019s gay<\/a> and married and a happy solid marriage. And actually, what I think is really amazing is that most of the time, especially on network TV when someone is gay<\/a>, when there\u2019s a gay<\/a> character it\u2019s like, \u2018they\u2019re gay<\/a> gay<\/a> gay<\/a>\u2019 and it\u2019s all about their sexuality and usually in a negative way. But the fact that this has a character whose gayness is way down the list of things that are most important about him is a positive thing and also the fact that when you do see his same-sex<\/a> life it\u2019s in a really positive way and that\u2019s two things I don\u2019t think are represented enough in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the clip above.<\/p>\n The post Alan Cumming Tells Seth Meyers Why His Gay Lead Character in \u2018Instinct\u2019 is Making TV History: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\nRELATED:\u00a0Alan Cumming to Be First Openly Gay Lead Character in a Network Drama, in CBS Crime Drama \u2018Instinct\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n