Actor Alan Cumming has called on
President Barack Obama to back up his gay marriage endorsement with
legislation.
Cumming, who married his partner Grant
Shaffer in New York City on the fifth anniversary of their British
civil partnership in January, told The Huffington Post that he
would like to see more than “a nice message” from the president.
“I think it's great that we have a
president that's spoken out and has support for gay marriage,”
Cumming
said. “It needs to start from the top and it needs to actually
be legislation as well as just a nice message.”
“In this last election, I think it
was really clear that, to everyone apart from the Republican party,
that the country has changed, the world has changed, and there's
certain things, like gay rights, that need to be addressed,” he
added.
Cumming's support for Obama has been
jagged – he's blasted the president for doing “diddly squat” on
gay rights and called on LGBT people to stick by him.
The 47-year-old Cumming currently stars
in the film Any
Day Now.