'The Traitors' host Alan Cumming says he 'lobbied quite hard' to add more LGBTQ contestants in season 3 after Peppermint's early exit: 'There should be trans and queer people everywhere.'
"There should be trans and queer people everywhere," says Entertainment Weekly's Pride cover star, "until people just shut up and stop being so stupid and hateful about it."Patrick Gomez is an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly. Formerly at People magazine and The A.V.
"I think it was just by chance," Cumming says of there being no ulterior motive behind the contestants targeting Peppermint, "I don't think that they had a disadvantage, but it would be better if there were more people there, so it didn't seem like they were token." to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.
With that in mind, Cumming says he"actually lobbied quite hard" for producers to increase the number of LGBTQ+ people in the"On a purely statistical basis, I think very diverse racially and gender-wise, but there just wasn't enough LGBTQ people represented," he explains. "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.
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