AlanCumming reveals he's returned his OBE due to the 'toxicity' of the British empire
Alan Cumming has returned a honour bestowed upon him by the late Queen Elizabeth II.
“Today is my 58th birthday and I want to tell you about something I recently did for myself. I returned my OBE,” he wrote.“Fourteen years ago, I was incredibly grateful to receive it in the 2009 Queen’s birthday honours list, for it was awarded not just for my job as an actor but ‘for activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community, USA’.
However, he noted, the recent passing of the Queen and and increased scrutiny of royals’ forbears accumulating wealth via slavery and other byproducts of colonialism made him ponder what exactly it meant to be a Officer of the British Empire.
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