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    His killer 'Instinct': Alan Cumming is making history as the gay lead character in CBS' new drama, but it's just the latest move in a line of creative coups

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Mar 20, 2018 4 minutes

    In the new CBS crime procedural "Instinct," Alan Cumming plays Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a former CIA operative and musical savant turned Ivy League professor and bestselling criminal psychopathology expert who rides a motorcycle, wears natty Savile Row suits and eats pizza with a fork and knife.

    And, oh, yeah, he's married to a man.

    "His sexuality is not what the story's about," said Cumming in his rolling Scottish burr, during a recent visit to California attired in a relatively subdued (for him) cornflower blue suit and gray brogues. "It's way down the list of attributes he has, and I like that. But obviously it's good to be newsworthy."

    At a time when LGBTQ characters are more visible than

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