Call me crazy, but I kind of thought that Alan Cumming was mostly straight. Sure, I knew he had sex with men, but I thought that his bisexuality swung more towards lady-love than dong-love. I was wrong. Alan has been with the same dude for years and years. They had a civil partnership ceremony five years ago, and for their anniversary, they just got married!!! Mazel tov!

Actor Alan Cumming has married his long-time love Grant Shaffer for the second time. The couple celebrated the fifth anniversary of their civil partnership in London by exchanging vows in New York this weekend.

The 46-year-old Scot revealed the news on Twitter, writing: ‘I just got married!’ He posted a picture of the overjoyed couple embracing after the nuptials, held at the Soho Grand Hotel. In the picture, Cumming and Shaffer are seen smiling and hugging while their are applauded by their friends and family.

The Good Wife star wrote later: ‘On the 5th anniversary of our wedding in London Grant and I tied the knot again in NYC!!! #eatmericksantorum’

His message ‘Eat me Rick Santorum’ refers to the candidate Republican nomination for president, who is vocal in his opposition to gay marriage.

The couple, who reside in New York, were first married at the Old Royal Naval College Greenwich on January 7, 2007 after two years of dating. At 21, Cumming married his RSADA classmate Hilary Lyon. They split eight years later, and Cumming was later engaged to his Circle of Friends co-star Saffron Burrows.

The X Men star, who was awarded an OBE in 2009, has labelled himself as bisexual in previous interviews. Speaking to Oasis magazine in 2007, he said it had always been known among his inner circle, but he felt the need to ‘come out’ publicly.

‘It was all sort of there, but when you become more famous then you realize you’ve got to say something… just to clarify it and talk about it, and make sure it was talked about in terms that I approved of because people try and claim you, I think. The gay community tries to claim you, the straight community tries to claim you. But I felt that was more for press stuff, because I just felt I was being misrepresented a lot of the time, mostly with people saying I was straight. It is confusing for people because I’d been married before. Now I’m married again, to a man, but I’d been married to a woman, and gone out with women. And then, I hadn’t really had regular relationships with men, long-term ones, I mean. But amongst my friends, amongst people I’d known, I was always bisexual.’

[From The Mail]

You know what? I would still hit it like a house on fire. I think Alan is so sexy, and he seems like a hoot too. I’m strangely happy to learn that he’s been in a committed relationship with the same man for so long, though – and it’s so amazing that Alan and Grant were finally able to marry. Yay! Oh, and EAT ME RICK SANTORUM.

PS… I can’t even describe how much pleasure I got from these photos. Alan’s eye makeup is so much better than Duchess Kate’s.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Alan‘s Twitter.