Michael Cashman

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The Lord Cashman
CBE
File:MIchael-Cashman.jpg
Michael Cashman in 2009
Member of the European Parliament
for West Midlands
In office
10 June 1999 – 26 May 2014
Preceded by Position established
Personal details
Born (1950-12-17) 17 December 1950 (age 74)
London, England
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Profession Actor

Michael Maurice Cashman, Baron Cashman CBE (born 17 December 1950 in London) is a British former actor, and former Labour politician. He was a founder member of Stonewall UK the homosexual extremist lobby group. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency from 1999 until he stood down in 2014.[1] He has since then been appointed to the House of Lords.[2] On 23 September 2014 Cashman was appointed the Labour Party's special envoy on LGBT issues worldwide. In 2019 he resigned from the Labour Party because of its stance on the EU.[3]

Acting

A former child actor, Cashman had a long career principally on television in supporting roles. His first television appearance was in the 14th episode "The Tin God" of the ITC series Gideon's Way filmed in 1964 and aired in 1965. He had been in the business for more than twenty years when he landed his best known role as Colin Russell in BBC TV's EastEnders – a character remembered for the first homosexual kiss in a British soap opera.

He is the treasurer of Equity and led the campaign to obtain pension rights for members.

Politics

Cashman is one of the founders of Stonewall, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, a Patron of The Food Chain, a London-based HIV charity and a patron of LGBT Labour.

In the European Parliament he was Labour spokesman on human rights.

A member of the Civil Liberties Committee, Cashman has been a rapporteur on several key initiatives including an important initiative on funerals of those who die in third countries – an issue he was motivated to act on after the death of his own father.

In the Petitions Committee, where he is first vice-chair, he has been working on the so-called Spanish Land Grab crisis.[4]

In the EU he took part in a cross-party coalition to impose the LGBT agenda throughout Europe. He has in the past supported the gay pride march in Warsaw, which he attended.[5] He is also the President of the European Parliament's Intergroup on gay and lesbian issues. Cashman is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. In 2014, he criticised McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Visa Inc. during a session of parliament in protest at their sponsorship of the 2014 Winter Olympics taking place in Sochi, Russia, despite Vladimir Putin having recently introduced legislation protecting against LGBT indoctrination of children. Cashman cut up his Visa card during the session.[6]

In 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Staffordshire for his human rights work.[7] That same year he was elected MEP of the Year for Justice and Fundamental Rights by his peers.[8]

Cashman was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for public and political service.[9]

It was reported on 8 August 2014 Cashman was to be among 22 new life peers announced by the government.[10] On 23 September 2014 he was created a Life Peer taking the title Baron Cashman, of Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,[11] which is also his birthplace.

In June 2015 Cashman announced his involvement and investment in SuitLink Ltd., a global LGBT and ally professional social network.[12][13]

In 2007, Cashman supported Alan Johnson for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party. In 2010, he supported David Miliband for the leadership of the party. In 2015, Cashman supported Yvette Cooper for the leadership and gave his second preference to Liz Kendall.

Personal life and Expenses Scandal

Cashman registered a civil partnership with Paul Cottingham, his partner of over twenty years, on 11 March 2006. Cashman made it clear in interviews and in his autobiography that his relationship with Cottingham, a fellow actor, was never monogamous. [14] In 2008 it emerged that Cashman had been paying Cottingham more than £8,000 per month since 2002 from his taxpayer-funded expenses, ostensibly for secretarial services in Brussels. Cashman at this time lived in London and had a full-time job running a PR company called Cause Celebre, which held expensive receptions and fund-raising events for the Labour party. [15] Cashman did not deny it. Cottingham died of cancer on 23 October 2014.[16][17]

Decline of Popularity

Cashman's reputation and popularity have sharply declined because of his advocacy of transgender ideology and the transitioning of children, both of which are Stonewall UK policies.

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In 2020, Stonewall featured him in a fund-raising campaign. Donors were invited to bid for the honor of meeting him, with the auction starting at £500. The minimum bid was not met and so the auction was closed.

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