Alan Cumming's memories of Election Night 2004: "We were just so desperately unhappy"

Alan Cumming was one of the celebrities I saw time and time again at the Democratic National Convention in his role as a member of the Creative Coalition. But I never heard him tell this story about how he dealt with John Kerry's loss to George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election:

Daily Intel reports:

The doe-eyed scamp doesn't quite remember where the evening started, but Harvey Weinstein was definitely there. The trouble began when the Hollywood impresario got a disappointing phone call from a Kerry campaigner in Florida. "I remember thinking, (expletive), it's actually not gonna happen," Cumming recalls. Wearing a "Worst President Ever" T-shirt, Cumming and his partner (now husband), Graham, "made this pact to each other that we'd go to every trashy gay bar we knew. I remember doing handstands at Splash. You know where the evening's going when you're doing handstands at Splash." Sounds like a normal night to us, but whatever!

Finally, in the wee hours of the morning, Cumming and friends "ended up in a hotel opposite ground zero with a tranny. We checked into a hotel because it was the only way we could think of getting more booze." Oh, a celeb-tranny like Lypsinka or something? we asked. "She wasn't famous. Nice though! We were just so desperately unhappy." This time around, "I'm just worried about what I'm going to do if Obama doesn't win. I feel like there will almost be a revolution. So I want to be in a safe space." Still, what we wouldn't give for an apocalyptic, self-destructive all-nighter of handstands and trannies with a pansexual Tony winner.

Wow. I just went home and got into the fetal position. Some people are so dramatic!