1. Michael Cashman has been a member of the House of Lords since 2014.
22 Facts About Michael Cashman
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Michael Cashman appeared with the National Youth Theatre in Zigger Zagger at the Strand Theatre in the West End in March 1968.
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In 1980, Michael Cashman was a regular in series two and three of ITV's The Sandbaggers as Mike Wallace, codenamed Sandbagger 2.
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Michael Cashman played First Officer Bilton in the Doctor Who serial Time-Flight in March 1982.
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Michael Cashman had been in the business for more than 20 years when he landed the role of Colin Russell in the BBC's soap opera EastEnders in 1986.
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Michael Cashman remained a regular character in the series until 1989.
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Michael Cashman appeared at the National Theatre in Martin Sherman's play Bent with Ian McKellen, where his understudy was Christopher Eccleston.
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Michael Cashman briefly reprised the role again in 2022 for the funeral of Dot Branning.
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Michael Cashman is a founder 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.
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Michael Cashman is a trenchant critic of discrimination against minorities within the European Union.
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Michael Cashman led a cross-party coalition to tackle the rise in homophobia throughout Europe.
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Michael Cashman was the president of the European Parliament's Intergroup on gay and lesbian issues.
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Michael Cashman was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for public and political service.
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On 23 September 2014, Michael Cashman was appointed Labour's special envoy on LGBT issues worldwide.
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In June 2015, Michael Cashman announced his involvement and investment in SuitLink Ltd.
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In 2007, Michael Cashman supported Alan Johnson for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party.
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Michael Cashman released his memoir One of Them: From Albert Square to Parliament Square with Bloomsbury Publishing in February 2020.
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Michael Cashman resigned from the Labour Party on 22 May 2019 in opposition to Brexit, and offered his support to the Liberal Democrats.
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Michael Cashman sat in the Lords as a non-affiliated peer, before returning to Labour on 11 January 2022.
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Shortly afterwards, he lost the Labour whip with Sir Keir Starmer saying Michael Cashman's comments were "totally inappropriate".
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Michael Cashman registered a civil partnership with Paul Cottingham, his partner of over twenty years, on 11 March 2006.
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Michael Cashman was cremated in a humanist service at the City of London Crematorium on 7 November 2014.