Actor Alan Cumming will skip Sundance - and the premiere of his new movie, "Dare" - because it's the same week as another event he wants to attend: Barack Obama's inaugural.

And, yes, the fact that Cumming is gay has something to do with his choice.

Cumming told The New York Post's Page Six column that Obama is "someone who I believe will make America a place where gay people will be respected and given true equality."

The Page Six writer cites Cumming's choice as another sign that a proposed boycott of the Sundance Film Festival - by gay activists mad at Utah for being home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members backed the gay-marriage ban Prop. 8 in California - is gaining traction.