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Sir Ian McKellen, known for the rol of Gandalf and Mago, has spoken out on members of the gay muny that opprs trans people.

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SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'

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'Comg out as gay was the bt thg I ever did': Gandalf star and theatre legend Ian McKellen on his bravt cisn By Bob Flynn The rich, ronant voice fills the room, flowg like vtage we om a crystal nter. A lateer to the big screen, gay activist and natnal treasure, he first found mastream fame as the mutant villa Mago the X-Men films. ‘They’ve ma so many social advanc, wh women at the top ernment for a long time, and they got rid of their gay laws long before .

IS GANDALF GAY? 'HOBB' STAR IAN MCKELLAN DE-SPELLS THE RUMORS

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’McKellen has been a high-profile mpaigner for gay rights sce he me out, at 49, durg a BBC rad terview. He was the vanguard of openly gay artists and November 1990, Margaret Thatcher remend him for a knighthood. ‘In the Fifti and Sixti, the life of a gay man was a secret.

IAN MCKELLEN: 'WHY HAS NO OPENLY GAY MAN EVER WON THE BT ACTOR OSR?'

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Homosexualy was illegal, so you didn’t draw attentn to yourself. But g out is the bt thg I ever did and I’ve never met a gay person who didn’t thk the same. ‘Even now there are young actors who want reers as romantic leadg men and the bt thg is not to reveal you’re gay.

’But spe of all the offers, he has never been tempted to move there and has lived the same Victorian hoe Limehoe, London’s East End, for 30 year, apart om ntug wh the Hobb saga and a new X-Men film, McKellen -stars wh Derek Jabi Vic, a TV edy seri about a bickerg gay uple sharg a flat London — the first time they have acted together sce spe a long reer filled wh aclas, McKellen’s greatt thrill was appearg Coronatn Street 2005.

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IS GANDALF GAY? EXPLORG THE WIZARD’S SEXUALY

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While his actg reer is nothg short of imprsive, his support for LGBT social movements is also McKellen is gay. I thk 's offensive to anyone who is, like myself, homosexual, apart om the whole bs of what n or nnot be tght to children.

GANDALF/MAGO ACTOR IAN MCKELLEN: “ALL GAY MEN SHOULD BE TRANS ALLI"

In 2009, he admted that the “only good thg” he uld say about Clse 28 – fully repealed 2003 – was that enuraged him to e out as gay not only ma [Ian McKellen] a happier person but also a better actor.

HALF OF HOLLYWOOD IS GAY, SAYS IAN MCKELLAN, WHO WAS NIED ROL BEE OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN

BIGGEST REGRETHe nfsed that tellg the world he was gay was a “huge mounta” he thought he would never climb. Margery died when McKellen was 12, the same year that he realized he was gay.

He even enuraged them to e out as now “’s perfectly possible” to be gay and get more than jt gay rol. MCKELLEN BECAME A BETTER ACTORMcKellen knows this firsthand as g out as gay not only ma him a happier person but also a better actor.

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