Is Gandalf Gay? Explorg The Wizard’s Sexualy

Contents:

• SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'
• IS GANDALF GAY? 'HOBB' STAR IAN MCKELLAN DE-SPELLS THE RUMORS
• IAN MCKELLEN: 'WHY HAS NO OPENLY GAY MAN EVER WON THE BT ACTOR OSR?'
• IS GANDALF GAY? EXPLORG THE WIZARD’S SEXUALY
• GANDALF/MAGO ACTOR IAN MCKELLEN: “ALL GAY MEN SHOULD BE TRANS ALLI"
• HALF OF HOLLYWOOD IS GAY, SAYS IAN MCKELLAN, WHO WAS NIED ROL BEE OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN

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

'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 . ’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. Homosexualy was illegal, so you didn’t draw attentn to yourself.

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

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.

Actor, as the gay film director Jam Whale,. social equaly for gay people. It’s been 33 years sce Sir Ian McKellen, the actor bt known as Gandalf the “Lord of the Rgs” anchise, me out as gay, and ma him a happier person and a better performer.

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. 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.

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

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.

IS GANDALF GAY? EXPLORG THE WIZARD’S SEXUALY

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. " Although McKellen me out over 30 years ago (he posted a celebratory tweet on his 30th anniversary of tellg the world he was gay), he has kept some tails of his love life unr of his most notable partners was theater and film director Sean Mathias. Ian McKellen, the veteran Brish actor who found global fame through the Lord of the Rgs movi, has utned that homophobia is as much of an issue among Amy voters as racism.

“No openly gay man has ever won the Osr; I wonr if that is prejudice or chance, ” he said, wh the implitn that he felt tend towards the Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sean Penn have all won bt actor Osrs for playg gay men. “My speech has been two jackets … ‘I’m proud to be the first openly gay man to w the Osr.

Very few people knew of Ian's homosexualy; he saw no reason to go public, nor had he told his fay. In 1988, Ian publicly me out of the closet on the BBC Rad 4 program, while discsg Margaret Thatcher's "Sectn 28" legislatn, which ma the promotn of homosexualy as a fay relatnship by lol thori an offense. He has been active the gay rights movement ever ris Limehoe, where he has also lived wh his former long-time partner Sean Mathias.

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

But is Gandalf gay?

Based on the books alone, people n safely assume that Gandalf is not gay. However, ’s also possible that Tolkien simply left out any sexual implitns sce was emed appropriate, pecially homosexualy, which was still illegal the U.

The actor prefers to keep the qutn open-end and even stated an terview, “Who’s to say Gandalf isn’t gay? ” It’s important to note that McKellen himself intifi as gay and has been out sce 1988.

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

No, Gandalf is not gay, but he may be nsired asexual.

Although McKellen never nsired Gandalf gay, he did state the possibily that the wizard may be asexual. Meanwhile, openly gay poet WH Aun, once said: “No fictn I have read the last five years has given me more joy.