Ian McKellen: 'X-Men was a gay man’s light, bee was full of the most amazg divas' | Osrs 2016 | The Guardian

Contents:

• IAN MCKELLEN: 'X-MEN WAS A GAY MAN’S LIGHT, BEE WAS FULL OF THE MOST AMAZG DIVAS'
• MCKELLEN WANTS GAY SEX SCENE
• THE GAY LEFT BE MAGO
• IS PATRICK STEWART GAY? THE PROFSOR X ACTOR WAS PREVLY SPOTTED KISSG THE MAGO ACTOR, IAN MCKELLEN!
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'

IAN MCKELLEN: 'X-MEN WAS A GAY MAN’S LIGHT, BEE WAS FULL OF THE MOST AMAZG DIVAS'

The story, which Oliveria sets the time ame of the earlit X-Men ics, follows a young Iceman/Bobby Drake as he begs to velop Gay Feelgs™ and simultaneoly feels the prsure to closet himself. Among the CCA’s l were bans on pictns of “sex perversn” and “sexual abnormali” — a pole way of sayg “don’t show anythg gay.

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While not explic dog so, Oliveira sts Mago the role of the gay elr, someone who both directly affirms Bobby (and rears) speech and directly affirms him as a symbol of survivorship.

MCKELLEN WANTS GAY SEX SCENE

The reason I say “role” of gay elr is bee no Marvel story (to my knowledge) has ma Mago explicly gay, though often feels heavily implied that his relatnship wh Profsor X isn’t strictly platonic.

List of characters who intify as gay or lbian (attracted to someone of the same genr). “When I me out as a gay man, was expected by some gay activists that my whole attu to life would change, and I’d bee a queer artists and only do thgs wh gay them, ” McKellen relled.

’”He and Halle Berry are like brother and sisterIan McKellen as Mago Photograph: Fox“X-Men was a gay man’s light, bee was full of the most amazg divas, ” McKellen said of the anchise, which he played the villao mutant Mago, before Michael Fassbenr went on to assume the the large st whom he worked wh on the films, McKellen said he bond clost wh Halle Berry, who played Storm.

THE GAY LEFT BE MAGO

’“Lo and behold she out as gay woman, and my God has she found her voice.

Brish actor SIR Ian McKellen plaed on the set of upg sequel X-Men: THE LAST STAND, bee he wanted his character MAGNETO to have some gay sex scen. THE LORD OF THE RINGS star, who has been openly gay sce 1988, sists a homoerotic sub-plot would have enhanced the movie. Twentieth Century FoxIf the subtextual homoerotic love affair between Mago (Michael Fassbenr) and Profsor X (Jam McAvoy) the X-Men saga wasn't tablished non before X-Men: First Class, is now.

But cir 2011, cultural divisns over race have been supplanted the popular Amerin nscns by a bate over gay rights, and the latt X-Men film has updated Profsor X and Mago's adversarial relatnship thly. But the film n also be easily read as a gay pri allegory, as well as a story of te love gone horribly wrong. Edward's Universy At, Texas, who ntributed a chapter lled "Makg Gay Sense of the X-Men" to the textbook Unverg Hidn Rhetorics: Social Issu Disguise eded by Barry S.

IS PATRICK STEWART GAY? THE PROFSOR X ACTOR WAS PREVLY SPOTTED KISSG THE MAGO ACTOR, IAN MCKELLEN!

I'm not sure, however, that the majory of moviegoers necsarily regnize the gay love affair, d as is, but I do thk they'd notice s absence. The late, great Vo Rso (The Celluloid Closet) would probably agree wh this assertn, seeg as he found the kds of d gay relatnships rmg so many mastream films over the s. " Sure, they're officially talkg about the whole mutant thg, but the language also transfers perfectly to what two closeted mal  the 1960s might say to each other as they experienced the gaydar pg of their liv.

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

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