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• GAY ACTOR DEREK JABI REFLECTS ON G OUT TO HIS MOTHER S AGO
• SIR DEREK JABI: 'MUM SAID BEG GAY WAS A PHASE - I'VE BEEN WH MY PARTNER FOR 43 YEARS'
• LEGENDARY GAY THPIAN DEREK JABI WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG QUEER ROL
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN AND SIR DEREK JABI PLAY GAY UPLE VIC ITV EDY
• IAN MCKELLEN ON SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “TELLG PEOPLE THE TTH MT CONTUE” (Q&A)
• IAN MCKELLEN AND DEREK JABI A GAY PRI MARCH DEBUT
• IAN MCKELLEN, DEREK JABI TO PLAY GAY COUPLE ITV S ‘VIC’
• OH YOU SILLY THG, OF COURSE HE’S GAY
• A ‘VIC’ CIRCLE OF GAY STEREOTYP

GAY ACTOR DEREK JABI REFLECTS ON G OUT TO HIS MOTHER S AGO

Derek Jabi has opened up about the credible moment he me out as gay to his mother s ago.

Jabi, 82, told The Telegraph that he knew he was gay om an early age, and he eventually worked up the urage to tell his mother that he was attracted to men while he was a stunt Cambridge. “I knew I was gay very early on, although wasn’t lled gay back then, ” the acclaimed actor said. In that terview, the actor said his mother sisted that beg gay was jt a phase.

When I was young, I didn’t know what ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ meant. "The 'Breakg the Co' actor has known he was gay om a very young age, but never had any problems acceptg his told Gay Tim magaze: "I knew I was different.

SIR DEREK JABI: 'MUM SAID BEG GAY WAS A PHASE - I'VE BEEN WH MY PARTNER FOR 43 YEARS'

"And Derek remembered feelg "relief" when homosexualy was part crimalised relled: "I suppose like everybody I felt relief. In the s Vic (2013–16), he was one-half of a longtime gay uple.

LEGENDARY GAY THPIAN DEREK JABI WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG QUEER ROL

I knew I was gay very early on, although wasn’t lled gay back then. ”Even on gay rights, he has been quieter than some of his ntemporari. ’” Around the time of the drama’s airdate, Davi said he thought gay rol ought to be played by gay actors.

“I don’t thk you have to be gay to be gay. The legendary gay thpian, 82, is bt known for his classil rol as well as for playg the De of Wdsor  The Crown, the archbishop of Canterbury The Kg’s Speech and The Master Doctor Who. It’s a posn he shar wh many other long-tablished stars, cludg Stanley Tucci, a straight actor who’s played gay rol Supernova and The Devil Wears Prada.

“For so many years, gay men and women have had to hi their homosexualy showbs to get the rol they wanted – that’s the problem here, ” Tucci said an terview wh Attu. Unfortunately, the qutn of whether straight actors should play gay characters is likely to ntue while accs to film rol remas unequal across the board.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN AND SIR DEREK JABI PLAY GAY UPLE VIC ITV EDY

A 2020 GLAAD report found that although reprentatn of whe gay men is nstantly improvg major stud films, reprentatn of other queer people is dismal, and trans and non-bary characters were found to be non-existent major stud releas om 2019. Of urse, was nice to see a gay uple ont and centre and, for me, was great that was an olr uple too. © 2022 GCN (Gay Communy News).

When I ask him about gay marriage, for example, he says: “The word don’t mean anythg to me.

IAN MCKELLEN ON SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “TELLG PEOPLE THE TTH MT CONTUE” (Q&A)

But he always knew, pretty much, that he was gay, and he me out to his mother soon after graduatg. ” Liberal Tori are mted to phg through gay marriage, but do he have any sympathy wh Christians who object to ?

His view seems to be that, bee there is ltle difference law between a gay marriage and civil partnership, the latt ntroversi are a fs about nothg. He portrayed Ban as a tortured geni, but also a ld and llo gay predator.

IAN MCKELLEN AND DEREK JABI A GAY PRI MARCH DEBUT

“The fay thought was gog to be a gay exposé, so they wouldn’t give permissn.

Another of his great rol was that of Alan Turg, the Bletchley Park breaker who was prosecuted for his homosexualy 1952. The attu of the time was partly a reactn to the revelatns then emergg about the Cambridge spi, a number of whom were gay.

Beg gay beme associated wh beg unpatrtic. Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jabi are to star a edy as a gay uple who have lived together the same Covent Garn flat for nearly 50 years, ITV1 has s, Vic, will feature McKellen as Freddie, once a buddg actor, while Jabi will play Stuart, who was a barman when the pair first met.

IAN MCKELLEN, DEREK JABI TO PLAY GAY COUPLE ITV S ‘VIC’

Vic has been -created by award-wng playwright Mark 's soaps Coronatn Street and Emmerdale have both featured gay characters, but missng a show wh gay leads is relatively 2001 ITV1 broadst Bob & Rose, a drama wrten by Rsell T Davi and starrg Alan Davi as a gay man who starts a relatnship wh Lley Sharp. Ian McKellen and Derek Jabi, who -star as an elrly gay uple London on the PBS s Vic, are two of the grand marshals for New York Cy’s Pri para on Sunday.

The followg is THR’s eded nversatn wh the two actors, both gay and 76 years old, about the Supreme Court’s lg on gay marriage, agg Hollywood and flexg new profsnal mcl by starrg on a s: “You’re there as a joke mache. And we’ve lived through a time our untry where was illegal to be gay or have sex wh somebody you loved, nmned you as a crimal.

It’s excg bee when you say gay people should get married if they want to, you know you’re right. Jabi: I thk the olr generatn entertament, generally, gay or straight, is g to s own.

OH YOU SILLY THG, OF COURSE HE’S GAY

AdvertisementSKIP Kzlarich/The New York TimJune 26, 2015When Ian McKellen and Derek Jabi e sailg down Fifth Avenue nvertibl at the Gay Pri March on Sunday, they will not only be grand marshals at the annual event but also first-time on Thursday morng, the revered Brish actors, who appear together the PBS s “Vic, ” were wonrg what awaed them beyond an afternoon of wavg to fans and onlookers. “You may be for a very, very happy weekend, ” he a vis to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center the Wt Village, the two performers, who are both 76 and are gay, had e for a quick tn on New York’s Pri events and their signifince to the cy on a weekend followg the Supreme Court’s landmark lg on same-sex marriage. ”The two iends, who play a longtime gay uple on “Vic, ” first met as stunts at the Universy of Cambridge the 1950s, where they bond over their terts actg, their workg-class backgrounds and their sexualy.

“We knew we were both gay, ” Mr. Jabi said, “but we didn’t ll gay.

” Euphemisms like “mp” and “queer” were the norm, they explaed, at a time when homosexualy was still illegal men went on to illtr stage and screen reers, to play Richard III and Kg Lear, and to receive knighthoods — “We’re pretty much the same person, ” Mr.

A ‘VIC’ CIRCLE OF GAY STEREOTYP

McKellen their dtry forebears, who they said never acknowledged even to nfidants that they were gay or bisexual, Mr. McKellen did not e out publicly until 1988, at age 49, durg a rad broadst which he and the nservative journalist Peregre Worsthorne bated Bra’s so-lled Sectn 28 legislatn, which forba thori om “promotg homosexualy.

McKellen relled , “When he said somethg particularly nasty about gay people, I said I’m one of them myself.

Jabi said he told his mother he was gay, and her reactn was, “Oh, all boys go through this phase. Jabi said: “I never ma a pot of statg: I am gay.