Sir Ian McKellen | Activism | Gay Rights | Edutn | The Arts

Contents:

• SIR IAN MCKELLEN ON HOLLYWOOD’S LGBTQ INCLN PROBLEM: ‘GAY MEN DON’T EXIST’
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN LLS ON GAY MUNY TO ‘BE ALLI’ WH TRANS PEOPLE
• THE BIG QUTNS CELEBRAT PRI AT 50 WH SIR IAN MCKELLEN: ‘I WISH I’D BEEN TOLD WAS IMPORTANT TO RE ABOUT BEG GAY’
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN PENS PROTT OVER RSIAN GAY LAW
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY IMPROVED HIS LIFE AND WORK
• IAN MCKELLEN FENDS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN REGRETS NOT G OUT AS GAY TO HIS DAD: ‘THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO JUDGEMENT’
• IAN MCKELLEN DON'T THK GAY ROL SHOULD BE RERVED FOR GAY ACTORS: 'WE'RE PRETENDG'
• QUEER PEOPLE AREN'T A MONOLH, AND SIR IAN MCKELLEN'S THOUGHTS ON 'PLAYG GAY' ARE LACKG CONTEXT
• TV TONIGHT: SIR IAN MCKELLEN REFLECTS ON GAY KISS AND X-MEN’S ORIGS
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY MA HIS WORK BETTER
• IAN MCKELLEN SAYS HIS WORK GOT BETTER AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY

SIR IAN MCKELLEN ON HOLLYWOOD’S LGBTQ INCLN PROBLEM: ‘GAY MEN DON’T EXIST’

Sir Ian McKellen on Hollywood’s LGBTQ Incln Problem: ‘Gay Men Don’t Exist’. Sir Ian McKellen, famo for his rol Lord of the Rgs and the X-Men anchise, is openly gay, has been an outspoken advote for LGBTQ rights and has spoken ndidly about his sexualy for the…. Sir Ian McKellen, famo for his rol Lord of the Rgs and the X-Men anchise, is openly gay, has been an outspoken advote for LGBTQ rights and has spoken ndidly about his sexualy for the last 30 years.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN LLS ON GAY MUNY TO ‘BE ALLI’ WH TRANS PEOPLE

The Brish actor was recently asked about his thoughts on the fact that Dumbledore, a character he is often mistaken for havg played the Harry Potter anchise, will not be directly referred to as gay the upg sp-off film Fantastic Beasts: The Crim of Grlwald. “Gods and Monsters, I thk, was the begng of Hollywood admtg that there were gay people knockg around, even though half of Hollywood is gay.

THE BIG QUTNS CELEBRAT PRI AT 50 WH SIR IAN MCKELLEN: ‘I WISH I’D BEEN TOLD WAS IMPORTANT TO RE ABOUT BEG GAY’

The actor also discsed the fact that he was once nied a role due to the fact that he was gay.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN PENS PROTT OVER RSIAN GAY LAW

Sir Ian McKellen CH, CBE, AKA Gandalf, AKA Mago, AKA six-time Olivier Award wner and all-round Brish stutn, has posted a celebratory tweet markg the 30th anniversary of g out as Saturday morng, Sir Ian, 78, tweeted: “I’ve never met a gay person who regretted g out – cludg myself. Today is the 30th anniversary of the BBC rad discsn when I publilly [sic] said I was gay.

”I’ve never met a gay person who regretted g out – cludg myself. Today is the 30th anniversary of the BBC rad discsn when I publilly said I was gay.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY IMPROVED HIS LIFE AND WORK

twterThe acclaimed Brish actor and LGBTQ+ activist first publicly said he was gay on 27 January 1988 durg a BBC Rad 3 discsn on the ntroversial Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Bill 1988 that prevented lol thori om “tentnally promot[g] homosexualy or publish[g] material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" whether he would like to see Sectn 28 abolished, Sir Ian replied: “I certaly would. It’s offensive to anyone who is - like myself - homosexual, apart om the whole bs of what n and nnot be tght to children. ”Others tweeted about their support for LGBTQ+ fay one person uldn't rist uploadg a clip of Gandalf dog a celebratory year, the actor reflected on his youth as a gay man livg secrecy a short film that featured an exhibn on queer Brish art at London’s Tate Bra.

IAN MCKELLEN FENDS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL

“There was no qutn of beg out of the closet, the sense of beg hont about one’s sexualy on all ocsns bee you would ve the police to arrt you, ” he said, referrg to a time before the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967.

“Gay people, homosexuals, nducted their liv as secretly as possible. It might've been taken down or had s privacy settgs Ian said that one of the reasons he now speaks out about beg gay is so that today’s young people n fully enjoy their sexualy.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN REGRETS NOT G OUT AS GAY TO HIS DAD: ‘THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO JUDGEMENT’

London Gay Pri 1993Wh former Amerin soldiers Clifford Krapf and Perry Watks. New York Gay Pri (Stonewall): Angela Mason, Stephen Fry, Mart Sherman, Ian McKellen, Mig Kimpton.

1994South Ai Gay Pri March; the UK ntgent: Greg Doran, Antony Sher, Ian McKellen, Sean Mathias, Johannberg (home ma banner by Tony Sher & Ian).

IAN MCKELLEN DON'T THK GAY ROL SHOULD BE RERVED FOR GAY ACTORS: 'WE'RE PRETENDG'

1995Ian McKellen, Phumzile Mtetwa (General Secretary of ILGA), Print Nelson Manla, and the late gay rights lear Simon Tseko Nkoli at ANC Headquarters Johannburg, South Ai.

2 December 2000: Ian McKellen and Peter Jackson addrs a backyard gatherg of gay activists, Wellgton; Photo by Keh Stern.

Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen celebratg 10th anniversary of FFLAG (Friends and Fay of Lbians and Gays) Birmgham, wh Leicter Parents Betty, Kath, and Jenny.

QUEER PEOPLE AREN'T A MONOLH, AND SIR IAN MCKELLEN'S THOUGHTS ON 'PLAYG GAY' ARE LACKG CONTEXT

20 June 2008Wh lears of UK Lbian Gay Immigratn Group: Er Power, Barry O Leary, Ben Summerskill, Sebastian Roc. Sir Ian McKellen stated we should ‘all be alli’ wh the trans muny (Picture: Rex)Sir Ian McKellen has lled on the gay muny to publicly support trans people. In the chat, the 81-year-old pared the hardships faced by many the trans muny to what the gay muny lived through when he was younger.

TV TONIGHT: SIR IAN MCKELLEN REFLECTS ON GAY KISS AND X-MEN’S ORIGS

He told the It’s A S actor: ‘I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgenr people very much the same terms as people ed to talk about your mon or garn gay. ‘The mour was that was Ronald Reagan, the print of the Uned Stat who was famoly different to gay people, that his agents were puttg poison through the air ndng to gay clubs – talk about nspiracy theori.

‘My experience was so different om yours wh regard to sex and beg gay, ’ he add.

But away om the limelight, Sir Ian has been blazg trails for the LGBTQ+ muny as a loud and proment activist sce publicly g out as gay 1988 – though, his peers were generally aware of his sexualy much sooner. Outsi of his life showbs, Sir Ian relentlsly mpaigned agast Sectn 28, which prohibed the promotn of homosexualy lol thori, cludg schools, troduced by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative ernment 1988 om to 2000 England, Stland and Wal. We’d always known about Pri but thought wasn’t anythg to do wh , really, but when you e out whout dog anythg more you immediately make nnectns wh people who have been fightg for gay rights for years, and the people on there on the Pri march.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY MA HIS WORK BETTER

Well as as a gay person the late 80s London, there were plac you uld go to certaly meet other gay people, there was The Swan and clubs which I didn’t go to, but to see a para or a march…. Gay Pri monstratn at the Old Bailey, ocsn of the start of the prosecutn allegg blasphemo libel brought by Mary Whehoe agast the homosexual newspaper Gay News, London, UK, 4th July 1977 (Picture: Getty Imag)To beg wh durg that first Pri, there were very few people watchg, no barriers put up, jt people shoppg Oxford Street wonrg, ‘what that’s about?

When I was growg up was still such a taboo and I didn’t know what gay was until I was a teenager. Polics is about makg nnectns and iends and Pri is the gay day and if that leads to a party, terrific.

IAN MCKELLEN SAYS HIS WORK GOT BETTER AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY

The failure to stop sectn 28 meant that we were still fightg agast when beme law, then there were thgs like the ban on gay men the ary, legal discrimatn, you uld be sacked om a job for beg gay. That’s one way of lookg at , but another way of lookg at is that those are the people on that b are employe of that firm, and they’re probably gay employe. What would you tell your younger self as a gay man wh the wisdom you have today?

I wasn’t unhappy as a young gay man, even though I was as closeted as all my iends, but I did have iends, gay iends. I lived openly wh my partners; I wasn’t anywhere near as reprsed as others, but I thk I would have liked to have been told that was important to me and important to others that I should re more about beg gay. Vlence has been flicted on to gay people stutnally and by crazy dividuals, but we turned the other cheek and I thk we n be really proud of that.