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Contents:

• SIR IAN MCKELLEN ON HOLLYWOOD’S LGBTQ INCLN PROBLEM: ‘GAY MEN DON’T EXIST’
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY IMPROVED HIS LIFE AND WORK
• TV TONIGHT: SIR IAN MCKELLEN REFLECTS ON GAY KISS AND X-MEN’S ORIGS
• 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 SAYS G OUT AS GAY MA HIS WORK BETTER
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN LLS ON GAY MUNY TO ‘BE ALLI’ WH TRANS PEOPLE
• HALF OF HOLLYWOOD IS GAY, SAYS IAN MCKELLAN, WHO WAS NIED ROL BEE OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN
• QUEER PEOPLE AREN'T A MONOLH, AND SIR IAN MCKELLEN'S THOUGHTS ON 'PLAYG GAY' ARE LACKG CONTEXT
• IAN MCKELLEN FENDS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL
• IAN MCKELLEN DON'T THK GAY ROL SHOULD BE RERVED FOR GAY ACTORS: 'WE'RE PRETENDG'

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

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.

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

”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.

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

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.

“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 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.

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 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. “Gay men don’t exist, ” he said.

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

“I said, “I don’t have a fay, I’m gay. (Dave Bet/WireImage)Sir Ian McKellen has said g out as gay improved both his relatnships and his work as he "wasn't hidg anymore" X-Men star opened up about his sexualy 1988, when he was his 40s. (Joel C Ryan/Invisn/AP)The Lord Of The Rgs actor said when he was younger there was the worry that if he had said he was gay he “uld have risked beg prosecuted” he said now ’s out the open he never stops talkg about , jokg that he’s "makg up for lost time" Ian McKellen is on Jonathan Ross's show.

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

(Keh Mayhew / SOPA Imag/Sipa USA)Sir Ian first nfirmed his sexualy durg a chat on the rad 33 years 2018 he celebrated the 30th anniversary of that moment by tweetg: “I’ve never met a gay person who regretted g out – cludg more: Lord Of The Rgs and The Hobb st members lnch mpaign to buy Tolkien's home"Life at last begs to make sense, when you are open and hont. I’ve never met a gay person who regretted g out – cludg myself.

— Ian McKellen (@IanMcKellen) January 27, 2018"Today is the 30th anniversary of the BBC rad discsn when I publilly said I was gay. McKellen also starred the televisn edy Vic (2013–16), which he and Derek Jabi played a snipg but ultimately lovg gay uple. McKellen, who was homosexual, was a noted gay rights activist.

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

Reflectg on growg up Lanshire durg the send world war, he go on to ver subjects such as his part the first gay kiss on Brish TV and why his X-Men films are bted to the civil rights movement. McKellen kept his sexualy secret — only g out as gay at the age of 49 bee he wanted to advote for the LGBTQ muny. "I didn't really know who I was — a closeted gay, " McKellen, the 80-year-old star of the new film The Good Liar, tells thor Gary O'Connor, while reflectg on his time at Cambridge Universy.

"I enjoyed disguisg myself as a closeted gay boy. But he didn't discs the fact publicly bee, for most of his life, homosexualy was illegal or crimalized England. (The Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 was the first gay law reform bill to pass centuri, but the crimalizatn of homosexualy ntued the U.

Beyond fear of the law, O'Connor explas that McKellen also worried that gog public as a gay man would negatively impact his reer.

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

's Sectn 28 legislatn, which was created "to make illegal for lol thori to 'promote homosexualy' or give money or assistance to anybody who did. "When [Peregre] said somethg particularly nasty about gay people, I said I'm one of them myself, " McKellen told The New York Tim 2015, jt after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage the U. Nelly Supports Lil Nas X After Rapper Came Out as Gay: 'I Compliment Him on His Courage'.

McKellen's openns about his inty as a gay man has not only propelled his advocy, but also his reer. 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. 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?

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

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. 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.

IAN MCKELLEN FENDS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL

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. I feel we’re gettg more galvanised, and I n speak to my niece and nephew and my godson, who are so small, about beg gay a way I never imaged my lifetime now.

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

” McKellen replied, “No, I didn’t talk about beg gay. ”McKellen then went on to say, “The ia that he uldn’t have ped wh the fact that his son was gay is nceivable to me, even though I’m not aware that he had any gay iends or that he’d ever thought about or that had any impact on his life.

Then also addg a send qutn over whether only gay actors should play gay characters. “Is the argument that a straight man nnot play a gay part, and if so do that mean I n’t play straight parts and I’m not allowed to explore the fascatg subject of heterosexualy Macbeth? ”Later the terview, he was asked about the lack of Amy Award-wng gay actors, to which the 82-year-old rpond: “There aren’t very many of them, I mean openly gay.