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• IS GANDALF GAY? 'HOBB' STAR IAN MCKELLAN DE-SPELLS THE RUMORS
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'
• THE-LUDWIG/GANDALF-THE-GAY
• PURCHASE ADVICE HISTORY FOR U/_GANDALF-THE-GAY
• IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?
• GANDALF THE GAY? IT’S POSSIBLE, SAYS MCKELLEN
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'
• GANDALF_THE_GAY

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

Meanwhile, openly gay poet WH Aun, once said: “No fictn I have read the last five years has given me more joy. ‘Who’s to say Gandalf isn’t gay? When McKellen filmed the movi he was the only openly gay st member – but over the past two s more of the actors have e out cludg The Hobb stars Lee Pace (Elven Kg Thranduil) and Le Evans (Bard the Bowman).

In an terview wh The Tim he said: “When I beme Gandalf, I thk I was the only gay member of the st. “Now there are two gay dwarfs.

There’s a gay elf. There are six openly gay actors. Who’s to say that Gandalf isn’t gay anyway?

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

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Although is not yet clear how much LGBTQ+ reprentatn the new seri will have, if any, early reviews dite elf Elrond, played by Robert Aramayo, may be gay. '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.

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’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.

But g out is the bt thg I ever did and I’ve never met a gay person who didn’t thk the same.

IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?

‘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.

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GANDALF THE GAY? IT’S POSSIBLE, SAYS MCKELLEN

u/_Gandalf-The-Gay has helped 1 others:. u/_Gandalf-The-Gay has been helped 0 tim:. Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf the Grey "The Hobb: Dolatn of Smg, " discs whether the wizard may or may not be gay, this excerpt om a nversatn wh WSJ's Barbara Chai.

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

Tolke, gave no clu, but Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf the seri of Middle Earth films, was a teasg mood when he was terviewed for The Tim’ actor, who “me out” 1988 at the age of 49, told his terviewer, Stephanie Marsh, that if Dumbledore was gay, Gandalf uld be too.

He said: “Who’s to say that Gandalf isn’t gay? Lord of the Rgs is gay wh a pal "G"-for-Gandalf, and anyone who ntts that is clearly not readg the same books or watchg the same films that we are. And durg said discsn, he implied that the same uld also be te of his own character, Gandalf: "Now there are two gay dwarfs.

So between all that and Legolas' bleached gay crisis hair, 's easy to see why queer fans love Lord of the Rgs so much. However, that hasn't stopped thirsty gays om suggtg that Elrond, the elf played by Robert Aramayo, might be gay still.

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Pl, there's fely some Gay Bt Friend™ vib every time Elrond chats to Galadriel.