Talented actor Ian McKellen has been a high-profile mpaigner for gay rights sce he me out, at 49, durg a BBC rad terview.
Contents:
- IAN MCKELLEN: 'X-MEN WAS A GAY MAN’S LIGHT, BEE WAS FULL OF THE MOST AMAZG DIVAS'
- 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'
“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.
’“Lo and behold she out as gay woman, and my God has she found her voice.
SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'
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