Talented actor Ian McKellen has been a high-profile mpaigner for gay rights sce he me out, at 49, durg a BBC rad terview.
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- 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. List of characters who intify as gay or lbian (attracted to someone of the same genr).
The story, which Oliveria sets the time ame of the earlit X-Men ics, follows a young Iceman/Bobby Drake as he begs to velop Gay Feelgs™ and simultaneoly feels the prsure to closet himself. Among the CCA’s l were bans on pictns of “sex perversn” and “sexual abnormali” — a pole way of sayg “don’t show anythg gay. Panels om X-Men #14 (Marvel won’t let me show you the new panels)One of the beti of “Early Thaw” is the way s creators go about rentextualizg the Co-era “nothg gay” ics wh a character (Iceman) who nonilly me out as gay 2015.
SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'
While not explic dog so, Oliveira sts Mago the role of the gay elr, someone who both directly affirms Bobby (and rears) speech and directly affirms him as a symbol of survivorship.
The reason I say “role” of gay elr is bee no Marvel story (to my knowledge) has ma Mago explicly gay, though often feels heavily implied that his relatnship wh Profsor X isn’t strictly platonic. '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.