Sir Ian McKellen regrets not g out as gay to his dad

IS IAN MCKELLEN GAY? RELATNSHIP WH PATRICK STEWART, WHO IS THE HBAND
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IS IAN MCKELLEN GAY? RELATNSHIP WH PATRICK STEWART, WHO IS THE HBAND

“(Hollywood) only recently disvered that there were black people the world. Hollywood has mistreated women every possible way throughout s history. Gay men don’t exist,” Ian McKellen said. | Hollywood * gay ian mckellen *

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

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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.

IAN MCKELLEN REVEALS HE NEVER GOT TO TELL HIS PARENTS HE WAS GAY

Sir Ian McKellen has fend straight actors playg gay rol at the 25th anniversary of harrowg Holot film Bent. * gay ian mckellen *

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. Ian McKellan is not only a cultural in but also a gay in, havg lived openly as a gay man sce 1988, pavg the way for other gay entertaers who were still the closet.

(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.

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

(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. (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.