Contents:
- IAN MCKELLEN: 'X-MEN WAS A GAY MAN’S LIGHT, BEE WAS FULL OF THE MOST AMAZG DIVAS'
- MCKELLEN WANTS GAY SEX SCENE
- THE GAY LEFT BE MAGO
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. Twentieth Century FoxIf the subtextual homoerotic love affair between Mago (Michael Fassbenr) and Profsor X (Jam McAvoy) the X-Men saga wasn't tablished non before X-Men: First Class, is now.
MCKELLEN WANTS GAY SEX SCENE
But cir 2011, cultural divisns over race have been supplanted the popular Amerin nscns by a bate over gay rights, and the latt X-Men film has updated Profsor X and Mago's adversarial relatnship thly. But the film n also be easily read as a gay pri allegory, as well as a story of te love gone horribly wrong. Edward's Universy At, Texas, who ntributed a chapter lled "Makg Gay Sense of the X-Men" to the textbook Unverg Hidn Rhetorics: Social Issu Disguise eded by Barry S.
THE GAY LEFT BE MAGO
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