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- SIR IAN MCKELLEN ON HOLLYWOOD’S LGBTQ INCLN PROBLEM: ‘GAY MEN DON’T EXIST’
- SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY MA HIS WORK BETTER
- IS IAN MCKELLEN GAY? RELATNSHIP WH PATRICK STEWART, WHO IS THE HBAND
- IAN MCKELLEN REVEALS HE NEVER GOT TO TELL HIS PARENTS HE WAS GAY
- SIR IAN MCKELLEN LLS ON GAY MUNY TO ‘BE ALLI’ WH TRANS PEOPLE
- TV TONIGHT: SIR IAN MCKELLEN REFLECTS ON GAY KISS AND X-MEN’S ORIGS
SIR IAN MCKELLEN ON HOLLYWOOD’S LGBTQ INCLN PROBLEM: ‘GAY MEN DON’T EXIST’
Sir Ian McKellen, famo for his rol Lord of the Rgs and the X-Men anchise, is openly gay, has been an outspoken advote for LGBTQ rights and has spoken ndidly about his sexualy for the last 30 years. * ian mckellen gay *
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. 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.
SIR IAN MCKELLEN SAYS G OUT AS GAY MA HIS WORK BETTER
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“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. 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.
Sir Ian McKellen on Hollywood’s LGBTQ Incln Problem: ‘Gay Men Don’t Exist’.
IS IAN MCKELLEN GAY? RELATNSHIP WH PATRICK STEWART, WHO IS THE HBAND
Legendary Brish actor Ian McKellen was born May 25, 1939. Look back at his inic reer theater, blockbter films cludg Lord of the Rgs and X-Men, and work as an activist for gay rights" emprop="scriptn * ian mckellen gay *
Sir Ian McKellen, famo for his rol Lord of the Rgs and the X-Men anchise, is openly gay, has been an outspoken advote for LGBTQ rights and has spoken ndidly about his sexualy for the…. Sir Ian McKellen, famo for his rol Lord of the Rgs and the X-Men anchise, is openly gay, has been an outspoken advote for LGBTQ rights and has spoken ndidly about his sexualy for the last 30 years. The Brish actor was recently asked about his thoughts on the fact that Dumbledore, a character he is often mistaken for havg played the Harry Potter anchise, will not be directly referred to as gay the upg sp-off film Fantastic Beasts: The Crim of Grlwald.
“Gay men don’t exist, ” he said.
IAN MCKELLEN REVEALS HE NEVER GOT TO TELL HIS PARENTS HE WAS GAY
“Gods and Monsters, I thk, was the begng of Hollywood admtg that there were gay people knockg around, even though half of Hollywood is gay. The actor also discsed the fact that he was once nied a role due to the fact that he was gay.
“I said, “I don’t have a fay, I’m gay. McKellen kept his sexualy secret — only g out as gay at the age of 49 bee he wanted to advote for the LGBTQ muny.
SIR IAN MCKELLEN LLS ON GAY MUNY TO ‘BE ALLI’ WH TRANS PEOPLE
"I didn't really know who I was — a closeted gay, " McKellen, the 80-year-old star of the new film The Good Liar, tells thor Gary O'Connor, while reflectg on his time at Cambridge Universy. "I enjoyed disguisg myself as a closeted gay boy.
But he didn't discs the fact publicly bee, for most of his life, homosexualy was illegal or crimalized England. (The Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 was the first gay law reform bill to pass centuri, but the crimalizatn of homosexualy ntued the U. Beyond fear of the law, O'Connor explas that McKellen also worried that gog public as a gay man would negatively impact his reer.
's Sectn 28 legislatn, which was created "to make illegal for lol thori to 'promote homosexualy' or give money or assistance to anybody who did. "When [Peregre] said somethg particularly nasty about gay people, I said I'm one of them myself, " McKellen told The New York Tim 2015, jt after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage the U.
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McKellen's openns about his inty as a gay man has not only propelled his advocy, but also his reer. Sir Ian said ‘everythg was better’ once he me out (Picture: Brian J Rchie/Hotsce/Shutterstock)Sir Ian McKellen has said his work improved after he me out as gay, as ma ‘everythg better’.
MORE: Sir Ian McKellen has heartfelt rponse to JoJo Siwa g out as gay: ‘She serv praise and empathy’. 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. The characters had a love scene the 1970 productn, which was filmed to air on the BBC and beme the first gay kiss to air on Brish televisn.