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Contents:

• IS GANDALF GAY? 'HOBB' STAR IAN MCKELLAN DE-SPELLS THE RUMORS
• SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'
• IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?
• IAN MCKELLEN : L'TERPRèTE GANDALF T GAY... ET L X-MEN SSI ?
• GANDALF/MAGO ACTOR IAN MCKELLEN: “ALL GAY MEN SHOULD BE TRANS ALLI"
• GANDALF THE GAY? IT’S POSSIBLE, SAYS MCKELLEN
• WAS GANDALF THE GREY GANDALF THE GAY?
• IS GANDALF GAY? EXPLORG THE WIZARD’S SEXUALY
• JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
• IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?

IS GANDALF GAY? 'HOBB' STAR IAN MCKELLAN DE-SPELLS THE RUMORS

'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.

‘They’ve ma so many social advanc, wh women at the top ernment for a long time, and they got rid of their gay laws long before . ’McKellen has been a high-profile mpaigner for gay rights sce he me out, at 49, durg a BBC rad terview. He was the vanguard of openly gay artists and November 1990, Margaret Thatcher remend him for a knighthood.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN: 'COMG OUT AS GAY WAS THE BT THG I EVER DID'

‘In the Fifti and Sixti, the life of a gay man was a secret.

Homosexualy was illegal, so you didn’t draw attentn to yourself. But g out is the bt thg I ever did and I’ve never met a gay person who didn’t thk the same. ‘Even now there are young actors who want reers as romantic leadg men and the bt thg is not to reveal you’re gay.

’But spe of all the offers, he has never been tempted to move there and has lived the same Victorian hoe Limehoe, London’s East End, for 30 year, apart om ntug wh the Hobb saga and a new X-Men film, McKellen -stars wh Derek Jabi Vic, a TV edy seri about a bickerg gay uple sharg a flat London — the first time they have acted together sce spe a long reer filled wh aclas, McKellen’s greatt thrill was appearg Coronatn Street 2005. Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf the Grey "The Hobb: Dolatn of Smg, " discs whether the wizard may or may not be gay, this excerpt om a nversatn wh WSJ's Barbara Chai.

IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?

Meanwhile, openly gay poet WH Aun, once said: “No fictn I have read the last five years has given me more joy.

‘Who’s to say Gandalf isn’t gay? When McKellen filmed the movi he was the only openly gay st member – but over the past two s more of the actors have e out cludg The Hobb stars Lee Pace (Elven Kg Thranduil) and Le Evans (Bard the Bowman). In an terview wh The Tim he said: “When I beme Gandalf, I thk I was the only gay member of the st.

IAN MCKELLEN : L'TERPRèTE GANDALF T GAY... ET L X-MEN SSI ?

“Now there are two gay dwarfs. There’s a gay elf.

There are six openly gay actors. Who’s to say that Gandalf isn’t gay anyway?

GANDALF/MAGO ACTOR IAN MCKELLEN: “ALL GAY MEN SHOULD BE TRANS ALLI"

There was also the hugely popular LiveJournal satiril fanfictn The Very Secret Diari om 2001-2003 which clud several gay relatnships.? Although is not yet clear how much LGBTQ+ reprentatn the new seri will have, if any, early reviews dite elf Elrond, played by Robert Aramayo, may be gay. BUZZ – Dans une terview se Buzzfeed, le édien anglais Ian McKellen, 74 ans, ouvertement gay puis longu anné, évoque le sens ché la saga "X-Men".

GANDALF THE GAY? IT’S POSSIBLE, SAYS MCKELLEN

En 1988, le édien anglais révéla son homosexualé publiquement lors d'une terview acrdée à la BBC. Avant venir, fil s anné, un fervent défensr la munté gay, pot -fonr le lobby Stonewall, spiré par l émt survenu dans le quartier Greenwich Village, à New York, en 1969.

WAS GANDALF THE GREY GANDALF THE GAY?

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IS GANDALF GAY? EXPLORG THE WIZARD’S SEXUALY

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Brish actor Sir Ian McKellen was born a world where was illegal to be gay.

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JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL

“I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgenr people very much the same terms as people ed to talk about your mon or garn gay. "McKellen explas that the vrl directed towards trans people nowadays is jt like the hatred that gay people received.

While gay people are more accepted than they ed to be, trans people are often treated harshly. Years later, Ellt Page would e out as gay before g out as transgenr last year.

IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?

'”And then they me out [as gay] years later and sudnly you uldn’t stop them talkg. Tolke, gave no clu, but Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf the seri of Middle Earth films, was a teasg mood when he was terviewed for The Tim’ actor, who “me out” 1988 at the age of 49, told his terviewer, Stephanie Marsh, that if Dumbledore was gay, Gandalf uld be too.

He said: “Who’s to say that Gandalf isn’t gay? SIR IAN MCKELLEN feels sure he has more mon wh LORD OF THE RINGS wizard GANDALF than simply playg him on the big screen - he also thks the fantasy in is gay. Very few people knew of Ian's homosexualy; he saw no reason to go public, nor had he told his fay.

In 1988, Ian publicly me out of the closet on the BBC Rad 4 program, while discsg Margaret Thatcher's "Sectn 28" legislatn, which ma the promotn of homosexualy as a fay relatnship by lol thori an offense.