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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.

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

’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.

‘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.

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IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?

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‘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. “Now there are two gay dwarfs.

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

There’s a gay elf. There are six openly gay actors.

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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". 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.

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

A la f s anné 1980, il s'éta fermement opposé à la "Sectn 28", un amenment du gouvernement Thatcher terdisant la "promotn l'homosexualé" par l torés lol, ou se s él.

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GANDALF THE GAY? IT’S POSSIBLE, SAYS MCKELLEN

J'ai été nonté à cette divisn se du mouvement s dros s homosexuels. C't même une nécsé puisque d'après lui, beup d'homosexuels lisent l ics X-Men "parce qu'ils se sentent un p me s mutants". Sir Ian McKellen, known for the rol of Gandalf and Mago, has spoken out on members of the gay muny that opprs trans people.

WAS GANDALF THE GREY GANDALF THE GAY?

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

Born 1939, wasn’t until the actor was 28-years-old that homosexualy was fally crimalised the Uned Kgdom. Even wh the gay muny, there are people who refe to accept others for who they are. Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out on Ian McKellen says all gay men should support trans peopleIn a Tiktok wh It’s a S star Olly Alexanr, McKellen clared that gay men ally wh the trans muny.

“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.

IS GANDALF GAY? EXPLORG THE WIZARD’S SEXUALY

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.

'”And then they me out [as gay] years later and sudnly you uldn’t stop them talkg.

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

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. He has been active the gay rights movement ever ris Limehoe, where he has also lived wh his former long-time partner Sean Mathias.

But is Gandalf gay?

IS GANDALF, FROM 'THE HOBB' GAY?

Based on the books alone, people n safely assume that Gandalf is not gay.

However, ’s also possible that Tolkien simply left out any sexual implitns sce was emed appropriate, pecially homosexualy, which was still illegal the U. The actor prefers to keep the qutn open-end and even stated an terview, “Who’s to say Gandalf isn’t gay?

” It’s important to note that McKellen himself intifi as gay and has been out sce 1988. No, Gandalf is not gay, but he may be nsired asexual.