Stately homo of England
Filmforce has a witty and thought-provoking interview with Ian McKellen in which he discusses everything from his party-going stamina to his outspoken-ness as a gay man:
“…gay people have been forced to be silent for so long that the rest mustn’t be too surprised if, given the chance, we speak perhaps at length about something that hasn’t been spoken about at length for far too long and still isn’t in certain areas of the world, like in this country and mine…In Florida, I was talking to a gay group in an appalling situation…there’s was…a boy at this reception who, at age 16, had told his friends he was gay at school and been expelled. Not allowed to have an education because he’d told the truth about himself. … To me those people are just reminding what I can easily forget. That it isn’t over. There’s a fight still going on.”
