Star of 'Shakespeare in Love': 'There's nothing worse than gay parents'

Telegraph UK ^ | 16 Sept 2012 | Staff

[max americana]

or gay “men”.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Rosie O'Donnell's 4-yr-old daughter dressed as a jihadist:

These children are used as props.

[scottjewell]

Oh, good lord, yes. Shameless exploitation.

[scottjewell]

Why on earth would anyone - gay or straight - dress a child in that manner?

[MacNaughton]

11 I have always found British gay men (all of whom I know from theatre) have more common sense than their American counterparts. You can actually have a conversation with one of them without wanting to throw up. With the exception of Ian McKellen, of course.

19 I regulate him to the label of "genre actor" because I've only seen him playing Magneto and Gandalf. The only "straight" role (har har) I've seen him play was James Whale, creator of the "Frankenstein" movie, so still geeky/genre-y, and, come to think of it, also gay, so he wasn't really acting so much.

and 2006's "The Da Vinci Code".

http://www.popeater.com/2009/11/02/ian-mckellen-bible-leviticus-1822/
Ian McKellen 'Proudly' Rips Leviticus 18:22 Out of All Bibles
by PopEater Staff
November 2, 2009

... In a Q&A with Details magazine, the openly gay 'Lord of the Rings' star admits to a habit of tearing out the Bible passage that condemns homosexuality -- Leviticus 18:22 -- every time he finds one in his hotel room. The passage: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." "I'm not proudly defacing the book," he asserts, "but it's a choice between removing that page and throwing away the whole Bible." McKellen says his actions have inspired others to do the same. "I got delivered a package of 40 of those pages that had been torn out by a married couple I know. They put them on a bit of string so that I could hang it up in the bathroom." ...

[Tallguy]

The star of the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love blazed a trail for gay actors when he came out as homosexual 20 years ago.

Name didn't ring a bell despite having seen "Shakespeare in Love". Turns out this guy had an uncredited role as Christopher Marlowe. Hardly a star at the time.

[scottjewell]

I saw the film too, and didn’t know who the heck this guy was.

[JerseyDvl]

He had a small part as Christopher Marlowe.

[miss marmelstein]

Ian McKellen was, for a long time, England’s premiere Shakespearean actor. His MacBeth with Judi Dench back in the ‘70s was mesmerizing. I’ve seen him in at least 10-15 classical productions, and over the years he has grown less and less hungry for greatest. The last time I enjoyed him was years ago as “Mr. Puff” in the silly Restoration play “The Critic.” I saw his Lear several years ago and disliked it.

[scottjewell]

Thanks for that. He was not the “star” as they claimed. Guess it doesn’t matter re his remarks on gay parenting, though...

[Future Snake Eater]

That’s funny that he just hits Leviticus and misses Romans. Oh well.

[Tanniker Smith]

I know he is, that’s what makes it funnier. At least, Patrick Stewart I’ve seen on TV in Hamlet (the David Tennant version) and on stage doing A Christmas Carol — but there were so many Trekkies in the audience, I’d almost have to discount that. (And considering I was watching Hamlet because Doctor Who was in it ...)