Sir Ian McKellan
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Sir Patrick Stewart : one of the queer community’s greatest allies: dies aged 86
As we become more immersed in our queer sensibility and life, we quickly learn not just about our own community but about who our allies are, too. This week we lost one of our finest. Many talk the talk, but very few walk the walk so well as the legendary British actor Sir Patrick Stewart,…
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‘The Show People Podcast’ next Special Guest will be the legendary actor/activist SIR IAN MCKELLAN (‘you can call me Serena’)
Last September, when we filmed a Zoom interview with multi-award-winning Theatre Director, Acting Coach and Artist ANDREW KEATES in London he talked about his latest project QUEER THEATRE. It has a very simple mission which we really applaud: TO TELL AUTHENTIC LGBTQIA + STORIES WITHOUT SHAME. He promised that among his classes, workshops etc, there…
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Sir Ian McKellan to star in a one-night-only production of ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’ with an all-trans and non-binary cast
Legendary queer Brit actor Sir Ian McKellan celebrated his 86th Birthday this week by announcing that he will take the stage this summer in a one-night-only production of Twelfth Night featuring an all-trans and nonbinary cast. He will join the innovative theatre group Trans What You Will for a staged reading of Shakespeare’s gender-fluid comedy on…
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We can never get enough of IAN MCKELLAN unquestionably the greatest living queer actor (and one of our finest activists}
Sir Ian McKellan (or Serena as Stephen Fry dubbed him) is unquestionably the greatest living queer actor. And one of the best and most successful activists the LGBTQ+ community has ever enjoyed. He may have been 47 years old when he ‘came out‘ publicly but what he has managed to squeeze into his…
