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That time 79-year-old Ian McKellen partied at a Berlin sex club until 4 AM

That time 79-year-old Ian McKellen partied at a Berlin sex club until 4 AM

Sir Ian McKellen

The man we all aspire to be when we’re older, Sir Ian McKellen, turns 80–80!–today and to celebrate, some of his closest friends are sharing their fondest memories of the beloved Hollywood icon.

Bill Condon, who directed the Oscar-winning film Gods and Monsters starring McKellen, share a particularly naughty story with The Guardian this week.

Condon described McKellen as a “young spirit,” as evidenced by the time they went to a Berlin sex club together.

“Last year, when we wrapped The Good Liar in Berlin, we went to a nasty club to celebrate,” Condon says. “It was a really, really intense sex club but also an art installation in a factory.”

“I left them there at 4am, Ian barely dressed. It was wonderful.”

Dame Judy Dench, who has known McKellen since they first worked together in 1965, was also interviewed by The Guardian. 

When told about last year’s trip to the sex club, she replied, “He went to sex clubs in Berlin with people? Oh dash, I’ve missed out!”

Dench described McKellen as ” a very good friend to me,” adding, “I know that if I rang he would always make time to see me or be around or to be there with advice.”

“He’s like no other animal I know. A rare beast.”

And then there’s Patrick Stewart, with whom McKellen has enjoyed a years-long bromance.

The pair first met in 1977 but didn’t become close friends until 2002 when they both worked on X-Men.

“I wasn’t absolutely ready to just fall into his arms,” Stewart recalls. “But we had adjoining luxury trailers and took to hanging out.”

“We became very good friends. As well as X-Men, we have worked together a lot on stage. Sometimes I feel we’re enjoying it too much and the audience don’t quite understand why we’re having so much fun.”

Scroll down for some of our most favorite pics from Sir Ian’s Instagram page…

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Did somebody say it’s national dog day?

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An important book for the times, from Sally Kohn.

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Self-captioned. #shakespearelives #china #greatwall @britishcouncil @britishfilminstitute

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The world needs more kitten photos.

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Having a cuppa in #istanbul

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Older Gay Men Look Back at Their Past Loves and Relationships: WATCH

Older Gay Men Look Back at Their Past Loves and Relationships: WATCH

We’ve seen them trying to interpret young gay slang, reacting to Troye Sivan videos, playing Card Against Humanity, trying to identify famous gays, playing Never Have I Ever, identifying pop star divas, responding to new song lyrics, and clapping back at mean comments.

Now, in one of the best and most nostalgic and sad yet heartwarming segments yet, Robert E. Reeves, Michael Peterson, Jessay Martin, and Bill Lyons look back on some of their past loves and relationships

The post Older Gay Men Look Back at Their Past Loves and Relationships: WATCH appeared first on Towleroad Gay News.


Older Gay Men Look Back at Their Past Loves and Relationships: WATCH

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‘The OA’s’ Ian Alexander is making it safer for trans teens to come out & parents to accept them

‘The OA’s’ Ian Alexander is making it safer for trans teens to come out & parents to accept them

Name: Ian Alexander, 18

Who He Is: Actor

How He’s Contributed: Alexander, assigned female at birth, is the biracial son of a white father and a Vietnamese immigrant mother. Raised in the Mormon faith, he often moved around from city to city as a child due to his father’s military job. Regardless of where he lived at the time, however, Alexander always found solace in theatre and chorus. Alexander would perform in his living room, putting on skits and musical acts for friends and family much to their amusement.

But when he came out as transgender at age 13 in 2014, Alexander ran into tension at home with his religious family.

Alexander found his world forever changed in 2016. That year he answered an open call for transgender actors and landed the role of Buck Vu on the Netflix sci-fi series The OA. Though he’d never acted on screen before, Alexander earned wide praise for his performance as a closeted, transgender teen whose only recourse is to buy hormones from a local drug dealer. Alexander returned for the second season of the show this year, in which he both reprised his role of Buck and took on the role of a cisgender teen. The creators of the show, Zal Batmanglij, and Brit Marling, have acknowledged that Alexander’s authentic performances and life experience helped them create an accurate portrait of a mixed-race transgender character.

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— IAN (@ianaIexander) May 9, 2016

Why We’re Proud: Alexander has used his platform to advocate for trans causes, including a 2016 incident in which he made an epic clap back at a group of transphobes on the UCLA campus that got more than 26,000 likes on Twitter.

Alexander did a very courageous thing by publicly coming out when he took on his first acting role, and his parents eventually came around to support him. His OA role has made Alexander a role model and activist for transgender teens everywhere. As he wrote in a personal essay for The Huffington Post:

It was on “The OA” that I heard my mother refer to me by my correct name and pronouns for the first time, in response to everyone around her doing the same. Before then, she was much more comfortable calling me by my given name, and exclusively used feminine pronouns for me; I remember feeling butterflies of excitement every time she referred to me as “he” while talking to the cast and crew. This was a pivotal moment in my life when I realized that I could be accepted for who I am…

Not only is authentic representation important for actors, but for audiences as well: If I had seen more young trans boys like myself in mainstream media while I was coming to terms with my gender identity, I could have accepted myself for who I was a lot sooner. In fact, I’m proud and humbled to say that since appearing in “The OA,” many people have told me that I gave them the courage to come out as transgender to their family and peers.

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