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Ian McKellen’s viral TikTok moment with Olly Alexander was a rallying cry for all LGBTQ people

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Sir Ian McKellen has spent his life off-screen pressing ahead for LGBTQ rights. Earlier this year, he shared his wish for the future of gay people: that they stand alongside transgender people in solidarity.In a TikTok chat with Olly Alexander, promoting Alexander’s new series It’s a Sin, McKellen noted how far the queer community had come, and the striking parallels between the discussion of transgender people in the present day, and the discussion of gay men at the height of the AIDS crisis.“I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgender people in very much the same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay,” McKellen told Alexander.“The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are.

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