The transgender movement has “completely overshadowed” the campaign for gay rights, actor Rupert Everett has said, as he criticised “today’s New Puritanism”.
Everett, 61, said he feels like “the wrong type of queen” and that the gay community has “completely lost our profile”. He cited Russia’s banning of gay marriage and said “nobody was up in arms about anything”.
Speaking to The Times Magazine, Everett added that “the gay movement has been completely overshadowed by the trans movement”.
Everett first found fame playing a gay public school pupil in 1984 drama Another Country, while his other roles include My Best Friend’s Wedding and Shakespeare In Love.