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Sir Ian McKellen calls on gay community to ‘be allies’ with trans people

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Sir Ian McKellen has called on the gay community to publicly support trans people.The Lord of the Rings actor took part in a conversation with Olly Alexander, hosted by TikTok, to mark LGBTQ+ History Month.In the chat, the 81-year-old compared the hardships faced by many in the trans community to what the gay community lived through when he was younger.He told the It’s A Sin actor: ‘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.‘The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are queer.

I quite like being queer actually.‘The problems that transgender people have with the law are not dissimilar from what used to be the.

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