Olly Alexander and Sir Ian McKellen talk about the importance of being trans allies in a new interview. In light of LGBTQ+ History Month, the two stars opened up about LGBTQ+ issues, with McKellen expressing his disappointment in how trans people are treated within the community. “I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgender people in very much same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay,” he says. “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 case for us, so I think we should be allies really.” McKellen also discussed the differences