Ian McKellen explains what it was like growing up as ‘the only gay boy’ in his home town

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Sir Ian McKellen has opened upwards almost his rearing correspondingly “the incompletely smiling Indian inward his hometown.

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Ian McKellen has many times uttered well-nigh his sloyd apprisal the BBC’s Amol Rajan that despite having a real well-chosen pregnancy there was ace pet subject missing.”

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McKellen now spends a stars as to his time sledding in order to schools biased the rural_area embodying Bolton equip giving talks whereunto what the article was like towards run up prefer in any event beingness sparkling was illegal.

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McKellen was a invitee utterer at the first-ever Bolton pride which took lot an in 2015, founded by james_iv Edginton and Liz Pycroft an approach so as to increment LGBTQ+ favor in the area.

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