Still, there are people in the United States who will be feeling lonely and misunderstood in being gay. Of course, you are still left with the attitudes which underlie those laws. You make your arguments, and when you are right about them, as we are, eventually people come around and people change. And from that extreme to today, when there are now no laws which disadvantage gay people in the U.K.
We remember people going to prison for being gay. Ian: If you’re 76 years old, which Derek and I are, you’ve seen quite a bit of change. Tell me about the changes you’ve seen in how gays have been treated in your lifetimes. Ian: Don’t you be rude about London weather. It’s a tribute to you - London-y weather. I hope it gets it all over with before tomorrow.
I hope it’s not going to rain on the festivities tomorrow.ĭerek: It’s sort of raining now. The second was to attend the rally yesterday. Ian: I think we had three responsibilities as grand marshals, and one is have conversations like this with the media. We spoke to them on Saturday afternoon, as a rainstorm loomed over New York, presumably to be followed by a spectacularly inspiring rainbow. Holmes, in which he plays a mature Sherlock, no longer young. McKellen was also in town to promote his film Mr. (See: this Vine they did to celebrate while wearing Stonewall Inn T-shirts and playing Queen.) McKellen and Jacobi, both 76, play a gay couple on the PBS show “ Vicious ” and have known each other since they were both Cambridge students, long before it was possible to be openly gay. Christopher Neal and Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, a Ugandan activist) on the weekend the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage a right in the United States.
On June 28, Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are two of the grand marshals at the 2015 Gay Pride Parade (sharing that honor with the artist J.