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Sir Ian McKellen talks new gay sitcom and growing up in the 1950s
A TV show to watch out for!
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Openly gay actor talks about starring in new sitcom Viscious with Sir Derek Jacobi, also openly gay
Sir Ian McKellen has talked about his new gay sitcom and growing up in the 1950s.
In the upcoming ITV show ‘Vicious’, starring McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi, it will look at the life of a 48-year-long relationship between two men living in the heart of Soho.
Talking on The Jonathan Ross Show on Friday night (15 March), McKellen talked about his experiences growing up as a gay man.
He said: ‘If you were gay in the 1950s you didn’t dare risk telling anybody else you were in case you got reported to the police and put in prison. It was illegal to make love.’
He denied the underground gay scene was not all that exciting, saying: ‘There was no way you could go out for the evening and be yourself, you had to do it behind close doors.
‘It’s very exciting every now and again but not for your whole life.’
The original name of the sitcom was ‘Vicious Old Queens’, to which McKellen protested saying he was ‘not old’.
Explaining the dynamics of the show, he says there will be one mother who does not know about her son’s sexuality and feisty best friend Violet will be on hand to calm down their heated arguments.
Joking about his time at university McKellen said it ‘wasn’t for want of trying’ when the talk show host asked whether he ever had a relationship with Jacobi.
‘Vicious’ has filmed an entire series and are now recording their first Christmas special. The first episode will air later this year.
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Ellen DeGeneres talks to A Current Affair about coming out and the Australia trip | The Australian »
The openly gay chat show host told Grimshaw of the anger and humiliation she endured after her decision in 1997 to come out on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Subsequently her character on the Ellen sitcom admitted to being gay. The show was cancelled the following year.
DeGeneres revealed she didn’t receive any showbiz jobs for three years and that she went broke. She says it made her a stronger person.
“I was furious at the time because…I just felt like it was my fault,” DeGeneres said.
“I was so mad that I lost my show, and not just my show but for three years I didn’t have any offers.
“I mean literally, the phone did not ring for three years and I had no money.
“All of a sudden just because of one revelation (gay) I was the joke.
“I was the punchline of every late night talk show, I was made fun of in a magazine, and it felt horrible at the time.
“Now I look back on it and I am thankful because it gave me a chance to examine myself and say who are you without fame, who are you without success, who are you without money?”
DeGeneres has had the last laugh. Her hugely popular talk show is now in its 10th season and is syndicated to 23 countries.
Her positivity has won her a legion of fans right around the world.
That doesn’t mean she has totally won the fight.
“I think there are a lot of people who don’t approve of who I am and who don’t understand and I can’t really do anything about that,” DeGeneres told Grimshaw.
“I wish I could make people see there is nothing wrong with being who you are.”
The Ellen DeGeneres Show audience cheered as DeGeneres told Grimshaw about how past hurts had shaped her attitude to life.
“I used to want people to like me and I still want them to like me but I know I have no control over it,” DeGeneres said.
“I can just be myself. I am a good person, I’m a kind person. I live my life in a kind way.
“I go to sleep at night and know I’ve done the best I can. That’s all I can do.”
Scout’s Honor (by TheEllenShow)
Ellen takes on the Boy Scouts and their ban on openly gay members.
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Ellen Meets Chris Kluwe! (by TheEllenShow)
And he dances too! Sorta. Luckily he’s a much better writer/speaker and proponent for marriage equality.
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TV anchor under fire for calling lesbian Rachel Maddow an ‘angry young man’
Ad hominem attacks such as this are despicable. While I doubt Rachel Maddow gives two shits what Tricia Macke has to say about her, it sends a horrible message to LGBTQ youth (and still-struggling adults) to hear such vespid vile from ‘profesional’ news anchor.
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GLAAD and Equality Ohio have started petition against Tricia Macke
Tricia Macke, a news anchor for the Fox affiliate in Cincinatti, Ohio, is under fire for calling MSNBC’s lesbian anchor Rachel Maddow an ‘angry young man.’
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Equality Ohio have launched a petition calling on Fox 19 to condemn comments made last month by Macke on her her Facebook page.
In an exchange that also appears to have been since deleted, Macke also wrote: ‘I knew what I was saying.’
‘Macke owes an apology not only to viewers, but to young people in Ohio who are subjected to unfair bullying and harassment like this on a daily basis,’ said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick.
Macke has been with the station since 1992.
The petition states that Fox 19 and its owner Raycom Media ‘must take swift action to condemn Macke’s remarks, and Macke should make a full apology.’
It adds that ‘referring to Maddow as a ‘man’ because she is a gay woman is completely unacceptable for someone in the business of journalism. … Tricia Macke undoubtedly tried to insult Maddow because of their political differences, rather than simply because Maddow is gay - but her comments went much further than insulting Maddow’s political leanings, and took issue with Maddow’s gender, revealing an anti-gay (or at least anti-gender-nonconforming?) bias underlying her political beliefs.’
No To Homophobia - TV Ads (by NoToHomophobia)
Anti trans/bi/homophobia ads set to run in Australia.
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In an Australian-first, a new public campaign will combine TV ads, social media, online support resources and moving personal stories from people who have experienced harassment to challenge every single member of the community to say no to homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
Two television ads, to be broadcast nationally over the next year, depict the most common everyday situations where people face harassment — at school, in sports, at work and in public spaces like cafes and on the street. They show people experiencing harassment and witnesses taking action to put a stop to the offensive behaviour. TV ads focusing on homophobic harassment have never been shown in Australia.
An online resource at http://www.notohomophobia.com.au/ helps people get informed, find support and take action by hosting all the relevant information, resources and contacts in one place.
Spokesperson Anna Brown said “Everyone agrees there is no place for racism or sexism in modern Australia. Homophobia, biphobia and transphobia are no different. Homophobic harassment is never acceptable and often unlawful. We need to stop harassment and the harm it causes to our friends, family members and neighbours.”
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notohomophobia
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/notohomophobia
Super Golden Friends (by kevinbappdotcom)
Brilliant.
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What happens when four superfriends retire and move to Miami to share a ranch style home? This is a pilot I’d like to propose to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, if I knew anyone who worked there, and if all the licenses could be obtained.
State-run TV in Malaysia to ‘ban’ programmes featuring gay characters
Malaysian state TV has banned images of gay people
The Malaysian Information Department has banned television shows which feature gay characters, starting with state-run channels.
The country’s Deputy Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Maglin Dennis D’Cruz said the ban would be effective immediately beginning with state-owned TV and radio stations.
Mr D’Cruz said: “If it means cancelling some of the shows, so be it.” He added that the intention behind the move was to curb the “influence” of the LGBT community in Malaysia.
The decision will apparently be later expanded to cover privately-owned stations as well as satellite TV providers. Foreign productions will be dealt with by the national censorship board, which will remove episodes from TV shows which are already up-and-running and prevent the local screening of films with gay characters.
Issued by the Information Department on its Facebook page yesterday, the directive stated: “Effective immediately, radio and TV stations are asked to stop screening shows which feature gay, effeminate men as well as characters that go against the norm of a religious society because this encourages and promotes LGBT now.”
For a short while, there was a rumour that the directive was merely a “discussion topic” but the Culture Minister confirmed it was a genuine edict and that guidelines would be produced for TV and radio stations on how to avoid allowing LGBT characters on screen or the air waves.
