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National Student Pride's ambassador Evan Davis guest hosts the show and interviews LGBT+ Icon Ian McKellen on the #StudentPride podcast at National Student Pride 2019.
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Evan Davis interviewed Ian McKellen on the #QueerAF podcast at National Student Pride 2019 at the University of Westminster, discussing his lifetime achievements and relationship with the LGBT community.
They spoke about #MeToo, chemsex, drugs, his coming out, the #MeToo movement and empowered the young LGBT+ audience.
The event took place on February 23rd at the non-profit organizations, now five-year-long residency, Westminster Marylebone campus.
Davis and McKellen hosted a live-stream of #QueerAF the National Student Pride podcast.
In conversation, McKellen proposed to Evan Davis they speak about chemsex. Otherwise known as getting high and horny or party and play â those who take part in chemsex do so to change the sex they are having with a so-called âholy trinityâ of drugs.
McKellen spoke about when he first tried a joint at the age of 30, with Evan Davis adding that âdrugs were much weaker back thenâ.
The audience at National Student Pride were enthralled by Ian with his re-tellings of his pursuits to join the theatre as âone of the reasons I became a professional actor is because I learned that I could meet queers in the British theatreâ and admitting âI just wish when I was younger I could have been myselfâ.
McKellen got many a laugh with his unrelenting wit, gesticulating at one point about âdrawings of genitalia in public bathroomsâ.
The conversation also looked at various aspects of McKellen's life:
- His coming out story
- How Margaret Thatcherâs Section 28 Law made him the activist he is today and how the queer scene in the theatre was what first attracted him to the profession
- His advice to young LGBT+ students
- Holding Elijah Woodâs hand while he got a tattoo during the filming of Lord of the Rings
- The #MeToo movement
On Me Too he says:
'Well frankly, Iâm waiting for someone to accuse me of something, and me wondering whether theyâre not telling the truth and me having forgotten (pointing to his head) you know.
But with the couple of names youâve mention, people Iâve worked with, both of them were in the closet. And hence all their problems as people and their relationships with other people, if they had been able to be open about themselves and their desires, they wouldnât have started abusing people in the way theyâve been accused.
Whether they should be forced to stop working. Thatâs debatable. I rather think thatâs up to the public. Do you want to see someone who has been accused of something that you donât approve of again? If the answerâs no, then you wonât buy a ticket, you wonât turn on the television. But there may be others for who thatâs not a consideration.
And itâs difficult to be exactly black and white.'
He has since released this statement about the comments: https://twitter.com/IanMcKellen/status/1101741037083455488
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