Update: Stephen Colbert interviewed Sir Ian McKellen on Monday, and it was just too funny not to share. Go watch it. ”You know we’re making a sequel. In Middle Earth. Ah, perhaps I shouldn’t say. [Looks over his shoulder.] It’s going to star Gandalf the Gay.”
Yesterday I posted about how Morgan Freeman has endorsed marriage equality. Today I get to deliver the exciting news of another endorser of marriage equality: Gandalf! (a.k.a. Sir Ian McKellen)
And there was a great disturbance, as if millions of homeschooler voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced when Gandalf said, “It shall pass!”
McKellen is himself gay, so this is not very surprising. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McKellen#Personal_life
Morgan Freeman’s endorsement is more notable due to Freeman’s being straight and prominent as an African-American entertainer (given the lesser support in the African-American community for same-sex marriage).