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<a href="/biography/ian-mckellen">Ian Murray McKellen</a> is a 75 year old English <a href="/biography/ian-mckellen">actor</a> hailing
from Burnley from the county of Lancashire in England. He has publicly
announced about him not having any religion and is an atheist, while also
coming out about his orientation stating clearly that he is a <a href="/biography/ian-mckellen">gay</a> and has
supposedly been in two same-gender relationships in his life.

Ian McKellen is most famous for his roles in the X-Men
series as the comic super villain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_(Marvel_Comics)">Magneto</a> who is a paralyzed man on a
wheelchair but can attract and use metallic objects with his mind. In real
life, he has been extremely vocal about his support for the gay community and
even went against some of the stated rules of his constitution during the late
1990s. He came out of the closet in his early adulthood and was even accepted
gladly by his step-mother whom he stated as being years ahead of her time in
terms of clarity and depth of thought.

His first serious relationship is reported to have started
back in 1964, a time when the world was still to take notice of people with a
different orientation, leave aside giving them equal place in the society as
others who are straight. His boyfriend,
Brian Taylor was a history teacher from Bolton and they even lived together in
London, much to the surprise of many who didn’t know about his orientation
since he hadn’t made it public yet though most of his theatre colleagues knew
about it long back when he used to work with them before making himself
permanent on the silver screen.

At the same time, as being in a relationship, he was rumored
to be having an affair with certain
girls but those were possibly started by people who didn’t know him closely and
thought of getting his name being dragged into a controversy or scandal. While there wasn’t any chance
of official marriage since
same-gender relationships weren’t taken into consideration during those days.
The relationship is supposed to have ended in 1972, making it an eight-year old
relation.

His second known relationship was with theatre and
struggling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Mathias">actor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Mathias">Sean Mathias</a> who reportedly revealed quite a bit of their
relationship soon after its end. They were said to have met at the Edinburgh
festival in 1978 and clicked almost immediately before living together, the same
year. The relation somehow survived tumultuous times and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Mathias">Sean</a> termed it as
being tempestuous and mostly had conflicts relating to Ian’s success and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Mathias">Sean</a>’s
relatively unsuccessful acting career. They ended the relation, 10 years after
its start in 1988 thus ending Ian’s last known relation. Both partners though
united for a play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, titled Waiting for Godot.
Soon after, they united again on a business perspective by co-purchasing the
lease on The Grapes public house in Narrow Street.

Despite being known to everybody as straight, except for his
theatre colleagues and family friends who knew it since the start, he came out
in public in 1988, the same year his last relation ended. He played a
significant role in the broadening of mindsets towards gay people. Since he
never got married, he never had a divorce.

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