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Seven years after property developers closed down one of London’s beloved gay bars, former patrons are rallying around to raise funds to open UK’s first community-run LGBTQI venue. Joiners Arms on Hackney Road in East London, counted late fashion designer Alexander McQueen and actor Sir Ian McKellen among its regulars. Property developers shut down the bar in 2015, after they bought the plot to turn it into apartments and offices. The developers promised to fund a new LGBTQI venue at the same spot but plans stalled after pandemic hit work on a planned hotel. “I’m so proud to share the work we’ve done to turn this utopian idea into a real space – one that can survive as a viable business, will create opportunities for queer people to work, perform, create, socialise and just ‘be’ on their own terms,” Amy Roberts, Chair Friends of the Joiners Arms said in a statement. Actors Stephen Fry and  Mawaan Rizwan and comedian Joe Lycett are among those who have supported the campaign. The campaign offered shares in the new bar to supporters, with each share worth £ 25.

Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Mark Rylance are the adorable duo we never knew we needed. The pair were among several stars in the stands at Wimbledon, watching the action unfold on the court for day eight of the tennis tournament. They sat alongside the likes of Sir Cliff Richard, Lorraine Kelly, and Stephen Fry, who all scrubbed up nicely for the occasion.

Perthshire Pride has announced that the special headliner for its 2022 festival will be local LGBTQ+ icon Alan Cumming. Announced on World Pride Day, the Aberfeldy-born Tony Award winning actor will be leading the march and delivering an opening speech at the equality and diversity celebration on August 13.

EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen (The Good Liar), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) will lead the cast of The Critic, a period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’ classic novel Curtain Call, which will also star Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), BAFTA nominee Romola Garai (Suffragette), Ben Barnes (Westworld) and Alfred Enoch (Foundation).

EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen is among the stars of Ken McMullen’s Hamlet Within, a part-documentary feature investigating the mythology around the Shakespeare play, which is headed to the Cannes Market.

A version of this story about Judi Dench first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Dame Judi Dench and and Sir Kenneth Branagh’s twelfth collaboration since they met in 1987 was a auspicious one: Playing her longtime friend’s grandmother in his autobiographical coming-of-age drama “Belfast” earned Dench her eighth Oscar nomination. (Branagh didn’t fare too poorly, either: He now has nominations in more categories than anyone in Oscar history.) “It is good, always, to know somebody so well that you have a kind of shorthand with them, which I have with Ken because we’ve worked together for such a long time,” Dench told TheWrap.

Elvis Presley had married Priscilla Presley on May 1 - the King bought a ranch. He named it the Circle G Ranch, and as a born-and-bred Mississippi local, he was keen to fill it up with all kinds of animals.

Elvis Presley was working on his new feature film, Viva Las Vegas. He was no stranger to working with beautiful actresses from around the USA, but he was not expecting to fall in love. When Elvis met Ann-Margret for the first time everything changed for him.

Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret first met in 1964 they likely didn't think they would fall for one another. At the time, the actors were working on their next feature film, Viva Las Vegas, but the more time they spent with one another off-camera, the more they fell in love. Ann-Margret remembered spending time with the King in his hotel suite and riding motorcycles on the weekend.

Kristen Stewart stunned as she arrived for The Hollywood Reporter’s Oscar Nominee night on Monday March 7. The 31-year-old actress sported a tiny white crop top with a matching long skirt and high heels, while she attended the celebration event for Academy Award nominees. The actress, whose nominated for Best Leading Actress for her performance in Spencer stunned with her blonde down as she walked the red carpet.

Elvis Presley started dating Miss Tennessee model Linda Thompson. The 37-year-old invited the 22-year-old to live with him at Graceland, which she did from 1972-1976.

Sir Ian McKellen has opened up about his family life in a new BBC interview, expressing his wish that he had been able to tell his father that was gay before he died. In a conversation with Amol Rajan, the Lord of the Rings and X-Men actor recalled growing up in Wigan, where he and his family moved shortly before the outbreak of World War II. In 1988, the now-82-year-old came out publicly in a BBC radio interview, going on to co-found LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall the following year.

BBC programme, which sees famous faces - including Kate Winslet, Charles Dance, Daniel Radcliffe and Danny Dyer - trace their ancestry with the help of experts. Ricky was full of disdain for the celebrities who have appeared on the show, and have wept over distant relatives they have never met. “I like the way the actors cry.

Wilson Chapman editorMichaela Jaé Rodriguez will be honored with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, the organization announced Wednesday.Now in its 33rd year, the GLAAD Media Awards honor film, TV and media that advance the representation of LGBTQ+ people and topics.

Kristen Stewart is now an Oscar-nominated actor. On Tuesday, the star landed an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her spot-on portrayal of a jazzy tone poem about the late royal. The nod also reportedly makes , along with West Side Story nominee Ariana DeBose, one of the first openly queer actors to be nominated in a major acting category since Ian McKellen was nominated for Lord of the Rings in 2002.

As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees for the 2022 Oscars on Tuesday (Feb. 8), the LGBTQ+ community was greeted with some good news: for the first time since Sir Ian McKellen was nominated in 2002 for Best Supporting Actor in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, an openly queer-identifying performer was nominated in an action role. Actually, twomembers of the Alphabet Mafia were nominated Tuesday morning: Ariana DeBose, who scored a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role of Anita in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story; and Kristen Stewart, who was nominated for Best Lead Actress for her turn as Princess Diana in the historical fiction drama, Spencer.

Bolton has been named as one of the worst places to live in England.

After conquering the stage and screen, Sir Ian McKellen still has a few things left to do.

Sir Ian McKellen has said the last major professional achievement he would like to conquer is starring in a musical.

Greater Manchester has produced its fair share of famous faces.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAfter concluding his sixth Middle-earth film, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” Ian McKellen praised Peter Jackson, telling Variety, “He’s invented technology to match his imagination.”Jackson’s first “Lord of the Rings” film, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” premiered in December, 2001, and celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.Jackson oversees five companies in Wellington, New Zealand, that were each started to fill the films’ needs:— Weta Workshop w

Tom Hiddleston made a surprise guest appearance in a U.K. stage play on Monday night.

ABBA’s revival is being topped with their first ever Christmas song.

Fans are blown away after learning an interesting fact about Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and their movie The Lord of the Rings.

Sir Ian McKellen has joined forces with ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus for one of the weirdest pairings in recent memory.

Ian McKellen and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus have collaborated for a bizarre Christmas video.Shared on the McKellen’s Instagram page on Sunday (November 21), the video shows the pair knitting ABBA-branded Christmas jumpers surrounded by sewing material.As the camera pans out, the duo are shown to be sat under a massive ABBA banner, before the closing text reads: “Merry Christmas from ABBA and Ian McKellen.”McKellen captioned the clip: “The most exciting (mostly) silent clip you’ll see this season.”A

Sir Ian McKellen made the day of 17-year-old Millie Anna Prelogar when he got in touch and asked her to show him around her hometown of Windsor, England.

Sir Ian McKellen made the day of 17-year-old Millie Anna Prelogar when he got in touch and asked her to show him around her hometown of Windsor, England.

The Graham Norton ShowRating: 3/5The Jonathan Ross ShowRating: 2/5The 80s: Music's Greatest Decade?Rating: 2/5What was Sir Ian McKellen thinking? For a couple of minutes on a prime-time chat show, he started talking seriously — and held everyone mesmerised. The 82-year-old, currently playing the doddery family retainer Firs in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, told The Graham Norton Show (BBC1) how he captured the octogenarian servant's gait, with one palsied hand and a crooked back.

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Phil Dunster, coming off the second season of Emmy winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso. He plays series regular Jamie Tartt.