{"id":239,"date":"2007-07-21T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T15:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/07\/21\/ian-mckellen-wades-into-singapore-gay-rights-debate\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T21:10:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T02:10:43","slug":"ian-mckellen-wades-into-singapore-gay-rights-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/07\/21\/239-ian-mckellen-wades-into-singapore-gay-rights-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen wades into Singapore gay rights debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) &#8211; As Gandalf and Magneto, he&#8217;s faced off fire-breathing monsters and superheroes, but actor Ian McKellen says he picks his battles when it comes to celebrity causes. The Oscar-nominated thespian stepped into a brewing debate in Singapore about decriminalising homosexual acts just hours after arriving in the city state this week as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s touring production of William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear&#8221; and Anton Chekhov&#8217;s &#8220;The Seagull&#8221;. McKellen, 68, was quoted in Singapore&#8217;s pro-government media urging the state to repeal its laws that make sexual acts between men a crime. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/in.today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyID=2007-07-19T140532Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-285563-1.xml\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) &#8211; As Gandalf and Magneto, he&#8217;s faced off fire-breathing monsters and superheroes, but actor Ian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,10,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}