While McKellen had made his sexual orientation known to fellow actors early on in his stage career, it was not until 1988 that he came out to the general public, in a programme on BBC Radio. The context that prompted McKellen's decision—overriding any concerns about a possible negative effect on his career—was that the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Bill, known simply as Section 28, was then under consideration in the British Parliament. Section 28 proposed prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality "... as a kind of pretended family relationship". McKellen became active in fighting the proposed law, and, during a BBC Radio 3 programme where he debated Section 28 with the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne, declared himself as a gay.
LGBT rights campaigning
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
He was gay His first partner was Brian Taylor and the second partner was Sean Mathias. Brian Taylor Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
what is the regina monologues?
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Fourth episode of "The Simpsons"' fifteenth season.
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when was it released?
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November 23, 2003
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who directed it?
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Mark Kirkland
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who are the characters in that?
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Mr. Burns, Bart, Milhouse, Marge, Homer, Abraham Simpson, etc.
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what is that episode's story all about, in short?
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Simpson family travel to the United Kingdom for vacation and there, they meet several celebrities. Later, Homer is arrested and locked for accidentally crashing into the Queen's carriage, meanwhile, Abraham Simpson journeys to find Edwina.
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what celebrities do they meet in that episode?
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Tony Blair, Evan Marriott, Ian McKellen and J. K. Rowling
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did all the above people lend their voices for this show speaking in terms of reality?
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Yes
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who is that second celebrity mentioned?
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who is that third celebrity mentioned?
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An English actor.
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can you name some of his tv shows/films he has appeared in?
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Richard III, Gods and Monsters, X-Men films, and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
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name some of his charitable works.
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Appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK and umpired in March 2011 for a charity cricket match.
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LGBT rights
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McKellen has continued to be very active in LGBT rights efforts. In a statement on his website regarding his activism, the actor commented that: McKellen is a co-founder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. McKellen is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GAY-GLOS, LGBT Foundation, and FFLAG where he appears in their video "Parents Talking".
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
In the 1970s, McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. McKellen was knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts, and made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality in the 2008 New Year Honours. He has been openly gay since 1988, and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded Freedom of the City of London in October 2014.
Ian McKellen | Introduction
While McKellen had made his sexual orientation known to fellow actors early on in his stage career, it was not until 1988 that he came out to the general public, in a programme on BBC Radio. The context that prompted McKellen's decision—overriding any concerns about a possible negative effect on his career—was that the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Bill, known simply as Section 28, was then under consideration in the British Parliament. Section 28 proposed prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality "... as a kind of pretended family relationship". McKellen became active in fighting the proposed law, and, during a BBC Radio 3 programme where he debated Section 28 with the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne, declared himself as a gay.
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
Section 28 was, however, enacted and remained on the statute books until 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales. Section 28 never applied in Northern Ireland. In 2003, during an appearance on "Have I Got News For You", McKellen claimed when he visited Michael Howard, then Environment Secretary (responsible for local government), in 1988 to lobby against Section 28, Howard refused to change his position but did ask him to leave an autograph for his children. McKellen agreed, but wrote, "Fuck off, I'm gay." McKellen described Howard's junior ministers, Conservatives David Wilshire and Dame Jill Knight, who were the architects of Section 28, as the 'ugly sisters' of a political pantomime.
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
McKellen has stated that he was influenced in his decision by the advice and support of his friends, among them noted gay author Armistead Maupin. In a 1998 interview that discusses the 29th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, McKellen commented, I have many regrets about not having come out earlier, but one of them might be that I didn't engage myself in the politicking. He has said of this period: My own participating in that campaign was a focus for people [to] take comfort that if Ian McKellen was on board for this, perhaps it would be all right for other people to be as well, gay and straight.
Ian McKellen | LGBT rights campaigning
McGowan married in 2010. She and her wife, Emily, a Biden Foundation LGBTQ advisor and former Chief Policy Officer for the Family Equality Council, have two daughters.
Sharon McGowan | Personal life
He is married to fellow GB rower Sue Handscomb.
Ian McNuff | Personal life
He married Merilyn Holding in 1968. They have two sons and a daughter.
Ian Stewart (Labour politician) | Personal life
He supports Manchester United. On 30 August 1980, McShane married actress Gwen Humble (born 4 December 1953). They live in Venice, California.
Ian McShane | Personal life
The pair entered into a business partnership with Evgeny Lebedev, purchasing the lease of The Grapes public house in Narrow Street. McKellen is an atheist. In the late 1980s, McKellen lost his appetite for every kind of meat but fish, and has since followed a mainly pescetarian diet. In 2001, Ian McKellen received the Artist Citizen of the World Award (France). He has a tattoo of the Elvish number nine, written using J. R. R. Tolkien's constructed script of Tengwar, on his shoulder in reference to his involvement in the "Lord of the Rings" and the fact that his character was one of the original nine companions of the Fellowship of the Ring.
Ian McKellen | Personal life
A homosexual by nature during a period in New Zealand when even the suspicion of homosexuality could destroy a career McIntosh chose discretion. He married librarian Doris Hutchinson Pow, in Wellington on 20 September 1934. They had a son, James during their lifetime marriage.
Alister McIntosh | Personal life
McKellen and his first partner, Brian Taylor, a history teacher from Bolton, began their relationship in 1964. Their relationship lasted for eight years, ending in 1972. They lived in London, where McKellen continued to pursue his career as an actor. For over a decade, he has lived in a five-storey Victorian conversion in Narrow Street, Limehouse. In 1978 he met his second partner, Sean Mathias, at the Edinburgh Festival. This relationship lasted until 1988, and according to Mathias, was tempestuous, with conflicts over McKellen's success in acting versus Mathias's somewhat less-successful career. The two remained friends, with Mathias later directing McKellen in "Waiting for Godot" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.
Ian McKellen | Personal life
He married Jane Simmons in 1963, and they had two sons and two daughters. He died from cancer aged 60. His son, Duncan Enright, stood against Michael Heseltine in Henley in the 1997 General Election, and against David Cameron in Witney in the 2015 General Election.
Derek Enright | Personal life
Appearances: Little Britain USA episode 2 Making one appearance in the U.S version of the show, a couple are divorcing because of the wife's homosexuality. As they are packing her belongings into boxes, the husband discovers numerous books, toys and essentials that suggest her homosexuality that she kept hidden from him. At the end of the sketch he accidentally uncovers a book of his entitled "Sir Ian McKellen's book of men's bottoms," indicating that he is homosexual as well.
List of Little Britain characters | The Divorced Couple
Killen is gay, and married his husband Peter when they eloped in 2013. They hope to retire to Peter's hometown in Northern Ireland, which has influenced Killen's campaigning to equalise same-sex marriage laws between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Killen is a Roman Catholic.
Ged Killen | Personal life
In 1988, he married Annette Frenkel, with whom he has one son, Colin. He is a member of the New Club.
Ronald Mackay, Lord Eassie | Personal life
In 1993, as national secretary of Family Solidarity, he campaigned against the decriminalisation of homosexuality, calling it "unnatural". In 2015, in the lead up to the marriage equality referendum, he campaigned against it, and called for a no vote.
Joe McCarroll | LGBT rights
McElhinney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of a clergyman and teacher. He studied International affairs at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He worked as a teacher at Goole Grammar School, now known as Goole Academy in Yorkshire, England, for several years before becoming an actor. He is married to playwright/actress Marie Jones; the couple started their own company, Rathmore Productions Ltd. They live in Belfast and have three sons.
Ian McElhinney | Personal life
He is married to actress Nicole Tubiola with whom he has a son.
Kieren Hutchison | Personal life
He has a wife, Elinor, and two children. He is a second cousin of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Hamish McDouall | Personal life
Lieberthal's wife, Jane Lindsay Lieberthal, is a former university administrator. They have two sons, Keith and Geoffrey. Keith is married to actress Julianna Margulies, while Geoffrey is engaged to former Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen.
Kenneth Lieberthal | Personal life
He met his first wife Valerie Ross in Cambridge and they were married in 1967. They left Cambridge to start the department of Computer Science at the new Lancaster University and their first daughter, Kirsteen, was born there. Later they had two more daughters, Tamzyn and Janna. Valerie died in 1994. He is married to Kathy Humphry whom he first met in 1978 at the University of Edinburgh where she was a Computing Officer.
Malcolm Atkinson | Personal
He married Welsh runner Hayley Tullett (née Parry) in 1999.
Ian Tullett | Personal life
He married Wendelien van den Biggelaar, a Dutch citizen, in 1980: they have one son and two daughters.
Iain McNicoll | Personal life
Health Minister Jim Wells was widely criticised after claiming children brought up in same-sex relationships were more likely to be abused or neglected; he was forced to resign shortly thereafter. Paisley's son Ian Paisley Jr stated he was "repulsed" by homosexuality. In 2008, Iris Robinson, the wife of then-First Minister Peter Robinson, recommended conversion therapy, and called homosexuality "disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, wicked, and vile." She also implied that homosexuality was worse than child abuse. As First Minister, her husband Peter Robinson defended the views of those who thought homosexuality should be illegal and stated that if homosexuality were recriminalised, he would expect people to obey the law.
LGBT rights in Northern Ireland | Democratic Unionist Party
In 1971 he married Edith Tryon, who was born in New Zealand. They had three children and two foster children.
Colin Slee | Personal life
Evans has spoken out about homophobic abuse received on Twitter for his presenting style and continues to be vocal in his support the LGBTQ community. In March 2017 Evans married his long-term partner Arran Rees in London. In his leisure time Evans enjoys drumming.
Owain Wyn Evans | Personal life
He is married to Kelli Young, formerly of pop group Liberty X.
Iain James | Personal life
He is married to Lynn McLoughlin, who he employed as a Senior Parliamentary Assistant on a salary up to £40,000. His son James was also employed by the Conservative Party as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Theresa May.
Patrick McLoughlin | Personal life
Mathias is openly gay. He was in a relationship with actor Ian McKellen from 1978 to 1988. He married his partner Paul de Lange in South Africa in 2007. Mathias is the co-owner of The Grapes, Limehouse with Ian McKellen and Evgeny Lebedev.
Sean Mathias | Personal life
McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the "Hartford Courant", on September 9, 1989; they were divorced in 1996. She has a son with "Foreign Affairs" editor James Hoge, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and named after the actor Spencer Tracy. She is the executrix of the estate of longtime friend actress Katharine Hepburn. She has Crohn's disease and has done public service announcements to raise awareness of the condition.
Cynthia McFadden | Personal life
McDonald is openly gay and, on 19 May 2015, gathered with other LGBT SNP MPs, including his near-namesake Stuart McDonald, to campaign for a "Yes" vote in the Irish referendum on same-sex marriage, being held three days later. He is also an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
Stewart McDonald (politician) | Personal life
Dora had a son, Raymond Frost (b 1925), from her first marriage. The Gaitskells had two daughters: Julia, born in 1939 and Cressida, born in 1942. Dora Gaitskell became a Labour life peer one year after her husband's death, and died in 1989. Gaitskell had a long-term affair in the 1950s with the socialite Ann Fleming, the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. In private, he was humorous and fun loving, with a love of ballroom dancing. This contrasted with his stern public image. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
Hugh Gaitskell | Marriage and personal life
In 1934 McLachlan married Katherine "Kitty" Harman, the sister of British author Elizabeth Pakenham. Together they had four children: Andrew (b. 1935), Jeremy Hugh (b. 1937), Valerie Jean (b. 1939) and Donald Alistair. One of relatives by marriage is his niece Harriet Harman, a noted Labour Party Member of Parliament who has served in a number of offices since 1997.
Donald McLachlan | Personal life
His first wife was actress Diana Quick. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with actress Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory. He has also performed a number of readings for BBC Radio.
Kenneth Cranham | Personal life
His partner, the actor Geoffrey Burridge, died from AIDS complications in 1987.
Alec McCowen | Personal life
Kay and his wife Kerry have three adult sons, David, Bruce, and Clive. They have an adopted adult son, John Rutherford, and an adopted daughter, Lindsay, whose parents died in a plane crash in 2000. Kay attends a United Methodist church in Marondera, which he helped build and where his wife carries out work with AIDS orphans. The church was burned in 2005 during Kay's parliamentary campaign as an act of intimidation. Kay's wife, Kerry, is the national AIDS coordinator for the Commercial Farmers' Union.
Iain Kay | Personal life
McKenney is openly gay. He has a daughter (who was conceived via IVF), Charlotte Wood, who lives in Melbourne with her mother, Anne Wood. McKenney has said his first girlfriend, at twelve years of age, was dancer and presenter Sonia Kruger.
Todd McKenney | Personal life
In 1958, MacNaughton married actress Rita Davies, with whom he had two children and who frequently guest-starred in episodes of "Monty Python". They were married for 20 years before divorcing in 1978. In 1995, he married his second wife, Ike Ott, whom he had met while filming "Monty Python"s German episodes in Bavaria in 1972.
Ian MacNaughton | Personal life
Married to Geraldine with two children, Orla and Freya, he lives in South East London.
Murray McArthur | Personal life
and Mrs. A.B. Tapping, Norman V. Norman, Madge McIntosh and the Shakespearean actor Ian Maclarean. During that period, he married the actress Mona Limerick; they had three children.
Ben Iden Payne | First professional work
Bruce McKellar married Loris Huckel in 1963. They have 2 children and 4 grandchildren and live in Melbourne, Australia.
Bruce McKellar | Personal life
Joan and Khan also divorced and the Prince later married American actress Rita Hayworth, and Joan married the 2nd Viscount Camrose and was styled as Joan Berry, Viscountess Camrose.
Loel Guinness (politician) | Personal life
Hesmondhalgh is married to screenwriter Ian Kershaw. The couple live in Tameside with their two daughters.
Julie Hesmondhalgh | Personal life
McRae was born in Dundee. He is married to actress Lindsay Duncan, with whom he has a son, Cal McRae (born September 1991). A close friend and University of Edinburgh classmate of Ian Charleson, McRae contributed a chapter to the 1990 book, "For Ian Charleson: A Tribute".
Hilton McRae | Personal life
Both of McKellen's grandfathers were preachers, and his great-great-grandfather, James McKellen, was a "strict, evangelical Protestant minister" in Ballymena, County Antrim. His home environment was strongly Christian, but non-orthodox. "My upbringing was of low nonconformist Christians who felt that you led the Christian life in part by behaving in a Christian manner to everybody you met." When he was 12, his mother died of breast cancer; his father died when he was 24. After his coming out as gay to his stepmother, Gladys McKellen, who was a Quaker, he said, "Not only was she not fazed, but as a member of a society which declared its indifference to people's sexuality years back, I think she was just glad for my sake that I wasn't lying anymore." His great-great-grandfather Robert J.
Ian McKellen | Early life
In 2002 Shakespeare married dancer and disability rights campaigner Caroline Bowditch. They have a son and a daughter. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). By 2010 he had split with his wife and he lived in Geneva with his partner, Alana. In 2016 he featured on the ITV show "500 Questions", winning £14,000 by answering 42 out of 50 questions. He received a standing ovation for his efforts.
Tom Shakespeare | Personal life
He was married to Marion Constance Archer-Shepherd, and together they had three sons.
Ian Holbourn | Personal life
And, yeah, I'm Scottish but I feel I'm part of the UK." Spiteri married celebrity chef Bryn Williams in September 2018.
Sharleen Spiteri | Personal life
In March 2006, four months after civil partnerships were introduced in the United Kingdom, Jacobi registered his civil partnership with theatre director Richard Clifford, his partner of 30 years. They live in West Hampstead, North West London. Along with his "Vicious" co-star Ian McKellen, he was a Grand Marshal of the 46th New York City Gay Pride March in 2015. Jacobi is an atheist.
Derek Jacobi | Personal life
Parsley has been married to South Belfast Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw since 2011. He is an avid Arsenal FC fan and a keen linguist, a subject about which he often writes.
Ian Parsley | Personal life
She is married to former Irish rugby player Hugo MacNeill, the former managing director of Goldman Sachs Investment Banking in Ireland. The couple have one son.
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill | Personal life
Macnaghten married Yvonne Marie Forrester at Windsor, England on 4 October 1906. They had five children, Susan May, Joan Yvonne Marie, Audrey Clarisse and James Steuart (twins) and Garrelle Renee.
Ernest Macnaghten | Marriage and children
He was absent for the vote for gay marriage on the third reading of the Bill. In 2014, he voted in favour of extending the right to same sex marriage to Armed Forces personnel outside the United Kingdom. He currently holds a 90.4% rating on the issue of same sex marriage according to the website Public Whip.
Tim Farron | LGBT rights
Cathcart and his wife, Gemma, have a son named Boston (born 2011).
Ian Cathcart | Personal
McInnes is rumoured to have had close male friendships prior to marrying Angela Mackail (later to become the author Angela Thirkell). He was known for his heavy drinking at the time of his marriage, and much later on his bisexuality became known.
James Campbell McInnes | Sexuality
His first marriage was to Gwyneth Martin in 1916. After her death he married Ailsa Stevenson in October 1947.
Grahame Donald | Personal life
Paisley married Fiona in 1990; they have four children. He is a member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, and a supporter of the Eurosceptic campaign Leave Means Leave.
Ian Paisley Jr | Personal life
He was the co-Chair of the East End Gay Organization which would eventually lead him to meet his future husband, playwright, Terrence McNally, as well as LGBT figures like Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Tom Kirdahy | Legal career and activism
In 1970, Blakiston married the actor Russell Hunter after they had played together in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. They had a son and a daughter together, but later divorced.
Caroline Blakiston | Personal life
Dr McDonald is married to Mary Callender and they have two sons: Jamie, aged 27, and Darren, aged 22. He has a son Keith, aged 50, a pilot in Canada, from a previous marriage.
Ian McDonald (Guyanese writer) | Personal life
He married Margaret Gillian Trotter (*16 August 1930 Kloof) on 30 January 1954 and they produced a family of 3 children - Philippa Jane (*1955 Epsom, England), Nicholas Hewlett (*1958 Dorset, England) and Sarah Victoria (*1964 Dorset, England). In 1972 he married Valerie Joan Parham (1936-1985) from Rhodesia and they had a son Angus Neil Cuan (*1973 Harare).
Cuan McCarthy | Personal life
Ian and wife Joan were married on December 31, 1971. They have three adult children Clare, Scott and Louise.
Ian Herbert White | Family life
Blethyn married Alan James Blethyn, a graphic designer she met while working for British Rail, in 1964. The marriage ended in 1973. Blethyn kept her husband's surname as her professional name. British art director Michael Mayhew has been her partner for the past three decades, and the couple married in June 2010. Blethyn was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama in the 2003 New Year Honours.
Brenda Blethyn | Personal life
In 1918 he married Gynnyth Paine. Their children included Prof Douglas Keith McEwan Kevan FRSE.
Douglas Keely Kevan | Family
Ian McGuire is married and lives with his wife and two children in Manchester.
Ian McGuire | Personal life
He married Australian Paralympic athlete Eliza Stankovic and they have two daughters and a son.
Kieran Ault-Connell | Introduction
McTaggart-Cowan was married for more than 70 years to Joyce McTaggart-Cowan (née Racey), the daughter of his mentor Kenneth Racey. They had a son, Garry, and a daughter, Ann.
Ian McTaggart-Cowan | Personal life
Halfon voted against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which permitted same-sex couples to marry, and much of the secondary legislation implementing the Act. However, he has since apologised for this, saying "I regret it and I would vote for equal marriage if it came before Parliament now". Halfon voted to extend same-sex marriage to residents of Northern Ireland on 9 July 2019.
Robert Halfon | LGBT rights
In 2009, David Cameron, then leader of the Conservative Party, apologised for his party supporting the law. (In 2013, after he became Prime Minister, his government passed the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, legalising gay marriage in England and Wales.) In 2013, the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prompted critical comment from many LGBT organisations and individuals such as Peter Tatchell about her legacy on gay rights, including Section 28.
Section 28 | Political response
Kinsey, an atheist, married Clara McMillen in 1921. Their marriage ceremony, like his college graduation, was avoided by Alfred Sr. The couple had four children. Their first son, Donald, born in 1922, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. Their first daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928. Kinsey was bisexual and, as a young man, would punish himself for having homoerotic feelings. He and his wife agreed that both could have sex with other people as well as with each other.
Alfred Kinsey | Personal life
He married twice, firstly in 1927 to Eileen Dorothea Burrell, then following her death in 1943 he remarried in 1944 to Iris Shepherd. His son Kenneth served as Lord Advocate from 1984-89. His daughter, Katharine Lindsay Cameron, married David Bruce Weir, Lord Weir.
John Cameron, Lord Cameron | Family
In December 2007, he was named the 27th most influential LGBT person in British politics by "Pink News". Collins married his partner Rafael in 2014.
Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury | Personal life
He married his first wife Hedi Stadlen after graduating from Cambridge. In 1952 he married his second wife Maud Rogerson a communist activist. His third wife was Ouida Keuneman, with whom he lived out his days.
Pieter Keuneman | Family
Morris was married to singer Kim Willoughby of New Zealand's most successful all-female group "When the Cat's Away", with whom he had two daughters, Julia and Maude, and a stepson, James.
Ian Morris (musician) | Personal life
He married his wife Francesca de Takats in 2007 at Babington House. They have three children.
Clive Standen | Personal life
In 1966, Shindler married Gaye Shindler (née Kenton). The couple had three children: British television producer Nicola Shindler, Freya Boroda, and Caroline Conway. His brother is Colin Shindler, who wrote "Manchester United Ruined My Life."
Geoffrey Shindler | Personal life
McEwan is married to journalist and writer Annalena McAfee a former editor of "The Guardian's Review" section. He lives in London. In 2002, McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during the Second World War; the story became public in 2007. The brother, a bricklayer named David Sharp, was born six years earlier than McEwan, when their mother was married to a different man. Sharp has the same parents as McEwan but was born from an affair between them that occurred before their parents' marriage. After her first husband was killed in combat, McEwan's mother married her lover, and Ian was born a few years later.
Ian McEwan | Personal life
He married in 1979; he and his wife they have three children.
Alistair Magowan | Personal life
Russell married Cathleen MacAskill, a primary school head teacher, in March 1980 and they have one son Caileen "Cally" Russell(born 1988). Since August 1992 the family have lived in an 18th-century single storey farm dwelling in Glendaruel on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute.
Michael Russell (politician) | Personal life
He was married for 44 years (1946–1990) to Janey Buchan (née Kent), Labour Member of the European Parliament for Glasgow from 1979 to 1994. She died in Brighton on 14 January 2012. His only son, Alasdair Buchan, has been a journalist since 1968.
Norman Buchan | Family
McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Marjorie Kay (Stirrett), a teacher, and John Duncan McKellar, a corporate lawyer. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College. McKellar married his longtime partner, Canadian actress Tracy Wright, on January 3, 2010. Wright died from cancer on June 22, 2010.
Don McKellar | Personal life
Haskell married Annie Fader, a socialist and suffragist, in 1882. Their son, Astaroth, known as Roth, was born in 1886. The couple split in 1897 but remained married through Haskell's 1907 death.
Burnette Haskell | Personal life
Haskell was educated at Papplewick School and Wellington College. Haskell is married to television presenter Chloe Madeley; the couple started dating in 2014.
James Haskell | Personal life
McTeague and his wife, Naomi, have two children: Brianna and Ian.
Dave McTeague | Personal life
McClelland was married to Noreen, a local councillor and 2005 UK General Election candidate for the SDLP. The couple raised three children.
Donovan McClelland | Personal life
Summerskill was married in 1925 to Dr Jeffrey Samuel. Their children took their mother's surname. Her daughter, Shirley Summerskill, also served as a physician, member of parliament and government minister. Her grandson Ben Summerskill became Chief Executive of the British gay equality charity Stonewall in 2003.
Edith Summerskill | Personal life
In 2002 the Aliens Control Act was replaced by a new Immigration Act, in which the word "spouse" was defined as including "a person who is party to ... a permanent homosexual or heterosexual relationship which calls for cohabitation and mutual financial and emotional support, and is proven by a prescribed affidavit substantiated by a notarial contract." The decision in "National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v Minister of Home Affairs" was followed by a series of judgments extending to same-sex couples other benefits of marriage, including adoption, medical and pension benefits, artificial insemination, and intestate inheritance. In December 2005 the Constitutional Court ruled in "Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie" that Parliament was required to extend marriage to same-sex couples, which it duly did with the passage of the Civil Union Act in November 2006.
National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v Minister of Home Affairs | Subsequent developments
He married Hilary Burch in 1976. They have two sons and a daughter.
Alan Hurst (politician) | Personal life
He is married to Denise Donlon and they have a son, Duncan (b. March 1992).
Murray McLauchlan | Family
McDermott is married to actress Michelle Edwards. They have a daughter, Arrabella, born in January 2011 and a son. He is the younger of two boys with an older brother named Ian, a greenkeeper. Neil and his wife Michelle opened Mishmak Youth Theatre in January 2010. In September 2011 he ran the Great North Run with Charlie Brooks in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Neil McDermott | Personal life
He is openly gay and was formerly Deputy chairman (Political) of LGBTory, the Conservative LGBT Group. He is now a Patron of the group. In his maiden speech to the house, on 25 June 2010, he paid tribute to Alan Turing, and Gordon Brown's official apology for the state's persecution of Turing. He has spoken about how he was bullied at school for being gay and on the impact of homophobic bullying in schools. He was shortlisted for the Stonewall 'Politician of the Year' 2012.
Iain Stewart (politician) | Personal life
Hunter is the first openly-LGBTI member in the Parliament of South Australia, as well as Cabinet, as well as the first to marry while in parliament and the second same-sex married politician in Australia, and is noted for his public advocacy for LGBT issues, which at times has conflicted with aspects of Labor policy. Hunter and his partner of 20 years, Leith Semmens chose to travel to Spain to marry as Australian law did not recognise same-sex marriage at the time. In June 2008 Hunter introduced a number of amendments to the Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy) Bill, including removing the term "marriage-like relationship" in order to remove discrimination against same-sex couples.
Ian Hunter (politician) | LGBT advocacy
He is married to former Labour Party Senator Aideen Hayden.
Chris O'Malley | Introduction
On June 17, 1967, in Santa Monica, California, MacDonald married Shirley Kannegaard, a nurse whom he met when he was a patient at Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital. They remained wed until his death.
Ian MacDonald (actor) | Personal life
He married and later divorced Anne-Marie Barton. A second marriage followed in 1999 to Ngeon Khprjunklang; they had one son, Alistair.
Ian Knight | Family
She is married to Australian Ian Gray, and they have two children. She speaks both English and French.
Catherine Ebert-Gray | Personal
In 1971 he married Carolynn Hilary Homes and they went on to have three daughters.
Iain Mackay-Dick | Family
He is married to Norma with two children and lives in the Law part of Dundee.
Jim McGovern (British politician) | Personal life
He married Veronica Jane Wilson in 1969 and they have a son and a daughter, before divorcing in 1992. Bruce married secondly, in 1998, Rosemary Vetterlein, a Lib Dem activist and prospective parliamentary candidate who contested Beckenham unsuccessfully in 1997. Lord and Lady Bruce have two daughters and a son together. Bruce takes a keen interest in deaf issues; one of his children is deaf.
Malcolm Bruce | Personal life