{"id":19410,"date":"2019-02-24T20:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19410"},"modified":"2019-02-24T20:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:20:39","slug":"ian-mckellen-discusses-drug-use-coming-out-and-surviving-the-hiv-epidemic-in-a-candid-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/24\/ian-mckellen-discusses-drug-use-coming-out-and-surviving-the-hiv-epidemic-in-a-candid-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen discusses drug use, coming out and surviving the HIV epidemic in a candid chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft article-hero-image\">\n<div class=\"media-credit-container alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lgbtqnation-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/2019\/02\/ian-mckellen-500x282.jpg\" alt=\"Ian McKellen\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credit\">Daniel Villarreal<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ian McKellen, the openly gay, 79-year-old British actor best known for playing Gandalf in <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> and Magneto in the original <em>X-Men<\/em> film trilogy, recently sat down for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/studentpride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#QueerAF podcast<\/a> with BBC journalist Evan Davis in front of\u00a0the students of\u00a0Westminster University in Marylebone, England in celebration of National Student Pride 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2019\/02\/ian-mckellen-discusses-drug-use-coming-surviving-hiv-epidemic-candid-chat\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Daniel Villarreal Ian McKellen, the openly gay, 79-year-old British actor best known for playing Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Magneto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}