Critics have slated Sirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s new gay sitcom Vicious.

The first episode saw older gay couple Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together for 48 years, hosting a wake and meeting their sexually ambiguous young neighbor.

A call back to a classic kind of comedy filmed in front of a live audience, the show worked well when showing off its camp one-liners about age and relationships.

Hobbit star Ian McKellen has posted an obituary to Margaret Thatcher calling her ideology against gay marriage ‘hypocritical and now pointless’.

McKellen, who is world-famous because of his role as Gandalf in blockbuster films Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, published the post about the late former UK Prime Minister on his website from Montreal.

Sir Derek Jacobi is among several gay entertainers nominated for the 2013 BAFTA TV awards.

He is nominated for Best Leading Actor award for his role in the BBC drama Last Tango In Halifax.

Presenters Alan Carr and Graham Norton have also been named in the nominations list released today (9 April).

Gandalf-actor Ian McKellen will officiate at the wedding ceremony of X-men star Patrick Stewart when he marries singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell.

McKellen announced the news when he was being interviewed on The Jonathan Ross show last Saturday.

'I'm going to marry Patrick,' said McKellen who acts opposite Stewart in X-men. 'I am going to officiate at his wedding.'

McKellen said he has officiated once before for two men at a civil partnership in the UK. 'I was crying my eyes out,' he said.

Motor racing star Sir Stirling Moss has said he does not want a ‘poofter’ to play him in a film.

In an interview where the former Formula One driver made the offensive comments, he said he would like James Bond actor Daniel Craig to portray him.

The 83-year-old said: ‘I hope the actor would be masculine – not a poofter or anything like that. Perhaps the guy from Skyfall.’

A host of celebrities say that AIDS can be overcome through love, by tweeting an image of their blood along with the word 'Love Is In My Blood'.

Wizardly actor and dedicated gay rights campaigner Ian McKellen was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Ulster yesterday. He was asked to deliver a lecture to an invited audience to mark the occasion, and he spoke about the achievements of the gay rights movement in Britain.

'Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out,' McKellen said, BBC News reports.

Gay pop legend Elton John and his partner David Furnish have denied reports they have become fathers for a second time.

Speaking to E! Online, a spokesperson for couple said: ‘Reports that Elton and David have had a second child are false.’

On 10 January, several gossip websites and international newspapers reported the pair added to their family via a surrogate in California.

The anonymous surrogate was alleged to e the same woman who delivered their first son Zachary on Christmas Day 2010.

Two legendary homosexuals are on the covers of this month's FIASCO magazine.

Out actor Sir Ian McKellen photographed by Pip and pop singer Adam Lambert photographed by Miguel Starcevich grace two separate covers and fashion spreads in FIASCO magazine's 23rd issue: the Obsession edition.

In the interview, Adam Lambert recalls his performances with Queen and discusses how gay men feel about his style.

British gay acting legend Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out about how he ‘feared the worst’ after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The 73-year-old Hobbit and X-Men star has revealed he has had it for ‘six or seven years’.

‘You do gulp when you hear the news,’ he told the Daily Mirror. ‘It’s like when you go for an HIV test, you go “Arghh is this the end of the road?”’

With a net worth of over $320 million, you’d figure Sir Elton John would own just about everything he could desire.

Apparently not, as the Tiny Dancer singer has added yet another set of photographs to his legendary collection, from photographer Ross Watson.

The collection, featuring several shots of semi-naked hunks, will be on display in Melbourne, Australia from January.

Watson caught up with Sir Elton and his son Zachary in Melbourne during the singer's sell-out tour of Australia.

Gay pop superstar Elton John and his partner David Furnish are expecting a second baby.

The couple are said to be ‘over the moon’ about the arrival due next year.

John, 65, and Furnish, 50, are thought to be using the surrogate who gave birth to their 23-month-old son Zachary.

As reported by The Sun, a source said: ‘Elton and David love this lady like a sister and they feel indebted to her for life.