'Back then, you did not advertise your sexuality, and if you wanted to be open about it, you went to a private place. He was even hush hush about his sexuality years later in the 1980s. When asked what it was like coming to New York to purse his dreams of becoming an actor in 1967, McKellen said he had to declare on his visa form that he wasn't gay. That's a much longer process,' McKellen said. So the changes, they are person by person. Still, there are people in the United States who will be feeling lonely and misunderstood in being gay. Of course, you are still left with the attitudes which underlie those laws. 'You make your arguments, and when you are right about them, as we are, eventually people come around and people change. Rainbow: Following a night of rain, people place balloons in a big rainbow while they get ready to take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in New York
