Miriam Margolyes for BritishVogue.Photo:Tim Walker
Tim Walker
Miriam Margolyesis celebrating herPride.In anew cover storyfor BritishVogue’sPride July issue, the 82-year-oldHarry Potteractress opened up about coming out as a lesbian in 1966 and being part of the LGBTQ community.“I think gay people are very lucky, because we are not conventional, we are a group slightly apart," she told the magazine. “It gives us an edge. We’re good artists, we’re good musicians.““And I like being gay. I wouldn’t want to be straight for anything,” Margolyes added.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Miriam Margolyes on the cover of BritishVogue.Tim WalkerTheBAFTA Awardwinner also told BritishVoguethat she “never had any shame about being gay or anything really.““I knew it wasn’t criminal because it was me. I couldn’t be criminal,” Margolyes explained.She also loved her parents despite her belief that neither ever accepted hersexuality, with her mother even forcing her to swear on the Torah that she would never have sex with a woman again, according to the magazine.“It hurt them and I don’t want to hurt people,” Margolyes said, with BritishVoguenoting that she regrets having come out to them at all.Miriam Margolyes at her first-ever Pride parade in 2022.ABCMargolyes and her partner, Heather Sutherland, have been together for 54 years after first meeting while Margolyes was trying to break into the larger acting scene following her college graduation.As for Pride marches, the actress — whoattended her first-ever Pride parade last year— told the magazine she appreciates seeing “uninhibited young enjoying themselves.“When it comes to her own civil partnership with Sutherland, Margolyes said, “Gay people have the luck to be able to fashion the relationship they want. It’s much more flexible for us."“I think we have more freedom than [straight people] do. Particularly gay boys, they’re always f—ing everything. It’s amazing. I don’t know how they get away with it,” she quipped.See Margolyes' full feature in the July issue of BritishVogue, available via digital download and on newsstands June 20.
Miriam Margolyesis celebrating herPride.
In anew cover storyfor BritishVogue’sPride July issue, the 82-year-oldHarry Potteractress opened up about coming out as a lesbian in 1966 and being part of the LGBTQ community.
“I think gay people are very lucky, because we are not conventional, we are a group slightly apart,” she told the magazine. “It gives us an edge. We’re good artists, we’re good musicians.”
“And I like being gay. I wouldn’t want to be straight for anything,” Margolyes added.
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Miriam Margolyes on the cover of BritishVogue.Tim Walker
TheBAFTA Awardwinner also told BritishVoguethat she “never had any shame about being gay or anything really.”
“I knew it wasn’t criminal because it was me. I couldn’t be criminal,” Margolyes explained.
She also loved her parents despite her belief that neither ever accepted hersexuality, with her mother even forcing her to swear on the Torah that she would never have sex with a woman again, according to the magazine.
“It hurt them and I don’t want to hurt people,” Margolyes said, with BritishVoguenoting that she regrets having come out to them at all.
Miriam Margolyes at her first-ever Pride parade in 2022.ABC
Margolyes and her partner, Heather Sutherland, have been together for 54 years after first meeting while Margolyes was trying to break into the larger acting scene following her college graduation.
As for Pride marches, the actress — whoattended her first-ever Pride parade last year— told the magazine she appreciates seeing “uninhibited young enjoying themselves.”
When it comes to her own civil partnership with Sutherland, Margolyes said, “Gay people have the luck to be able to fashion the relationship they want. It’s much more flexible for us.”
“I think we have more freedom than [straight people] do. Particularly gay boys, they’re always f—ing everything. It’s amazing. I don’t know how they get away with it,” she quipped.
See Margolyes' full feature in the July issue of BritishVogue, available via digital download and on newsstands June 20.
source: people.com
