We don't know what it is about Sir Ian McKellen that makes everyone want to give him high honors. First the Queen of England knighted him, and now the governor of Georgia has given him the honorary title of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. army. He has the certificate hanging on his wall.

The only problem, Ian McKellen is much more openly gay than the officer who was outed at a gay marriage rally this month. In Ian's words, "So inadvertently, they made me the poster child for having openly gay people in the military."

McKellen breaks Pentagon gay policy [PinkNews]