Editing Rupert Everett (section)

===Political views===
Everett was a patron of the [[British Monarchist Society and Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Patrons {{!}} British Monarchist Society and Foundation|url = http://bmsf.org.uk/about-us/patrons/|website = bmsf.org.uk|access-date = 2 September 2015}}</ref>

In 2006, as a homeowner in the central London area of [[Bloomsbury]], he supported a campaign to prevent the establishment of a local [[Starbucks]] branch and referred to the global chain as a "cancer". He protested with 1,000 other residents, and the group compiled a petition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rupert Everett: 'Starbucks Is Spreading Like a Cancer'|url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/18/rupert_everett_starbucks_is_spreading_li|work=Starpulse|publisher=Starpulse.com|access-date=13 March 2014|date=18 August 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313213928/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/18/rupert_everett_starbucks_is_spreading_li|archive-date=13 March 2014}}</ref>

In 2013, Everett worked on the production of a documentary on [[sex work]] for Channel 4 that included the issue of criminalisation. During and after its filming, he contributed to the discourse on prostitution legislation in the UK. In October 2013, he signed an open letter from the [[English Collective of Prostitutes]] and Queer Strike—alongside groups such as the Association of Trade Union Councils, [[Sex Worker Open University]], Left Front Art – Radical Progressive Queers, Queer Resistance, and Queers Against the Cuts—to oppose the adoption of the "Swedish model", whereby the clients of sex workers (though not the workers themselves) are criminalised.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rupert Everett backs campaign against criminalising prostitution|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/10/11/rupert-everett-backs-campaign-against-criminalising-prostitution/|work=PinkNews|access-date=13 March 2014|author=Scott Roberts|date=11 October 2013}}</ref>

Everett continued his participation in the sex-work legislation debate in 2014, writing a long-form piece for ''[[The Guardian]]'' and appearing on the BBC One programme ''This Week''.<ref name="This">{{cite web|title=Rupert Everett's call to legalise prostitution|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tfkvx|work=BBC One|access-date=13 March 2014|format=Video upload|date=7 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="Land">{{cite news|title=Rupert Everett in defence of prostitutes: 'There is a land grab going on'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/19/rupert-everett-in-defence-of-prostitutes|access-date=13 March 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 January 2014|author=Rupert Everett}}</ref> He also joined protesters in a demonstration outside the offices of [[Soho Estates]], a major property company that owns properties on Soho's Walkers Court, where many sex workers are based.

In 2012, Everett said in an interview regarding same-sex marriage: "But why do we want to get married in churches? I don't understand that, myself, personally. I ''loathe'' heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the fucking wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It's grotesque. It's just hideous. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Aitkenhead |first=Decca |date=28 September 2012 |title=Rupert Everett: the queen of mean |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/28/rupert-everett-memoir-vanished-years |access-date=20 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> A few days after the release of the interview, he was criticised<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 September 2012 |title=Outcry As Gay Actor Rupert Everett Says: 'I Can't Think Of Anything Worse Than Being Brought Up By Two Gay Dads' |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/18/outcry-as-gay-actor-rupert-everett-says-i-can-t-think-of-anything-worse-than-being-brought-up-by-two-gay-dads_n_7374242.html |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=HuffPost}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McCormick |first=Joseph Patrick |date=16 September 2012 |title=Rupert Everett: Gay parents? I can't think of anything worse |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2012/09/16/rupert-everett-gay-parents-i-cant-think-of-anything-worse/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=PinkNews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Richard |date=20 November 2023 |title=Two gay dads? Bad luck, baby |newspaper=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/two-gay-dads-bad-luck-baby-g7kzffxnr9w |access-date=20 November 2023 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref> for the following remark: "I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads". He went on to explain that "[f]or me, being gay was about wanting to do the opposite of the straight world, so I think that's where my problems in this particular area come from. [...] But that's me, just me. I'm not having a go at gay couples who do. I think if Elton and David want to have babies, that's wonderful. I think we should all do what we want."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Aitkenhead |first=Decca |date=28 September 2012 |title=Rupert Everett: the queen of mean |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/28/rupert-everett-memoir-vanished-years |access-date=20 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Everett has also disclosed that he identified as [[transgender]] during his childhood and dressed as a girl from age 6 to 14. When he turned 15, he ceased to identify as female and embraced his identity as a [[gay man]]. He has expressed opposition to the use of [[hormone replacement therapy|hormones]] on children, saying that parents who offered the possibility of such a [[Gender transition|transition]] to their children were "scary".<ref name="Former Transgender">{{cite news|title=Rupert Everett says Caitlyn Jenner made 'a terrible mistake' by transitioning
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rupert-everett-says-caitlyn-jenner-made-terrible-mistake-transitioning-a7090521.html |access-date=2 October 2020 |newspaper=Independent |date=19 June 2016 |first=Maya |last=Oppenheim}}</ref>

Everett expressed his opposition to [[cancel culture]] in a 2020 interview with ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rupert Everett likens social media to 'the Stasi' |url=https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/national-news/18769724.rupert-everett-likens-social-media-the-stasi/ |website=largsandmillportnews.com|date=4 October 2020 }}</ref>