A recent New Yorker article about Ian McKellen reports that in a gay rights campaign he was opposed by a journalist named Peregrine Worsthorne. What’s with those British names? Marquess of Queensberry, Peregrine Worsthorne, . . . I just can’t imagine that people with names like this in the U.S. could be anti-gay. Probably more an indication of my lack of imagination than anything else.