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10-29-2005, 02:34 AM
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Star Trek's George Takei ( Mr. Sulu ) comes out.....
'Star Trek' Actor George Takei Comes Out
By Associated Press
Fri Oct 28, 10:22 AM
LOS ANGELES - George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.
Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality.
Takei described the character as a "very contained but turbulently frustrated man." The play opened Wednesday at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles, the same day that Frontiers magazine featured a story on Takei's coming out.
The current social and political climate also motivated Takei's disclosure, he said.
"The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay," he said. "The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young."
The 68-year-old actor said he and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years.
Takei, a Japanese-American who lived in a U.S. internment camp from age 4 to 8, said he grew up feeling ashamed of his ethnicity and sexuality. He likened prejudice against gays to racial segregation.
"It's against basic decency and what American values stand for," he said.
Takei joined the "Star Trek" cast in 1966 as Hikaru Sulu, a character he played for three seasons on television and in six subsequent films. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986.
A community activist, Takei ran for the Los Angeles City Council in 1973. He serves on the advisory committee of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program and is chairman of East West Players, the theater company producing "Equus."
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
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10-29-2005, 02:48 AM
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Re: Star Trek's George Takei ( Mr. Sulu ) comes out.....
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"It's against basic decency and what American values stand for," he said.
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Please don't take this as a criticism of ZetaPhi708's decision to post this, but I sincerely hope that sometime in the future we get past the point that it is "newsworthy" to report every celebrity who announces/confirms/admits that he/she is gay.
It's a fact of life. So be it. It's their business and something I really don't need to know.
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10-29-2005, 03:15 AM
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I hope that I did not offend anyone with this post.
Being a Star Trek fan, I thought this was an interesting article and I was really totally surprised that he was gay. Doesn't bother me any. He is still Mr. Sulu to me.....
In Star Trek lore, there is a phrase: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations".
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10-29-2005, 03:21 AM
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I hope that I did not offend anyone with this post.
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I don't think you did. There have been a lot of these post recently. My hope simply is that we get to the point that this kind story is no longer news.
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10-29-2005, 09:04 AM
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im offended please delete this
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10-29-2005, 10:27 AM
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As I put it less-than succinctly on another board...
"Sulu likes to bu-fu? BFD."
Doesn't bother or offend me in the least. To each his own.
P.S. And the thread stays. (I don't have mod edit privileges on this subforum anyway, so what could I do?)
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10-29-2005, 11:50 AM
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im offended please delete this
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Oh...I thought so damn cool wanted his post deleted. After all, he said "delete this."
(Laughing internally)
Anyway, I'm not a mod here either or I would have been happy to delete his post.
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10-30-2005, 12:24 AM
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You need to cool your jets.
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