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Yeah, could see that coming a mile away
ok..maybe pink alert.
Beam me up, silly!
LOS ANGELES - George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a sexual 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."
Yeah, could see that coming a mile away
He's gay?!!
"As a kid I loved pirates and Errol Flynn, and my childhood fantasy was to swashbuckle through Sherwood Forest. And in a way Star Trek has fulfilled that dream, if you look upon it as swashbuckling through space."
who cares?
Gay people? In Hollywood???
Wow. What's next, lesbians in the WNBA?
Tomorrow is a top official at the Westminster Kennel Club going to come out?
Top dog?
I'm not encouraging them to give out details like that.
User those pictures are hilarious.
Anyhow, Patrick Stewart was the captain for many a year and is gay.
"From now on, the phaser settings will be changed from "stun" to "stunning" and from "kill" to "lightly bruise"
Tikaei likes guys
and Spock likes ...
what else is new...Scottie beamed both of them, and they didn't call the doc 'Bones' for nothing...
Kirk? he went both ways...and who can blame him, Uhura was a freak, and when she throws the brown suga around, you can't help but try to get a taste...supafreak, i tell you.
and of course...this pic doesn't help.
Thats actually untrue.
Patrick Stewart is straight and is currently married to Wendy Nuess a former Star Trek producer. And she's a woman.
It's his 2nd marriage, he has 2 children from his 1st.
hhahahahhahahah lol..
I didn't find anything on the web stating that his was married.
But, anyhow good lord married men with childern mind you, couldn't be gay.
BTW, he is wonderful at playing a gay man.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
When I was little (like 6) my mom never missed Star Trek and I had a crush on Sulu. Is that weird?
Id ask, why he thinks he has to tell us.
Just freakn be.
Its like its supposed to be the new "cool" thinng.
Guess what, IM GAY!!! So ing what..... Im straight, you dont see me announcing it in a press release.
Just freakin be gay. No one cares.
But nobody's ever denied you housing or job opportunities or tried to beat the crap out of you because you're straight.
"Sulu.. is that your hand on my ass"
"why yes captain.. don't you get lonely on these 5 year missions"...
You're straight?!!!
No ! Better schedule that presser. We had no idea.
Sulu can't be gay! Ask his son JBlaze!
This is why I didn't want to serve on a submarine... little too close quarters for me..
"Damn it Jim!, he's gay not stupid!!"
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