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Star Trek User ID: 2433 United States 10/27/2005 10:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Bones:"He´s a Packer Jim." Scotty:"He loves those big Photon torpedoes Cpt´n.." Spock:"He came on to me at the campfire we had at Aragon. What a Beast." Kirk:"Goddamned Navy Fag." ...................................... George Takei Declares His Homosexuality
(LOS ANGELES - George Takei, best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in "Star Trek," came out as homosexual in the current issue of a magazine covering the Los Angeles 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 1973 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." |
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GAMESTER OF TRISKELLION User ID: 284 United States 10/27/2005 10:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Say it ain´t so, Sulu was like the second most macho guy on the show. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1163 United States 10/27/2005 10:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) You can bet all the Japanese were fed ´interrogation food´ at the internment camp. As a side result the little kid was an easy target for sexual sharks as he grew up. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 2433 United States 10/27/2005 10:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) I always liked that trashy blonde with the big hair in that Triskellion episode. |
Fantasia
User ID: 3539 United States 10/27/2005 10:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Whatever gets him off.... Frodo failed, Bush has the ring! |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 2433 United States 10/27/2005 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) You would fit in well on an island of survivors Fantasia, you seem so flexible... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 36861 United States 10/27/2005 10:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Shit |
yep User ID: 15814 United States 10/27/2005 11:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Chekov - "Vy do I hav to sit next to him?" |
warp User ID: 15814 United States 10/27/2005 11:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) So when Sulu was spouting off what warp they were going... secretly, in his mind, he was thinkingn warp 1 inch, warp two inch, warp three inch.... warp TEN INCH... |
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Dino1
User ID: 5088 United States 10/27/2005 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) bummer - cool guy though - balls to admit it |
Dr Strange
User ID: 34598 United States 10/27/2005 11:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Who cares ???!!!!! He is still a great guy as far as im concerned. And Star Trek was the best thing that EVER came from tv. Best Ever !!! Warp Speed. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 36925 United States 10/27/2005 11:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) I guess Mr. Sulu Likes Cling-Ons Get it?? |
Mr. Jackal User ID: 3292 United States 10/28/2005 12:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Am I the only one that could tell? No one else picked up on those "delicate" manerisms??? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 36945 Canada 10/28/2005 12:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) gives a whole new meaning the line: "To boldly go where no man has gone b-4." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8077 United States 10/28/2005 02:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) 1973?
"Takei joined the "Star Trek" cast in 1973 as Hikaru Sulu"
Bull Shit!
The show wasn´t on in 1973, except in reruns.
Maybe the entire article is a hoax. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35344 United States 10/28/2005 03:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Why does it bother people so much that others could be gay? |
AC 2741
User ID: 579 United Kingdom 10/28/2005 04:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) 10010
that bird from the gamesters of triskelion ended up in porn movies.
her name is Angelique Pettyjohn.
she died in 1992 |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35320 Canada 10/28/2005 04:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) Back in the late seventies a repairman from Sears came out to fix my washing machine. He was a real nice Japanese-American guy. Somehow I got him to reveal that he lived, as a child, in one of the internment camps in California, here. I don´t remember specifically what he told me, I just have this deep understanding of the humiliation, misery and anger this forced on these people. I got tears, right now, thinking about it.
If you think about it, the displaced black folks of the Gulf Coast are being treated very similarly. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35320 Canada 10/28/2005 04:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) And on another tack; I remember reading somewhere not too long ago that it was found that over 80% of pedophiles are Star Trek Fans. You can´t turn that around and say most Trekkies are child molesters, but the reverse of that is true.
The greatest thing about gay men is they never try to fuck your wife. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15610 United States 10/28/2005 06:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) SHOCKING! (sarcasm) |
XVIPER User ID: 276 United States 10/28/2005 09:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) well that didn´t take a brain surgeon to figure that one out... Scotty beam me up... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 190 United States 10/28/2005 11:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: George Takei Declares His Homosexuality(Sulu) George Takei:
"Beam it up me, Scotty"
"Course laid in to planet fag"
"I love Klingons"
"Those green Orion Slave Women are disgusting"
"Trouble with Fudgepackers"
"Set Phasers to Pink"
"Sir, I recommend a mission to Uranus" |
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