Comments on: George Takei, Star Trek’s Sulu, Discloses Homosexuality

By: Infidel

Infidel — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:22:15 +0000

I'm a ST fan, I didn't know he was gay, Sulu could have been bi, or came out late (he had a daughter at least), and don't call him "Tiny". Actually, ST never really handled homosexuality well, until Babylon 5 did, and that was DS9. As long as Roddenberry (Rest His Soul) was alive nothing marred his characters. There is debate about how TNG never handled the subject squarely (no pun). I got tired of ST's universe where all problems had been solved, so no one had to discuss them on the show.

By: M-tw

M-tw — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:25:09 +0000

Well - I am a more than lukewarm follower of Star Trek and I did not know GEORGE was gay, nor do I care much, but I don't think SULU was gay the NETWORK would not have ALLOWED it.{g} Following Star Trek is not the same as following all the cast and crew, sheesh!

By: Anderson

Anderson — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:18:41 +0000

Well, Star Trek has always been suspiciously into tolerance. And it's downright blasphemous to suggest that Jesus won't have returned by the 23d century or whenever.

By: Slion

Slion — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:00:33 +0000

This is disgusting. Where is Dobson? First we had the gay agenda being promoted in SpongeBob Square Pants--now it is Star Trek. I think a wholesale boycott of Hollywood is in order before the homosexual agenda turns us all into gays.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:19:25 +0000

Well, I was a lukewarm Star Trek watcher and didn't know Sulu was gay. Then again, I'm still trying to grasp that Bob Fosse was straight.

By: sortapundit

sortapundit — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:54:23 +0000

I think he was waiting for Scotty to die before coming out. He wouldn't have taken any of this nancy-boy bullshit. He'd just have taken a few stiff belts of scotch and violently sodomised Takei until he got it out of his system.

But then, Scotty always was an unpredictable psycho.

By: Multiple Mentality

Multiple Mentality — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:42:20 +0000

George Takei comes out

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By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:42:17 +0000

Clearly, given that he has been with Altman for longer than most married couples, his orientation has been an open secret among those who knew him for quite some time.

There's a huge difference between "everyone knows" and "he told everyone." Case in point: Ed Koch. Oh, and wasn't it an "open secret" that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA and that "all her neighbors knew"?

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:25:58 +0000

BFD

By: Everett W.

Everett W. — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:21:06 +0000

Is there any even lukewarm "Star Trek" follower who didn't know this? All the best to the man and his partner but this hardly qualifies as a revelation.

By: Will Franklin

Will Franklin — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:32:30 +0000

That's like Grant Hill disclosing that he's injury-prone. Not exactly a state secret.

By: » Gone Hollywood

» Gone Hollywood — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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