I always wondered why he wore those flamboyant neck scarfs in the movies!

George Takei, ‘Mr. Sulu,’ says he’s gay
Actor and partner have been together for 18 years

Damian Dovarganes / Ap File
Actor George Takei, shown greeting a crowd with the Vulcan greeting, has come out as gay.


Updated: 11:11 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2005

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.

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Ok...that proves what I always thought too...

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, I guess he and the Star Trek nerds have something in common now, not getting any action from females.

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I saw the story on the news characterized with "What you never thought about Mr. Sulu" - right, another completely incorrect news story. Who didn't know Mr. Sulu was gay?

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-livin' in the terminally flippant zone

It was all that "to boldly go where no man has . . ." talk.

Mr. Sulu, once we passed Uranus . . . engage the warp drive . . .

Now we know why he always had the grin standing behind Captain Kirk.....

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

It was always pretty obvious that he and Chekov were the Matt Damon and Ben Aflack of Starfleet.

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Sooooo, Sulu is a pillow biter.......perhaps only youthful naivete prevented me from noticing the charachteristic lilt of the fem. variant of flamers. Asi es la vida, pues.

He was always considered a "versatile"actor,to borrow a word adopted by the limp wristed fraternity.

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No surprise there.

Shouldn't even be news afaik.

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A bit of homophobia? They say Leonardo daVinci was gay.

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Not at all! so was Plato,Julius Caesar,Edward II,James I,Sir Francis Bacon,Prince Eugene of Savoy and your own William of Orange...........

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why do you say that?

Now we know why he was so fond of saying "Oh my" in such a deep voice....

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

You never saw Star Trek? George Takei was the Asian navigator

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche