Gay wedding for Star Trek's Takei

BBC News ^ | May 20, 2008

[PROCON]

US actor George Takei is to wed his long-term partner after California lifted its ban on same-sex marriage.

Takei, 71, best known for playing Mr Sulu in Star Trek, said he and Brad Altman were going through the "delicious dilemma" of where to marry.

The actor and 54-year-old Mr Altman have been together for 21 years.

"We can have the dignity, as well as all the responsibilities, of marriage. We embrace it all heartily," Takei wrote on his website.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Takei wants to go where no man has gone before. Beam me up, Scotty. This planet is a madhouse!

[Puppage]

What would Sulu do?

Well, I guess we know now.

[Thebaddog]

I always thought he had a funny smile when Kirk told him he had the conn.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“...To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

???

[Eye On The Left]

http://www.georgetakei.com/

[PetroniusMaximus]

Dang, you beat me.

[Red Badger]

Takei wants to go where no man has gone before.

Yeah right.......;^\

[MarineBrat]

The only place I’ve ever seen him besides Star Trek is on a Comedy Central roast of William Shatner. He’s a vulgar disgusting freak and I wouldn’t allow him within 10 feet of anyone in my family.

[Huck]

Hilarious. I used to be against gay marriage. Now I’m thinking we should let ‘em do it and make fools of themselves.

[Always Right]

Just because Uhura wouldn't sleep with him.

[Eye On The Left]

[madison10]

Awwww...aren’t they cute?

[fungoking]

I thought it was Spock and Kirk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYZOgO_hE3E

[snarks_when_bored]

Even gay celebrities glom onto younger partners.

[Holicheese]

Picking a spot for a wedding really is a “delicious dilemma”! Could he be any more gay?

[manapua]

I frankly don’t care either way and wish him the best. That said, I find it curious... I thought that the Left wanted the US to stop doing things that upset the Mohammedans.

[Slapshot68]

Set gaysers to stun!

[Free ThinkerNY]

That’s hilarious!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Wasn’t Sulu in charge of managing the Impulse System? We need Scotty to run a full diagnostic.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Delicious!

[Defiant]

Are his parents ok with him marrying a Jew?

[Eye On The Left]

[woollyone]

“He’s gay Jim”

[LetsRok]

There are no gay characters in the Star Trek franchise because by the time StarFleet was formed, homosexuality was cured.

[GSWarrior]

It gets lonely in outer space.

[GSWarrior]

It gets lonely in outer space.

[MaxMax]

LMAO, I’d swear that was said on star trek.

[ConservaTexan]

I guess Sulu and his ‘partner’ have an entirely different trouble with tribbles.

[fredhead]

I’ve seen him in one other place. He was one of John Wayne’s co-stars in “The Green Berets.”

I sometimes wonder if Duke knew about Takei, or about Rock Hudson, his co-star in “The Undefeated.”

[Eye On The Left]

George (Sulu) Takei in 'Secret Talents of the Stars'

By CRISTINA KINON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 4:00 AM

Vote for George Takei and his country-singing skills on Tuesday night's premiere of "Secret Talents of the Stars" (CBS/Ch.2, 10 p.m.), and he may be convinced to pursue a new line of work.

"If I survive this, who knows what doors could open," Takei told the Daily News. "I could go on tour, have a whole new career; we shall see.

"We will boldly go where we've never gone before."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/04/08/2008-04-08_sulu_sings_a_solo_in_secret_talents_trek.html

[PzLdr]

Not tribbles. Gerbils.

[redhead]

"I’ve seen him in one other place. He was one of John Wayne’s co-stars in “The Green Berets.” I sometimes wonder if Duke knew about Takei, or about Rock Hudson, his co-star in “The Undefeated.”"

He was in one other film that I can recall. A misbegotten, better forgotten space western, in which he played the drunken town doctor role. The film was called "Oblivion." and it was as weird as it was awful.

[Tex Pete]

That’s pronounced “Ta-GAY.”

[hoagy62]

iI sometimes wonder if Duke knew about Takei, or about Rock Hudson, his co-star in “The Undefeated.”

I doubt it. Back in the Duke's day, at least in the middle years, 'the love that dare not speak it's name" was a hush-hush thing. You kept it quiet...or else.

[B-Chan]

Source

[CDHart]

I never could stand Rock Hudson, even when everyone seemed to think he was so wonderful. I finally found out why.

Carolyn

[fredhead]

I think that there were some back then who were known, or at least heavily suspected. Two that come to mind were Liberace and Peter Lorre.

[kenth]

Or, boldly go where quite a few men have gone before...

[Eye On The Left]

I wonder if this guy knew about Gomer Pyle?

[swain_forkbeard]

The Rock was decent in Ice Station Zebra. I’m having a hard time thinking of another Rock Hudson movie I find watchable.

[swain_forkbeard]

New meaning for “The Naked Time”.

[hoagy62]

I think Liberace was an ‘open secret’. No one cared because he was excellent at what he did. He didn’t speak to the press about his orientation...he didn’t need to. Women thought he was cute, men respected his talent, even if they saw something ‘odd’ about him. He didn’t flaunt his gayness as in shoving it in your face to get you to agree with him or accept him.

Find some of his old shows and watch the guy play. He was one of the best on the planet, bar none.

As for Peter Lorre...heck, I didn’t know!

[Eye On The Left]

What the heck was that episode about anyway?

[stanz]

Wikipedia states that Peter Lorre (born Lazlo Lowenstein) was married 3 times and had a daughter. I never heard anything about his being gay.

[Eye On The Left]

"Takei, 71, best known for playing Mr Sulu in Star Trek, said he and Brad Altman were going through the "delicious dilemma" of where to marry."

[polymuser]

There are no gay characters in the Star Trek franchise because by the time StarFleet was formed, homosexuality was cured.

I believe they used Transporter Special Protocol H to cure it.

[Larebil]

The episode where a virus makes people go crazy.

I forget the exact name. The remade it in the next generation episode and link it to the original 66 episode.

I forget how they purge the virus. Been so long since I have seen that one.
Tekei was also in a fascinating Twilight Zone episode where he played a grounds keeper possessed by a WWII samurai sword. It was considered controversial.
Fascinating episode though.

[Vaduz]

Fudge

[DCBurgess58]

“These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise... It’s five year mission... to seek out new worlds and new civilizations... to boldly go where no man has gone before... Oh, except for Mr. Sulu, he’d be happy just to get off on Uranus.”