George Takei
George Takei
George Hosato Takeiis an American actor, director, author, and activist. Takei is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek. He also portrayed the character in six Star Trek feature films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 April 1937
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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And the 442nd (Regimental Combat) Team emerged from the European theater as the single most decorated outfit to return from Europe.
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So the history of Star Trek is one directed, guided and determined by the Star Trek fans, and here they are again, asserting themselves.
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The large popular normality is that rigid, constrained normality, ... But there's another natural normality. And you come to realize, 'This is who I am. And by gum, I'm not going to let it be a constraint!'
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I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.
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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.
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By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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