LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- 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.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/1....ap/index.html
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I can hear the late night joke writers drooling in the back office on this one.
Now we know why Cpt Kirk stated back in the 60's,
"to boldly go where no man has gone before !!! "
Apparently Sulu had... and this Cpt Kirks' cry for help to come out of the closet
