Acrdg to 'Star Trek Beyond,' the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise is nonilly gay.
Contents:
- SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
- GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
- HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
- GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'
- ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY
SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
On Thursday, the Herald Sun revealed that Hika Sulu will be revealed to be gay "Star Trek Beyond," which hs theaters July 22. * gay star trek beyond *
If you’re an avid Star Trek fan, you might’ve heard this qutn before: Star Trek’s kda gay, right?
GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
Whether they were gay or not, they had an openns to their inti that ma a signifint impact durg a time when queer people openly protted agast unlawful opprsn and tradnal genr rol.
HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
Even Gene Rodnberry himself planned to add a gay character to TNG’s ma st the show’s fifth season. In the 2016 film, Star Trek Beyond, Hika Sulu was revealed as the first openly gay Trek character, wh a hband and dghter.
GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'
In Star Trek: Disvery, Emperor Geu is pansexual, Pl Stamets and Hugh Culber are an fluential gay uple nng the engeerg and medil partments, and Michael Burnham ( name and character) is seen by many queer fans as very genr-fluid, even if she she/her pronouns. However, this is not somethg that is unique to Star Trek: Disvery, even if that is the first seri to pict openly gay characters.
‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY
There is an argument that may not be valid, though Gene Rodnberry himself said that before he died, he had planned to troduce gay characters. On Thursday, the Herald Sun announced that the character Hika Sulu will be revealed to be gay Star Trek Beyond, which hs theaters July 22. Gee Takei, who played Sulu the origal show and who has been a proment LGBT activist sce g out as gay jt over a ago, told the Hollywood Reporter that he has been agast revealg the character as gay sce he first heard was unr nsiratn last year.
“I’m lighted that there’s a gay character, ” Takei told THR. He believed ma more sense to create a new character who has always been gay, rather than brgg Sulu out of a prumed closet.
” But he also exprsed a ncern, which he discsed wh L and -wrer Doug Jung, that a new gay character may have been perceived by the dience as a token gay character, “primarily fed by their sexualy. ” Pegg believ Rodnberry’s cisn not to velop a gay character earlier was a product of his time, not of his visn. ” Based on the movie’s timele, the cisn to make Sulu gay do not necsate his havg been the closet, Pegg explas, and prum that there has been an LGBT prence sce the begng of the anchise’s universe.