Gee Takei's Rponse to TN's "Don't Say Gay" Bill | WIRED

Contents:

• GEE TAKEI OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO “DON'T SAY GAY” BILL
• GEE TAKEI SOUNDS OFF ON TRANS BATHROOMS, 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• GEE TAKEI'S RPONSE TO TN'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL
• GEE TAKEI VS. TENNSEE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL
• GEE TAKEI VS. TENNSEE’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• ARIANA GRAN AND MORE CELEBS SLAM PASSAGE OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GEE TAKEI VS. TENNSEE’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

GEE TAKEI OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO “DON'T SAY GAY” BILL

Tennsee's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill, which passed that state's Senate Friday, prompted Gee Takei to offer a classroom alternative. "It's premised on the misguid belief that by not talkg about gay people, they n simply make disappear, " said Takei. Takei's suggtn: "Any time you need to say the word, 'gay, ' you n simply say, 'Takei.

GEE TAKEI SOUNDS OFF ON TRANS BATHROOMS, 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Even homophobic slurs don't seem as hurtful if you say, 'That's sooo Takei. His hband, Brad Altman, also attend the Apollo 11 gala at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space 2011, when Stacey Campfield, then a state senator Tennsee, attempted to get legislatn for his "Don't Say Gay" bill, Takei fought back. The actor ridiculed Campfield for tryg "to crimalize schoolteachers g the word 'gay.

GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68

'"Kennerly: Flh transgenr bathroom non-issueThe bill — and the issue — still crops up, so Takei has a solutn: "I said my name Takei, surname Takei rhym wh 'OK' as well as 'gay.

GEE TAKEI'S RPONSE TO TN'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL

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Bee Schwarzenegger prented himself as a movie star who had worked and was iends wh gays and lbians, many of whom voted for him, but then vetoed that bill, ” Takei said. “I was so angry that I spoke to the prs for the first time as a gay man at the age of 68. “I learned at a young age that you uldn’t be an openly gay actor and hope to be employed, ” Takei said.

GEE TAKEI VS. TENNSEE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL

Wh bat around school textbooks and the passg of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida, some on the far right are creasgly accg members of the LGBTQ muny of wantg to “groom” children. He remd people about how gay kids are ually brought up a wholly heterosexual environment and do nothg to change their sexualy.

GEE TAKEI VS. TENNSEE’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

Still gay as a rabow sprkle-vered cupke, ” he said. Takei followed up wh a send tweet sayg, “The only thgs ‘gay groomg’ will ever do to a straight child will be better hygiene and more sirabily om the other sex.

ARIANA GRAN AND MORE CELEBS SLAM PASSAGE OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

The only thgs “gay groomg” will ever do to a straight child will be better hygiene and more sirabily om the other sex. I heard a great analogy the other day about the “pray the gay away” approach~ How much prayer would take for a straight person to turn gay?? I know a gay uple, they have kids, and they are the most rpectful kids I have ever met.

If that’s “gay groomg” let’s have more of that please, the world will be a better place. I’ve been around gay men and didn’t “groom” me for anythg. They keep sistg that beg gay is a choice and one n choose to be straight.

GEE TAKEI VS. TENNSEE’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

I’d like them to try to choose to be gay. I had gay iends and gay teachers. I’m 52 and still not gay.

I was raised by lbians sce I was 2, so they had AMPLE time to “groom” me for the gay life. There is a new law tryg to be passed the Tennsee state ernment that would prohib teachg about homosexualy public school.

Gee Takei has an unual solutn if this bill do so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill has been gettg a lot of attentn the prs lately.