'Star Trek Beyond' nfirms that Hika Sulu is gay - The Daily Dot

Contents:

• SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
• SIMON PEGG EXPLAS THE IMPORTANT REASON SULU IS GAY IN ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’
• HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
• ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY

SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY

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.

SIMON PEGG EXPLAS THE IMPORTANT REASON SULU IS GAY IN ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’

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.

HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED

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.

‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY

” 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. One of the “Star Trek” universe’s most beloved characters is revealed to be gay the latt stallment of the inic anchise.