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6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!

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WHICH ACTORS OM STAR TREK ARE GAY?

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STAR TREK STAR WILSON CZ ON THE SHOW’S QUEER APPEAL AND HOW GAY LOVE N SAVE THE UNIVERSE

Ennis: As a pneer Star Trek, terms of beg an out gay man, playg a gay character, a relatnship wh another man, do you see that the unfoldg of havg non-bary characters like Adira and a trans character, even a ghostly versn, how do that make you feel terms of the craft and and our muny? Disvery, which premiered September of 2017, is notable for beg the first Star Trek seri to feature openly and explicly gay ma characters played by LGBTQ+ actors, like Pl Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp), Dr.

"I never unrstood the worry that people have for me when they're like, 'Well, aren't you aaid that you'll jt play gay rol for the rt of your life?

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So why n't I be exced about always playg gay rol? " "The stak are jt too high for me, not jt for me personally, but for all of our society, our world, " Rapp said of his choice on playg gay rol.

It was more that when I read , I was spired to be brave enough to fally e out, and tell people that I was gay, and tst that my future would be a betiful thg if I was livg openly and eely. Leonard Nemoy himself gave support 1991, sayg, "It is entirely ftg that gays and lbians will appear unobtsively aboard the Enterprise—neher objects of py nor melodramatic attentn.