Gee Takei Don’t Thk Gay Sulu Scene 'Star Trek Beyond' Was Gay Enough

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On Thursday, the Herald Sun revealed that Hika Sulu will be revealed to be gay "Star Trek Beyond," which hs theaters July 22.

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GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'

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The reboot versn of Sulu is gay, we learned "Beyond, " the third of the new movi.

Takei has said publicly he is agast the ia of Sulu beg gay, and he had plenty to say about here at the 50th anniversary Star Trek nventn Las Vegas. Takei would have preferred for the reboot filmmakers to create a new gay character.

STAR TREK BEYOND'S GAY KISS SCENE WAS CUT

" Takei says he has agreed to disagree on the issue of gay Sulu wh the movie's -wrer Simon Pegg, wh whom he has exchanged emails.

FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS

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.

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

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. One change particular that has garnered a lot of media attentn over the past few weeks is the nfirmatn of the anchise's first gay character. This news weeks after the public reveal that Sulu will be the anchise's first gay character:.

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

More than halfway through Pri Month, the LBGT+ staff here at TrekMovie thought the perfect time to brg a ltle gayns to your life. And what better way to unwd durg the tough tim than wh a gay Star Trek marathon? But, spe Trek not havg any openly gay characters for s first five s, there’s a lot of LGBT+ love to go around.

This isn’t exactly a “rah rah we love the gays” moment, but ’s too funny not to clu.

‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY

Jadzia Normaliz Gay Romance DS9’s “Rul of Acquisn”. While you uld argue that this isn’t a gay Trek moment ( lerally isn’t—that’s the pot of the scene), ’s still a msage about the general acceptance of LGBT+ people the 24th century. It’s so monplace that beg gay is ls of an issue for Pel than beg a woman is.

While Dax was already one of the most socially liberal characters Star Trek, ’s still a nice feelg to see someone assumed to be gay get treated like a normal person. Jt bee ’s one of Trek’s “gayt moments” don’t mean ’s one of our favore on. In realy, we’re jt as discerng as straight or gay folks—’s jt that genr don’t terme whether or not we are attracted to someone.

GEE TAKEI DON’T THK THE GAY SULU SCENE WAS GAY ENOUGH

Not all gay moments are great moments…. Garak is gay!

ZACHARY QUTO DEFENDS SULU BEG GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND'

Andrew Robson gave Garak such chaotic gay energy that me through like twenty pounds of prosthetics. This was a big moment Star Trek history: the first openly gay character Star Trek.

JOHN CHO: GAY KISS WAS CUT OM STAR TREK BEYOND

And, as we’ve monstrated here, there have been clearly LGBT+ characters Trek before, but that don’t tract om the importance of this moment, this small blk-and-you-miss- moment between Sulu, his hband, and their dghter that means fally, ’s official: Star Trek has a gay character! ) The origal Hika Sulu, Gee Takei (who is gay himself) took issue wh makg Sulu gay Beyond. Sulu’s brief fatherly moment Star Trek Beyond may have been the first stance of an openly gay character on Trek, but there is no nyg that Jadzia Dax was the first openly LGBT+ (emphasis on the pl) character on Star Trek.

Ined, Dax’s entire existence uld fill this sectn, but we’ll also highlight a uple of key “gay” Dax moments throughout Deep Space Ne. The first is the famo “gay kiss.

WHY STAR TREK BEYOND COULDN’T SIMPLY SHOW A GAY COUPLE BEG GAY

This is WAY too gay not to mentn. In the end, this episo is basilly Star Trek acknowledgg that self wasn’t ready to be open to gay characters, when Beverly adms that her unwillgns to nsir ntug a relatnship after her boyiend transned is her own failg.

GEE TAKEI REVEALS THE FULL STORY BEHD HIS COMMENTS ON GAY SULU

Comg at the number one top gayt moment Star Trek uldn’t be anythg except for the relatnship between Hugh Culber and Pl Stamets. The first openly gay characters on a Star Trek televisn show. Not jt a gay moment, but a full-on lovg gay relatnship and wh characters that aren’t jt tired old stereotyp!

GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: “I THK IT’S REALLY UNFORTUNATE”

Star Trek Beyond lighted fans earlier this month when the film's director and screenwrer announced that the sci-fi anchise would feature s first openly gay movie boldly went where no other movie the anchise has gone before, and acrdg to actor John Cho, who plays openly gay Capta Hika Sulu the new film, there was an even bolr scene that didn't make the fal cut. Abrams' film reboot: Star Trek revealed a lengthy terview wh that a scene featurg Sulu and his hband, played by screenwrer Doug Jung, kissg was shot but the moment was left out of the down for vio Star Trek Beyond went where no other movie the anchise has gone before, and acrdg to actor John Cho (left), who plays openly gay Capta Hika Sulu the new film, there was an even bolr scene that didn't make the fal cut.

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