George Takei: Transforming Shame to Pride

Title: George Takei: Transforming Shame to Pride

Description: "Star Trek" actor George Takei (Sulu) tells of his two life journeys toward self-acceptance of his identities as a Japanese-American and as a gay man. Takei and his family spent his early years in a WW II-era California internment camp, "not because of anything we'd done, but because we looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor." As a pre-teen in grammar school, he came into an awareness of his gay identitity. While "out" to a select number of his close friends (including some of his Star Trek castmates), Takei delayed a more public coming out until October of 2005, when he declared his love for his life partner of 19 years, Brad Altman, to protest Gov. Schwarzenneger's veto of a gay marriage bill.

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