Posted on 06/05/2014 1:36:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
George Takei said he needed courage and anger to come out as gay and to join the equal rights movement for sexual minorities in the U.S., and he hopes his Japanese counterparts will do the same to make their society more equal.
Takei said he has noticed a movement beginning in Japan, though the country of his ancestry has a long way to go. He said Japanese people need to fight for their own rights and they need to be a bit angry, too. […]
Takei, 77, is in Japan to attend embassy-organized events marking LGBT Pride Month in the U.S. He later toasted gay rights at a reception hosted by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy attended by about 160 people, including Japan's first lady Akie Abe. …
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“Takei, 77, is in Japan to attend embassy-organized events marking LGBT Pride Month in the U.S. He later toasted gay rights at a reception hosted by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy attended by about 160 people...”
You just knew stuff like this would go on when they confirmed an intellectual lightweight like Caroline Kennedy to the position.
What he’s doing is wrong.
“Equal rights”?
What a joke.
Everywhere they go, they insist on being at the front of the line.
I wonder how many times Sulu’s fallen on a sword? Oh, my!
Japan has always had a fundamentally indifferent attitude towards homosexuality than Western nations, but I think that Takei is deluding himself if he thinks there will ever be a “pride” movement of the same character as in the States or Europe.
That sort of public self-aggrandizement is alien to the culture and would be considered shameful, tacky, and pitiful. People would not condemn them for being gay, they just don’t think that way, but they would condemn them for making an ass of themselves in public, disrupting harmony, and bringing shame on their friends, family, and professional associates by their antics.
His ethnicity gives him no credibility on this issue. He simply does not know Japan well enough to make that kind of statement.
“UHF” ping !! Loved that quirky movie.
Great, man on man anal & oral sex pride in Japan, that is what we’re really talking about here isn’t it? This world is just becoming more and more enlightened.
Excuse me, I gotta go puke.
Very much doubt it. Maybe a couple of years ago, but nationalist fervor is growing in Japan as a result of Chinese incursions. With a heavily patriarchical tradition, its not fertile ground for the homos. They’d be better going after Bhutan really.
Worthless on Star Trek...worthless everywhere else.
Japan’s first lady is endorsing sodomy? Foul.
Who knows. I’ve said prayers for all of them and it’s in Gods hands now. I make jokes by instinct but in the end I hand it to the Almighty. My heart goes out to all of them, especially a 16 year old girl who was raised in confusion.
16 and female is hard enough under the best circumstances. I wish you all the best.
After all the money I spent trying to buy up every copy of my picture...and it seems I missed one...
Damn.
;)
UHF is probably one of the funniest weirdest movies ever made.
To this day whenever we go past a funeral parlor one of my kids asks if we can stop at the salad bar...
Because of course Japan doesn’t have enough trouble reproducing already.
The idea of that wrinkled up nobody George Takei being a homo is just ... creepy. He was the only character from Star Trek I had no respect for.
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