George Takei sees gay pride beginning in Japan

Associated Press ^ | Jun 5, 2014 11:12 AM EDT | Mari Yamaguchi

[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. …

[Olog-hai]

Uh, what? The leader in “yaoi/yuri” fiction, never mind the androgynous characters in 1970s anime? You sure, Tagei-san?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The world-wide self-inflicted genocide is picking up steam.

[nickcarraway]

gayjin?

[a fool in paradise]

Sees it beginning to what?

[Billthedrill]

George, buddy, let me clue you - they've been places you've never even heard of on that issue. Yaoi hentai - in Japanese it's, ah, "romantic comics". OK, that's a VERY VERY VERY rough translation...

[Olog-hai]

Sōdesu.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Still not understanding the "pride" one has by identifying oneself first, by how they behave sexually, in private.

It's important that I know how they do it though, while at the same time, they tell me their sexual behavior is none of my business.

[dead]

[GeronL]

Japan is pervert-land after all

[Constitution Day]

I'm not surprised in the least.

[lbryce]

I’ve seen him on Comedy Central roasting William Shatner. The flaming-est flaming flamingo ever.

[Olog-hai]

Never mind mainstream anime characters such as Berg Katse, who was on broadcast NTV in the 1970s.

[Norm Lenhart]

Yea I think GT is a bit forgetful about a big chunk of Japan’s sexuality.

Oh my! indeed. See “Urotskudoji - Legend of the Overfiend”

[lbryce]

That William Shatner image. Priceless.

[longtermmemmory]

he, along with nuSpock, have ruined star trek. (not to mention jj abrams turning star trek into star wars lite)

he should have stayed in the closet

[Norm Lenhart]

They can’t. to build their ‘culture’ they must destroy ours.

[gaijin]

You know what the OLDEST foreign perception of Japan is?

“Japan is now at a CROSSROADS —it is JUST about to change..!”

A very long line of breathless activists of every stripe have been hyperventilating this dreck for DECADES —probably for centuries.

It doesn’t mean it’s a bad place at all, but you know what? Japan is NOT about to undergo some magical metamorphosis and turn into a mini-America with sex robots.

This is the oldest B.S. in the world.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LOL! Oh myyyyy!

[Yo-Yo]

[Red Badger]

He likes going where no man has gone before.....................