Yaaay! After 21 years of partnership (!ZOMFG!), George Takei is getting gay married! He announced it last week in a powerful blog post referencing his childhood in US forced Japanese internment camps, and saying about his fiancee, “He is my love and I can’t imagine life without him.” Here’s a cute snip from the BBC article:
US actor George Takei is to wed his long-term partner after California lifted its ban on same-sex marriage.
Takei, 71, best known for playing Mr Sulu in Star Trek, said he and Brad Altman were going through the “delicious dilemma” of where to marry. The actor and 54-year-old Mr Altman have been together for 21 years.
“We can have the dignity, as well as all the responsibilities, of marriage. We embrace it all heartily,” Takei wrote on his website. (… read more!)
wow, that’s great to hear! I love George Takei in a whole new way now. and, I had no idea Howard Stern had real human beings on his show. I thought he just threw baloney at porn performer’s asses.
Several times a year George Takei is guest host on the Howard Stern show as the ‘announcer’. He is a funny, caring and gentle soul – with a dash of trusting naivete set loose in a fishbowl of jackals which makes for some of the funniest and most delicious radio I have ever heard. Congrats to George and Brad!