Mr. Sulu is gay?

George Takei Declares His Homo­sex­u­al­ity… lest you think this is merely a pub­lic­ity stunt to gen­er­ate buzz for the play he is cur­rently star­ring in, there is also this:

The cur­rent social and polit­i­cal cli­mate also moti­vated Takei’s dis­clo­sure, he said.
 
“The world has changed from when I was a young teen feel­ing ashamed for being gay,” he said. “The issue of gay mar­riage is now a polit­i­cal issue. That would have been unthink­able when I was young.”

Full-​speed ahead, Captain.