{"id":16069,"date":"2012-03-26T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=16069"},"modified":"2012-03-26T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:08:33","slug":"takei-responses-to-coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/03\/takei-responses-to-coming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei: Responses To Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16072\" title=\"TakeiSulu022112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TakeiSulu022112.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>George Takei<\/strong> came out in 2005, he received many emails; most were positive but some were not.<\/p>\n<p>Although out to family, friends and select others, Takei came out publicly in 2005 in response to California Governor <strong>Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong>&#8216;s veto of a gay marriage bill.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;I watched it on TV with my blood boiling,&#8221; said Takei. &#8220;That&#8217;s when I decided to speak to the press, so I&#8217;ve been out since 2005. You&#8217;re not really out until the press says you are out, I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the emails began arriving. &#8220;It was overwhelmingly positive \u2013 my computer exploded with emails,&#8221; said Takei. &#8220;But ten percent were hate mails that were very ugly and ominously threatening. I&#8217;m talking about death threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takei has been married to <strong>Brad Altman<\/strong> since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When George Takei came out in 2005, he received many emails; most were positive but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2415],"class_list":["post-16069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}