As much as I'm a het gal. ^^

I read about this once, about where he was still very shy and closed about being gay, while basically everyone else on the team was aware and were perfectly fine with it. The day he told them everyone was like, no worries we already knew.
No clue IIRC but I found it a nice story.

OH MY

wait, was the actor gay or the character? I always assumed the character, because it was always "Sulu is gay" not "[actor's name] is gay".

So, it depends.

The actor George Takei is gay. Sulu in the Kelvin timeline is also gay. IIRC, Takei was mad about that detail because he always played Sulu as straight.

But hey, we can chalk that up to the multiverse being a strange place.

George Takei is gay, which fans have projected onto the character. I don’t think it ever showed up in the prime universe, but the writers ran with it in the Kelvin timeline, where Sulu is shown visiting his daughter and husband while on shore leave in Star Trek Beyond, the third movie. (The daughter, Demora Sulu, had previously appeared in the prime universe as the helms woman of the Enterprise B in Generations.)

I understand that recently Kelvin timeline has been de-lored? But yes, character is straight, actor is gay.

Takei was mad about that detail because he always played Sulu as straight.

I would be, too. It kind of shits all over his job as an actor.

I really hope so, and hope they can delore jarjar abrahms shitty Star Wars sequel trilogy as well

They’re just not making any more Kelvin films. It’s still as much canon as it ever was.

His daughter was a bridge officer on the Enterprise-B.

Ah ok, thanks for clarifying

Hellooooooooo

Rewatching a few TOS episodes awhile back, I could easily see Sulu as bi. I know Takei felt he was playing a “straight” character, but there’s a short bit in, I think, “The Naked Time” where he seems to be flirty with both men and women (early in the episode if memory serves).