Is spock gay

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It is an axiom of geek customs that Star Trek was a beacon of steady thought on prime-time television, presenting an aggressively optimistic vision of the future in which humans of all races worked alongside even stranger beings to explore the universe and protect life in all its diversity, with phasers set to “stun” unless absolutely necessary. It is equally widely admitted that a glaring gap in the rainbow coalition aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise was human sexual diversity: in six television series and 12 feature films, the franchise has never identified an onscreen character as unambiguously gay, lesbian, or transgender.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was, apparently, farther behind the curve on gay rights than he was on racial equality, and never quite made queer inclusion a priority in his time guiding the franchise. Nevertheless Trek has tiptoed up to the line from a number of angles, presenting mind-swaps between bodies of different sexes going advocate to the “Original Series” of the late 1960s, alien species with sexual and gender roles that defy the male-female binary, sexually ambiguous alter-egos in parallel universes, and eve

Zachary Quinto confirms he is gay in magazine interview

The star again confirmed his sexuality when speaking about the contrast between gay marriage being legalised in New York declare and the death of Jamey Rodemeyer.

Quinto said: "And again, as a male lover man I watch at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it.

"But as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a customs and society delve deeper to study that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves."

Posting on his personal blog on Sunday, external, the actor said the 14-year-old's death had made him realise it was second to come out and that he wished he had done it sooner.

"It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay being without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality," wrote Quinto.

"Gay kids desire to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and persistent bullying.

"Parents necessitate to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance

Gay 'Star Trek' Personality Provokes Polarizing Response

The world of "Star Trek" has been rocked by perhaps its biggest controversy since the nature of Spock was temporarily killed off nearly 35 years ago. The makers of the latest cinematic installment -- "Star Trek: Beyond" -- have revealed that the iconic character of Lt. Hikaru Sulu (played by John Cho) will be portrayed as gay.

This news has provoked a polarizing reaction -- with some arguing that the go is a victory for advocates of more inclusivity and representation of the LGBT community in mainstream cinema, and others decrying yet another example of what they examine to be politically correct overreach.

Perhaps surprisingly, George Takei -- who originated the Sulu character and played him on television and clip for 25 years, has slammed the idea. Takei, who came out publicly as gay in 2005 and has been an outspoken proponent of LGBT rights for decades, told the Hollywood Reporter that while he is "delighted that there’s a gay character," the alteration of Sulu's sexual identity is a "twisting of ['Star Trek' maker Gene Roddenberry's] creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it’s really

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The Star Trek ideal of delight in diversity — of taking pleasure in each others’ differences — as symbolized by Mr. Spock’s Vulcan philosophy of the IDIC (infinite diversity in infinite combinations), is nowhere more in evidence than at a Star Trek convention.[1]

You’re 17, almost 18, and you’re lost in that period of transition between high school and college, where you’re supposed to be an elder already but you don’t really feel that way yet, and your buddy tells you about this show she’s been watching and says, “You’ll love it. The main characters are in love.” You’ve been in fandom for awhile, bouncing from one to another — you enjoy how easy it is to explore those hard definitions and the blurry aspects of your own identity within the amorphous space of fandom, where nothing is solidly defined but everything is ever-shifting and as massive as you want it to be, distant but far too close sometimes. You like that you find kinship there with others who are as confused as you are but find comfort in making the same characters fall in love over and over in a thousand different ways across time and space. You’ve been adjacent to the fandom you

Mr. Spock is gay… sort of (Zachary Quinto comes out)

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I pride myself on cute good gaydar, so I was slightly surprised today when I heard Zachary Quinto — who played Syler on the cult TV show Heroes (which I didn’t like) and was cast as Mr. Spock in the Luminary Trek reboot last year — has officially approach out as gay.

I know quite a scant gay men who will be excited by this news.

Quinto’s next onscreen roll is the conduct in Margin Call, a drama about the economic meltdown, due out Friday. Good timing.

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