Yet Another Reason Why Mr. Sulu Rocks
Apr. 25th, 2011 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomThere's a bill meandering through the Tennessee legislature that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality with K-8 students. It's known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Well, sir, our hero George Takei has Tweeted:
Well, sir, our hero George Takei has Tweeted:
TN bill will prevent teachers from using the word "gay" in class. In response, I'm lending them my name: "It's okay to be Takei."I love it. I love it so much, in fact, that I'm changing my I-think-apt-but-still-worringly-possibly-offensive tag "teh gay" to the now absolutely perfect "Takei".
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Date: 2011-04-25 04:29 pm (UTC)BTW: Did you hear about the time he inspired someone to quit smoking?
http://www.heroicstories.com/sample.html
True story.
-L.
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Date: 2011-04-25 04:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-25 05:13 pm (UTC)-L.
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Date: 2011-04-25 08:02 pm (UTC)Maybe someday he'll change his name to "George Toutstanding" or "George Twonderful." ;)
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Date: 2011-04-25 05:19 pm (UTC)I didn't think I could like Takei any more than I do. But I do now. Oh yes, I do. He is made of win.
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Date: 2011-04-25 05:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-25 05:51 pm (UTC)I wonder if I can find an appropriate place to write and bitch somebody out...
I was just in a panel this weekend (token straight guy in a room full of anything but) as to how SF/F opened folks' eyes to who they, themselves, were... as it did me, but in different ways... if Tennessee moves to restrict *that*, I'm gonna move to restrict Tennessee, or at bloody least disown the joint...
And I'm remembering singing "Falling Free" with you at Conflikt 3... also win and pie.
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Date: 2011-04-25 06:01 pm (UTC)Frelling. Brilliant.
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Date: 2011-04-25 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-25 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-25 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-25 10:29 pm (UTC)(assuming he doesn't already know...)
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Date: 2011-04-25 09:31 pm (UTC)and it sounds much more...right than just 'gay' doesn't it?!
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Date: 2011-04-26 12:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-26 02:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-26 06:10 am (UTC)Celebrate Takei Pride all year round, not just in June.
On behalf of my own takei nephew who's also a foaming rabid computer whiz and Star Trek fan, I say domo arigato gozaimasu, Takei-sensei!
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Date: 2011-04-26 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-26 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-26 11:37 pm (UTC)By the way, as a resident Tennessean, every person I've talked about with this, even the ones who range from gay-neutral to anti-gay, seems to think this is just an effing stupid waste of time.
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Date: 2011-04-27 03:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-27 05:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-28 01:36 am (UTC)