Gay actors in star trek

Star Trek’s first openly queer TV character has been revealed

The creators of the latest installment in the Star Trek franchise hold revealed that the upcoming TV series will film an openly gay character—for the first time in its 51-year history.

Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on CBS and Netflix this September and is put roughly 10 years before the events of the original series.

Actor Anthony Rapp—who has previously starred in Rent—will play Lt. Stamets, an anastromycologist (fungus expert) who is in a romantic relationship with medical officer Dr. Hugh Culber, played by Wilson Cruz.

“I’m really excited and happy when a gay character is a part of a story — especially when a gay character is created in a complex and human and non-stereotypical, interesting way, and that has certainly been the case with Stamets,” Rapp tells Entertainment Weekly.

In the recent film Star Trek Beyond, the character of Sulu—played by John Cho—is very subtly portrayed as gay. The original Sulu actor and openly queer man George Takei referred to it as a “whisper of a scene”.

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Homosexuality in Star Trek

Homosexuality has a strong place in official Star Trek now, so this topic can be closed.

In Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future there is no place for racial stereotypes as they were still commonplace in the 1960s, or for traditional gender roles. At least theoretically. We need to bear in mind that the original Luminary Trek had three white men in the key roles, and that it was made under the surveillance of conservative network directors. They reportedly wanted to get rid of the alien Spock as adv as of "Number One", the lady in a impressive position. Yet, in the following the series spoke out against the preconceptions and prejudices of the time on many occasions. Sometimes by breaking taboos like with Uhura's and Kirk's interracial kiss in TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" - although that peck was forced. A certain degree of racism and sexism still exists in today's society and occasionally shows up in TV programs. But all in all, in the past few decades the question of skin color and gender on screen has become a non-issue, so that the decision to get a shadowy commander for Intense Space 9 or a female captain on Voyager was not anywhere as bold as it would

Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Coupledom

The reality that for the first time in the 51-year history of "Star Trek," out gay actors are playing queer characters in admire , is not something CBS, its stars or its creators are either hiding or promoting. But it is something they’re celebrating.

“I couldn’t be more confident to be a part of 'Star Trek' TV’s first gay couple,” performer Anthony Rapp of "Rent" fame told NBC News. “I can’t say how much that means to me personally as a fan of the series and as a member of the LGBT community.”

Rapp plays the prickly, grumpy genius anastromycologist Lt. Paul Stamets, which basically means he’s the foremost veteran on fungus. And fungus gets far more screen-time than his same-sex association on the CBS All Access streaming show, which is just fine with Rapp.

“I’m proud of the fact that none of that really matters in the show,” Rapp said, describing the portrayal of their relationship as “alive, truthful and human.”

His on-screen partner and costar, Wilson Cruz, who plays Dr. Hugh Culber, called Rapp his “space boo” on stage at New York Comic Con. They’ve been friends since they starred together on Broadway two decades a

Star Trek: A Queer History Of The Franchise

The Star Trek franchise has always been known to push the boundaries of what is acceptable on mainstream television, and one of the ways it has done this is with explorations of LGBTQ+ themes. Star Trek: The Original Series kicked off the franchise in 1966, in a decade where a lot of social norms were in flux. The topics of race, gender, and sexuality were all being brought to the forefront of the public mind, and TOS began the tradition of using episodes to hold a mirror up to the social and political issues of the night. Following in the footsteps of TOS, every Star Trek captain and crew have since continued the trend of addressing pertinent real-world topics.

It is worth noting that, while TOS was a trendsetter in its storylines about race and gender politics, the show never had any explicit representation of queer characters, and neither did Star Trek: The Next Generation. During the time it was airing, there were a considerable number of established rules about what was and was not regarded as acceptable to show on network television. TOS got away with a lot that the network may have not wanted it to sho