Roddenberry wanting gay characters on star trek

Did Gene Roddenberry Attempt to Have a Gay Character on the Original Celestial body Trek?

Summary

Rod Roddenberry believes his father would support Diverse characters on Celebrity Trek now.
Gene Roddenberry's views on LGBTQ+ characters evolved over the years for the better.
Roddenberry, pre-Stonewall, was not considering LGBTQ+ characters on Star Trek in the 1960s.

TV LEGEND: Gene Roddenberry tried to have an Homosexual character on the original Star Trek series.

A few years back, there was a bit of a controversy when George Takei, who played Lt. Sulu on the unique Star Trek TV series from 1966-1969, criticized the choice of the Star Trek film reboot to have the Sulu in the film series (which was set in an alternate timeline where Captain James T. Kirk and his crew took over the Undertaking earlier than in the original timeline) be gay. Takei argued, "I’m delighted that there’s a gay character. Unfortunately, it’s a twisting of Gene’s creation, to which h

Homosexuality in Star Trek

Homosexuality has a firm place in official Actor 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 Star 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 successfully as of "Number One", the woman in a commanding 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 brush in TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" - although that kiss 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 doubt of skin color and gender on screen has become a non-issue, so that the choice to get a black commander for Deep Space 9 or a female captain on Voyager was not anywhere as bold as it would

Is Star Trek homophobic?

I don't think Celebrity Trek is. The trouble is Gene Roddenberry's underlying note that people's differences are no enormous deal and are accepted to the point where there's absolutely no demand to say anything. That sort of goes against what it is to be homosexual in the 20th/21st Centuries. TV and motion picture is largely entire of attention pursuing gay characteratures who fall into shared stereotypes - largely femine bitchy types, obsessed with musical-theatre, in many cases promoting promiscuity and unable to contain lasting relationships because society frowns on same sex marriages. Producers pander to those worst aspects and rarely build any positive role models, to counteract the homophobia out there.

I don't know so much about American TV, but judging by British programming I don't have much confidence a same-sex attracted character on Celestial body Trek would flee falling into that trap. Having to meet audience expectations of what queer and lesbian people are like... which unless you operate in showbusiness, I presume doesn't bear too much relation to those out there living usual lives.

If Celebrity Trek had moved with the times and for instance, during E

‘Star Trek’ Creator Son Says Dad Would’ve Been OK With Gay Crew

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The son of late “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry says his father would contain been on board with an Enterprise crew member being portrayed as lgbtq+, but he’s unsure if it should have been helmsman Hikaru Sulu.

Rod Roddenberry said his father would have been supportive of a gay “Trek” nature and commended the “Star Trek Beyond” filmmakers for featuring an LGBT ethics. Roddenberry died in 1991.

“I think he would be 100 percent in favor of a gay personality in ‘Star Trek,” said Roddenberry during an interview Tuesday. “There’s so much going on in the world today. I believe he would love any sort of social issue being brought into ‘Star Trek.'”

“Star Trek Beyond” star John Cho told Australia’s Herald Sun last week that a scene in the upcoming film plainly presents Sulu with a male spouse raising an infant daughter. Cho said he liked that the approach doesn’t “make a big thing” out of it.

However, original Sulu star George Takei called the decision unfortunate. The ope