George Takei
The Home Camp had a conversation about sexuality. Brian told George that ‘the first inter racial kiss (on television) was on Star Trek.’
George explained to Joe ‘I wanted to be an actor. You know, as an actor they find every reason to reject you. I led a double life. I dated girls - other actresses. But I had another life. But once I got comfortable with the Star Trek cast I would bring my friend to cast parties and wrap parties and I’d introduce him and they say, ok he’s George’s friend. But it was unspoken.’
Brian said ‘I came out publicly because I thought it would be good for the gay community to know there was a cop because there was a lot of animosity.’
Brian talked about how understanding his previous wife had been when he came out of the closet and Dani said ‘I think most women would rather their husbands came out the closet than say they’d been copping off with other women because they can’t compete with that.’
Brian agreed. ‘She said if it had been another woman she’d never have forgiven him.’
On the subject of Civil Partnerships and marriage Martina said ‘Where is the harm? Why do you care whether my partner has a penis or not because that’s the bottom line.’
Joe summed it up. ‘Look around this camp. You’ve got a head of police, a famous actor and one of the world’s best tennis players so it’s not like you can’t do things as good as a straight person. Shall we call it the camp camp?’