Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-53539-20160711105641

MeerkatQueen wrote: NeevaDash wrote: Sulu is gay D:.. Not you Sulu! You mean from Star Trek? What's wrong with that? The actor who played in TOS, is openly gay and a huge LGBT+ rights activist. To me, this isn't surprising at all. They actually wanted to have openly gay characters in the franchise since TNG, but Roddenberry died and this didn't end up happening. I think the only problem here is the original character was not known to be gay. This is a re-write of the character, when there was no identification of his sexualisation at all.

I know right now in the media everyone is rushing to create that token gay character, as its the new token black character, but rewriting a character means you face the original fan backlash. It would have been better to have a new character then to change an old one.

However, Gene was keen to have a mixed diverse cast.

However.... Look... Here is my thoughts... Sulu did not have to be a token gay character, because he was a token Asian character in the original series as at a time there was tension between certain Asian countries and America.... The character was a risky one to begin with, even ore so then their token black character, because unlike token asian, token black was a trope being pushed up until today to force equality. So it was a *BIG DEAL* for Sulu to be there.