OlderGeorge Takei Wedding Pictures — FIRST PICS
Star Trek legend George Takei, aka Sulu, holds hands with husband Brad Altman after tying the knot before 200 loved ones during a multi-cultural ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
As guests shot firecrackers into the air, the ceremony featured a Buddhist priest, Native American wedding bands, a Japanese Koto harp and a bagpipe procession. Several of his Star Trek costars were in attendance including Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), who was maid of honor, and Walter Koenig (Chekhov), who was the best man.
Takei, 71, and Altman, 54, married after being partners for 21 years. The couple received their marriage license back in June, shortly after California announced its same-sex marriage ruling.
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Why do people have a problem with others finding happiness in their lives? This couple has been together for over two decades. What more do they need to do to prove that they will love and support each other through the good times and the bad? Isn’t that what a traditional marriage is all about…since that’s what these hate-mongers seem to pride themselves on calling a marriage btwn a man and a woman. Let’s do a survey and find out how many straight couples have survived together as a couple for 21 years. I will never understand how homophobic idiots try to belittle and degrade a union based upon love when there are so many terrible things going on in the world. People, open your minds to love, to compassion for someone who might be a little different than you. If you ever got to know this couple, I know you would find, as people always do when they have an open mind and reach out to others instead of assault them, that there is more that connects us than separates us and this, in the end, is what we need to focus on. We are all in this together. Stop judging others for loving. Start being a productive human being in the world instead.
Congrats to them :)
I’m opposed to calling the union of two homosexuals “marriage” because it just is not that. Marriage is between a man and a woman.
I’m all for letting gay people legally join themselves together, but don’t make a mockery of marriage. Because two men getting married is not marriage.
An apple and an orange are both fruits, but an apple is not an orange.
Civil unions and Marriages are both legal bindings, but a civil union between two people of the same sex is not a marriage.
Natalie–
Gays don’t need to make a mockery of marriage–heterosexual couples do it all the time. They cheat, they lie, they hurt their spouses, they divorce. So hell, why not allow everyone that privilege.
Whether straight or gay love deserves recognition–legal recognition.
Lovely wedding; too bad you had to rely on intrusive paparzzi scum for photos–lousy, low quality photos at that. I was one of the official photogs at the wedding. If you join AP you could get high quality images that don’t tread on people’s privacy.
On one hand, gay people should be FORCED to get married. Why should they be the only ones besides single people to be exempt from misery? On the other hand, to all you left wing, opinionated members of society, I am sick to DEATH of hearing of what you think the rest of us should think. You claim that people should have the right of freedom. Freedom of actions, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and so on. So by the same token, those of us who are not accepting of these homosexual’s lifestyles, that is our FREEDOM! Do us all a favour (favour is spelled right by the way) and stop ramming your liberal “Yeah for gay marriage, everybody should be like us” BS down everybody’s throats, OK?
@ #57
Noone is telling you what to think. All gay people want is equality and equal rights. In a civilised society all people should be treated equally. You are entitled to feel whatever you want about gay people but that doesn’t give you the right to deny us equality.
By the way homosexuality is not a lifestyle it’s an orientation.
I completely agree with Khaj!
As a Repulican, I endorse gay marriages. Why hate? Appreciate! After all, we are creatures with feelings so let love lead the way to peace and equality.
Have a heart! You know what they say, what you don’t like, you will get. Just wait, you’ll see.. either your kid, friend or family member is gay, how do you suppose you support them and their happiness? Hopefully not with hatred.
Wish I could say that God is in their marriage…oh yea thats right….God doesn’t approve….hummm.
#17 and #19 need to grow up. if 19 is going to compare homosexual marriages with walking naked, then maybe he should extend that to include all the children in the 60s who had polio but were denied a public education because society thought that polio was contageous. Or how about people in wheelchairs who are often denied jobs or access to buildings. Is their being denied basic civil rights any less? You seem to think that homosexuality is a ‘choice’ because you compare it to ‘choosing’ to walk around naked. When you were growing up did you ever have the need to choose to be gay or straight? Did you even ever consider that you MIGHT want to choose to be gay? Somehow I don’t think so. You both are so quick to judge but do you even know what you are talking about? Gay people have no more choice about their sexuality than a person stricken with cancer has to choose to be suddenly cured.
learn the facts or shut up.
my mistake I meant #15 and #17. Sorry #19.
At least I own up to my mistakes and learn from them.
1. Doesn’t reqire a “law” for gays to marry. The MCC has been holding ceremonies for decades.
2. Does take some fancy legal footwork to set up the contracts that are implicit in heterosexual marriages - needs to be made easier OR make it equally difficult for straight unions.
3. No traditionalist church should be forced to perform gay marriages. Not all straight marriages are permitted by every church - ie - the divorced, first cousins, non-believers to believers, etc.
4.I think this whole fol-de-rol is ridiculous.
And by the way, polio IS contagious - it’s a virus. Several decades ago, the length of transmissibility and source of infection were not fully understood, AND access for the disabled was limited. In the 40’s, I finished grade school with a classmate in a wheelchair and leg braces because of polio. Also finished grade school with a classmate who sustained 3rd degree burns over 80% of her body. Back then, it was amazing to survive that much burn.
Idiots. We are surrounded by ignorant idiots. God help the country.
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