George Takei's picture book, which offers a child-friendly perspective on his early years spent in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, is now available for pre-order. The book's narrative will mainly cover Takei's resilience as a young boy living inside the camps. “My Lost Freedom” is illustrated by Michelle Lee and is set to be published by Crown Books for Young Readers on April 30, 2024.
it forcefully made me understand that you cannot be gay and be hired as an actor. and so i spent my childhood behind barbed wire fences, but as an adult, i self imposed an invisible barbed wire fence on myself. and i was closeted and still active on all these other socialjustice issues, except for the issue closest and most personal to me. and that was torture in itself. torture ? because there are all these other people, young men and women out there fighting for my cause, the gay liberation movement, and they were sacrificing their lives, their
and suddenly he disappeared. it was forcefully made. it forcefully made me understand that you cannot be gay and be hired as an actor. and so i spent my childhood behind barbed wire fences, but as an adult, i self imposed an invisible barbed wire fence on myself. and i was closeted and still active on all these other socialjustice issues, except for the issue closest and most personal to me. and that was torture in itself. torture? because there are all these other people, young men and women out there fighting for my cause, the gay liberation movement, and they were sacrificing their lives, their careers, theirjobs. and you stayed silent. and i stayed silent.
because i wanted to be an actor. i passionately wanted to be an actor. when i was a teenager, my heart throb was a handsome, young blonde actor named tab hunter. he was starring in almost every warner. he had a warner bros contract, every movie coming from the warner bros studio battle cry, damn yankees. i went and saw every one of them until he was exposed, by one of our scandal sheets as being gay, and suddenly he disappeared. it was forcefully made. it forcefully made me understand that you cannot be gay and be hired as an actor. and so i spent my childhood behind barbed wire fences, but as an adult, i self imposed an invisible barbed wire fence on myself.