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I agree on this wholeheartedly. I want to see a GAY character in Trek..I just don't want a character who is gay MERELY to have a gay character......I want to see a character who just happens to be gay. That is how I see myself. I have many interests. I have my hopes, my dreams, my ups and downs..and I just happen to be gay..much like others here are themselves with their lives. ...only they are straight.

Having any character be believable and real is just good writing.....be they a gay or straight one.... a gay character ought to be filled out and given a history...feelings...likes, dislikes..same as any other character.

The main cast of Next Generation seemed real to us because they were written and performed that way.

That is all I expect in a gay Trek character....or any other Trek personality, for that matter.

If a gay character is to be accepted..it ought to be on his own merit as a personality. Not as a man or woman who pushes his sexuality onscreen and turns it into a big issue. Just have him - her be like anybody else.


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I absolutely agree with your post! I'd also like to point out that you are a great example of this because up until now, this noob did not know that you were gay. I assumed from Jim and Klinton that gay posters on Rob's Boards wore their sexual orientation on their sleeve, but this is obviously not the case. Can you be on Star Trek?



Thanks! I would not personally want to be a gay character on Star Trek, however, in light of how well he played a drag queen in " Holiday Heart ", I would love to see Ving Rhames play a gay character in a Star Trek show. Not that I would want Ving to portray a drag queen in space, it's that he did a fantastic job of portraying a gay man in a sensitive way..and I am extrapolating that he would be equally good at playing an officer on Star Trek who is not obviously gay....hopefully at least an executive officer..who would just happen to be a gay black man. My boyfriend is black and he, too, would like to see a gay black man on a Star Trek show.

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