Takei, who has had the same partner for 18 years, said in a later interview that the current social and political climate motivated him to speak out. He was also inspired by his latest stage role as a psychologist in Equus.

A Japanese-American who lived in a U.S. internment camp from four to eight, he said he grew up feeling ashamed of his ethnicity as well as his sexuality.

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