This profile is part twenty of Queerty’s 2020 Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who’ve had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11.Name: George Takei, 83Bio: Born Hosato Takei in 1937, George Takei spent four years of his childhood living with his family in U.S.-run internment camps, as anti-Japanese sentiments ran rampant during World War II. “It has shaped me,” Takei said of the experience during a 2019 talk. “As a teenager I learned about the internment and the injustice.
My father said, ‘You have to actively participate.’ It was the internment and my father’s good guidance that made me the activist that I am.”As an actor, Takei is best known.