It Rhymes with Takei

Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy,George Takei’s new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all–told in full for the first time anywhere! George Takei has shown the world many faces: actorauthoroutspoken activisthelmsman of the starship Enterpriseliving witness to the internment of Japanese Americansand king of social media. But until October 272005there was always one piece missing–one face he did not show the world. There was one very intimate fact about George that he never shared…and it rhymes with Takei. Nowfor the first time everGeorge shares the full story of his life in the closethis decision to come out as gay at the age of 68and the way that moment transformed everything. Following the phenomenal success of his first graphic memoirThey Called Us EnemyGeorge Takei reunites with the team of Harmony BeckerSteven Scottand Justin Eisingernow joined by the award-winning colorist Jos├⌐ Villarrubiafor a jaw-dropping new testament. From his earliest childhood crushes and youthful experiments in the rigidly conformist 1950sto global fame as an actor and the terrible fear of exposureto the watershed moment of speaking his truth and becoming one of the most high-profile gay men on the planetIt Rhymes with Takei offers a sweeping portrait of one iconic American navigating the tides of LGBTQ+ history. Combining historical context with intimate subjectivityIt Rhymes with Takei shows how the personal and the political have always been intertwined. Its richly emotional words and images depict the terror of entrapment even in gay community spacesthe anguish of speaking up for so many issues while remaining silent on his most personal issuethe grief of losing friends to AIDSthe joy of finding true love with Brad Altmanand the determination to declare that love openly–and legally–before the whole world. Looking back on his astonishing life on both sides of the closet doorGeorge Takei presents a charismatic and candid account of how far America has come…and how precious that progress is.