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Date Posted: 21:06:37 04/03/07 Tue
Author: Julia N
Subject: Re: YouTube - Kate Mulgrew
In reply to: Jools 's message, "YouTube - Kate Mulgrew" on 11:25:49 03/29/07 Thu

She is actually very gay-friendly. Here is an execrpt from Wikipedia:

In 2002 Kate Mulgrew (who played Captain Janeway) gave an interview to Metrosource where she spoke candidly about the issue of LGBT characters in the Star Trek television universe.

"[...] because of its both political and potentially incendiary substance. I'm in a minority as well, as a woman. It took a lot of courage on their part to hire a woman. I think that right up until the end they were very dubious about it. It's one thing to cast a subordinate Black, Asian or woman, but to put them in leading role means the solid endorsement of one of the largest studios in the world. And that goes for a gay character as well. It requires a terrific social conscience on their part and the pledge of some solidarity and unanimity, which I think is probably at the source of most of this problem to get every one of those executives on board regarding this decision."[13]
That same year Mulgrew was even more blunt about the topic in an August 2002 interview for Out in America:

"Well, one would think that Hollywood would be more open-minded at this point, since essentially the whole town is run by the gay community. It makes very little sense if you think about it. No, Star Trek is very strangely by the book in this regard. Rick Berman, who is a very sagacious man, has been very firm about certain things. I've approached him many, many times over the years about getting a gay character on the show — one whom we could really love, not just a guest star. Y'know, we had blacks, Asians, we even had a handicapped character — and so I thought, this is now beginning to look a bit absurd. And he said, "In due time." And so, I'm suspecting that on Enterprise they will do something to this effect. I couldn't get it done on mine. And I am sorry for that."

If anyone is interested in the whole article:

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_characters_in_the_Star_Trek_universe">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_characters_in_the_Star_Trek_universe</a>

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