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When I was in my twenties, struggling to find my way through life, I very much identified as a gay man. At the time, being …
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I am a Japanese American, and I am a gay man. For most of my life, the intersection between those two identities has been claustrophobically …
During my involvement in Japanese American studies, from 1972 to the present, I have been struck by two simultaneous developments. The first is a growing …
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George Hosato Takei was born in Los Angeles in 1937 to an Issei father, Takekuma Norman Takei, and Nisei mother, Fumiko Emily Nakamura. He was …
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The elderly man leaned on his walker while shuffling across the wood-stained floor, pulling behind him what amounted to his life-support system. The wheels creaked, …
So, I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I’ve paid virtually no attention to the immigration debate because I didn’t think it had anything to …
“A musical?” says Leonard Nimoy, “on that?” He bursts out laughing. “A musical about the internment?” asks U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, wincing, “no, I would …
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You know, this evening I was originally supposed to speak here tonight in a conversation with Senator Daniel K. Inouye. But as all of us …
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