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There's one version of George Decay, who is my guest on this week's show, that you probably know.

The guy who played Commander Sulu on Star Trek.

That's now almost 60 years ago.

He's continued playing that role. He's appeared in animated Star Trek shows as recently as 2023. There's also George Taked, the, I don't know, I guess,

social media brand. He has nearly 10 million followers on Facebook, another 4 million on

Instagram and Twitter. If you don't follow him there,

I mean, I bet dollars to donuts that you have an aunt or a brother-in-law who loves to send you

his posts. Then there's the George Decay, who was a child living with his family in Boyle Heights,

Los Angeles, in 1942.

American soldiers showed up in his driveway and forcibly removed Ticay and his family.

They were incarcerated first at a local horse racing track, then near a swamp in Arkansas, then at a remote mountain camp near the border of Oregon and California.

And then finally there is the George Tay, who until he was 68 years old, lived in the closet.

And when he finally did come out as a gay man in 2005, he didn't do it because he felt especially

comfortable, but because the then governor of California had vetoed a bill that would have allowed marriage equality.

There's a new book out. It's called Rhymes with Tocay, and it shows a new side of George Tocque, graphic novelist.

It's a memoir that focuses on Tocque's journey of discovering an important part of his identity, hiding it,

and then how it felt for him to finally come out publicly.

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