{"product_id":"it-rhymes-with-takei","title":"PREORDER It Rhymes With Takei","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing the award-winning bestseller \u003cem\u003eThey Called Us Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e George Takei’s new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all told in full for the first time anywhere!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Takei has shown the world many faces: actor author outspoken activist helmsman of the starship Enterprise living witness to the internment of Japanese Americans and king of social media. But until October 27 2005 there 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow for the first time ever George shares the full story of his life in the closet his decision to come out as gay at the age of 68 and the way that moment transformed everything. Following the phenomenal success of his first graphic memoir \u003cem\u003eThey Called Us Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e George Takei reunites with the team of Harmony Becker Steven Scott and Justin Eisinger for a jaw-dropping new testament. From his earliest childhood crushes and youthful experiments in the rigidly conformist 1950s to global fame as an actor and the terrible fear of exposure to the watershed moment of speaking his truth and becoming one of the most high-profile gay men on the planet \u003cem\u003eIt Rhymes with Takei\u003c\/em\u003e offers a sweeping portrait of one iconic American navigating the tides of LGBTQ+ history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining historical context with intimate subjectivity \u003cem\u003eIt Rhymes with Takei\u003c\/em\u003e 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 spaces the anguish of speaking up for so many issues while remaining silent on his most personal issue the grief of losing friends to AIDS the joy of finding true love with Brad Altman and the determination to declare that love openly and legally before the whole world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking back on his astonishing life on both sides of the closet door George Takei presents a charismatic and candid account of how far America has come…and how precious that progress is.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"drawer-medium\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages \u003c\/strong\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e336\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gamerholic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43226008780915,"sku":"9781603095747","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/8934\/files\/262470.jpg?v=1753799510","url":"https:\/\/gamerholic.com.au\/products\/it-rhymes-with-takei","provider":"Gamerholic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}