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: 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. Now 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 They Called Us Enemy
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 It Rhymes with Takei offers a sweeping portrait of one iconic American navigating the
tides of LGBTQ+ history. Combining historical context with intimate subjectivity It 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 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. Looking 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.
