George & Brad Plan White Wedding

It may not be the Clooney-Pitt nuptials, but after 21 years together it will be just as monumental for George Takei and Brad Altman.

Takei, best known for playing Sulu on Star Trek and his recurring role on NBC's Heroes, has been a longtime advocate in the fight for marriage for gay couples. The day the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on marriage, Altman got down on one knee to propose while Takei was eating a sandwich in their kitchen, the couple told AP Radio this week.

They bought each other turquoise and silver wedding rings and plan to walk down the aisle in white tuxedoes on Sept. 14 in the Democracy Forum at the Japanese National Museum in Los Angeles.

Members of Takei's Trek family will be in attendance. Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, will be the best man and Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, will be the matron of honor. Castmate Leonard Nimoy will be among the 200 guests.

The couple plan to honeymoon for a month in South America.

When the NY Post printed details of the couple's plans on Thursday, they also ran an offensive cartoon that raised the ire Takei's friend Howard Stern. "It's kinda anti-gay," Stern pointed out on Sirius Satellite Radio's The Howard Stern Show. “This is totally anti-gay, there is no mistake,” added Stern's sidekick Fred Norris.

GLAAD has issued a call to action against the NY Post.