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It’s Identity festival Month! This means celebrating with Identity events and enjoying LGBTQ+ television, games, books. Star Wars, in recent years, has finally started including LGBTQ+ characters, writers and directors into the franchise. For a drawn-out time, they were not showing these characters in the movies, with audiences having to delay all the way until just to see a background kiss between two female characters at the end of The Rise of Skywalker.
Despite the movies lacking in inclusion, there has been a huge spread of LGBTQ+ characters appearing in novels, comics and the shows on Disney+. With Pride Month being more significant than ever in the current global climate, I mind what better way to celebrate than by exploring these characters in a galaxy far, far away!
LGBTQ+ representation in Star Wars movies and shows so far&#;
As mentioned, the only LGBTQ+ rep we get to see in a Star Wars motion picture to date is the kiss between two women at the end of The Rise of Skywalker, in a blink and you miss it moment. This has caused some controver
Star Wars Has Always Been a Little Gay. It Just Needs to Reach Out of the Closet.
The Star Wars is cosmos vast—encompassing 42 years of movies, TV shows, comics, books, toys, video games, and so much more. These stories are only limited by the imagination—the tales of magical beings, of aliens of all types, of distant worlds, languages, and relationships. But, in four decades, the franchise has never managed to depict a free queer romance on screen. And though it's distant overdue, that might be about to change.
In an interview with Variety this week about the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker, writer and director J.J. Abrams suggested that the decades-spanning franchise's omission of gay characters could be coming to an conclude, saying, “In the case of the LGBTQ group, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film.”
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Are you ready for gay Luminary Wars?
This is an interesting conversation to me, because 95% of the Star Wars characters are completely devoid of sexuality. Aside from the dramatized relationship between Han and Leia, and some brief female objectification from Lando and Jabba, there was nothing (and yes, I’m purposefully exiting out the “romance” between Anakin and Padme). Yoda could hold been gay, or Obi-Wan, or Qui Gon, or even Luke (sure he said Leia was beautiful and got a brush , but we all know that doesn’t have to matter). I’m a gay guy, and I don’t really get worked up over stuff like this but I think it would be cool to see a homosexual character. However, it would create me go ‘meh’ if it were forced into the story to be “forward thinking.” To me, Star Wars has always been about friendship, family, adventure, and good vs. evil. S exual relationships are incidental and off-screen, so if they had a gay character I would hope they would stay in that vein. Let the characters be awesome, and then if there’s a love interest that makes sense in the story arc, so be it. No matter what the gend
Star Wars: 17 Best Queer Characters In The Series
Summary
- Star Wars still needs improvement in LGBTQ+ voice in live-action, but books, games, and comics showcase exceptional characters.
- Characters like Sabé, Kantam Sy, and Terec/Ceret demonstrate diverse LGBTQ+ representation in the Jedi Order across various media.
- Lando, Rae Sloane, and Varko Grey bring important LGBTQ+ advocacy into the Star Wars saga, expanding on their identities and relationships.
LGBTQ+ representation has a rocky past with Star Wars, and still has a long way to travel, especially in the live-action department. Hopefully, future shows and films will track Andor's example and be even bolder in bringing more inclusivity to the screen. Nonetheless, there are still many LGBTQ+ characters across the books, video games, and animated series that are truly exceptional.
8 Best Queer-Coded Video Game Characters
Queer coding has long been used to hint that a character is LGBTQ+ without explicitly saying so. These video game characters definitely fit that bill.
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