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Contents:
- GAY MALE REPRENTATN STAR WARS
- STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
- STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
GAY MALE REPRENTATN STAR WARS
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This year Star Wars has said would celebrate Pri month by lettg gay and trans artists “pay homage to some of the LGBT+ characters habg a galaxy far, far away” a special le of ic book vers. Sjir Rath Vel is the first major hero a Star Wars story to be gay.
Author Chuck Wendig troduced the first gay ma character to the Star Wars universe the Imperial turnat Sjir Rath Vel.
Sjir Rath Vel, troduced Star Wars: Aftermath, was the first gay protagonist a Star Wars story.
STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
The novel also troduced two background characters who are gay.
STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
Crisp’s young Han Solo trilogy, kept a mistrs to imprs his Imperial lleagu and to hi the fact that he was not terted women, leadg to fandom speculatn that the character was meant to be terpreted as gay.) A party member Bware’s semal roleplayg game Knights of the Old Republic, Juhani wasn’t jt created and wrten as a lbian character, she was also one of several romance optns for players who played KotOR as a female versn of the game’s protagonist, Revan.Star Wars’ groundbreakg first step was not whout some stumbl, however. But even if Juhani’s relatnship wh a female Revan was nsired non-non, her sexualy remaed unchanged: part of Juhani’s arc the first game impli that she prevly had a relatnship wh a childhood iend and fellow Jedi iate, Belaya, and briefly fell to the Dark Si part due to her ep feelgs for Belaya gog agast the Jedi Co of attachments.It would take a few more years for Star Wars to receive s first gay character, but wh would e another important step the anchise’s history: the first queer married uple.
Although Bevi and Vasur were Star Wars’ first gay uple, none of their appearanc the novels explicly noted that they were married.
In 2009—years before TOR would release 2011—fom muny manager Sean Dahlberg was forced to apologize after fendg the choice for the game’s fan foms to filter “gay” and “lbian” as banned terms by argug that they are terms “that do not exist Star Wars.” And spe a sire om fans, The Old Republic only lnched wh straight romance optns among s many character class stori.Cytharat and Lemda, the two LGBTQ romanc add Rise of the Hutt Cartels.Image: EA/BwareThat would change two years later wh the addn of the MMO’s first major ntent expansn The Rise of the Hutt Cartels, but once aga, was not whout errors judgment. But many felt Makeb was beg treated as “the gay pla,” and that players terted queer romanc and characters were not beg given equable treatment.For all s false starts, TOR would eventually improve. Most notably, the trilogy add the “first non” gay characters, the form of ex-Imperial Sjir Rath Vel— who fected om the Empire after the battle of Endor and beme a major pot-of-view character the first book the seri—and his boyiend, a New Republic Slicer named Conr Kyl.It wasn’t jt the new, post-Return of the Jedi timele that the Disney age brought LGBTQ reprentatn to.