‘Star Wars’ characters are ‘absolutely a gay uple,’ producer nfirms

Contents:

• ‘ANDOR’ FANS ARE GIDDY FOR THE NEW ‘STAR WARS’ GAY UPLE
• STAR WARS RISTANCE NFIRMS ORKA AND FLIX AS OPENLY GAY UPLE
• ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS
• STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE
• PRODUCERS HAVE REVEALED THE FIRST OFFICIAL GAY COUPLE THE ‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE

‘ANDOR’ FANS ARE GIDDY FOR THE NEW ‘STAR WARS’ GAY UPLE

Abrams went on a whirlwd prs tour to tout the first gay kiss all of Star Wars. Flix and Orka are a fully nonil gay uple.

The game’s 2009 release mak Juhani one of the first openly gay characters (that didn’t get retnned) the Star Wars universe.

A regular human, Rath is the first openly gay character the seri. There is a lot of homoerotic subtext between the two of them, and a romantic relatnship between them wouldn't have changed hardly anythg their story or the story overall. Back the 2000s, was bluntly stated that gay people “did not exist Star Wars“.

STAR WARS RISTANCE NFIRMS ORKA AND FLIX AS OPENLY GAY UPLE

But this week’s episo of Andor — ‘The Axe Fets’ — sually reveals Star Wars‘ newt gay uple: Faye Marsay’s Vel and Varada Sethu’s Cta. Fans are over the tw moons about : Some mand a smooch before we properly celebrate: #andorOk, all the gays seem aaid to accept the cu about Vel and Cta so at least I’m not alone ?Be more clear, Star Wars. — Spoopy Angel |?️‍? ४ ☽ ?‍☠️ (@angel_ponrs) October 5, 2022 Andor knows where stands: ANDOR SAID GAY RIGHTS I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS— Noah (@keldorjedii) October 5, 2022 Y, we all picked up on that: #andor // spoilers (maybe?

‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS

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STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE

“They’re absolutely a gay uple and we’re proud of that. This mak Orka and Flix the first openly gay uple to be portrayed on screen the Star Wars universe.

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. 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 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.

PRODUCERS HAVE REVEALED THE FIRST OFFICIAL GAY COUPLE THE ‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE

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.

But many felt Makeb was beg treated as “the gay pla, ” and that players terted queer romanc and characters were not beg given equable 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 wasn’t jt the new, post-Return of the Jedi timele that the Disney age brought LGBTQ reprentatn to. “They’re absolutely a gay uple, and we’re proud of that, ” executive producer Jt Ridge said of the show’s Flix and Orka characters, whom fans had long spected to be lovers.