Ian Alexanr and Blu l Barr will appear the third season of CBS Televisn's Star Trek: Disvery — a show which broke boundari by featurg a married gay uple as central characters for the first time the anchise's history.
Contents:
- STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
- EXCLIVE: STAR TREK’S STRANGE NEW WORLDS IS FOLLOWG DISVERY’S LEAD BY ADDG A GAY MAN TO THE CREW
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will also be featurg a gay man as one of the hsip's crew, much like Star Trek: Disvery has done. * gay male star trek *
“My attu toward homosexualy has changed,” he told The Humanist 1991. I have, over many years, changed my attu about gay men and women.”. Even after his ath, took another 28 years for the first gay character to appear Star Trek’s televisn seri (although y, novel tie-s, ics, fan works, and other non-nonil media featured a markedly improved number of LGBT Starfleet officers).
EXCLIVE: STAR TREK’S STRANGE NEW WORLDS IS FOLLOWG DISVERY’S LEAD BY ADDG A GAY MAN TO THE CREW
Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * gay male star trek *
Given that the first openly gay recurrg character on televisn wouldn’t appear until the edy Soap 1977 (and played by Billy Crystal, so not exactly a nuanced character portrayal), pictg one the ‘60s when Star Trek first aired would have been unthkable to most people. Of urse, much of what Star Trek did to highlight actors and characters of different ethnic backgrounds would have been pretty far-fetched for many televisn dienc of the time, too – so what ma gay stori different at the time? But still others were spired – enough that Kirk and Spock’s endurg nnectn to one another has remaed a potent symbol of homosexual love for Trek fans.
Durg a 20th anniversary nventn 1986, show creator Gene Rodnberry was asked by a foundg member of a Boston LGBT science fictn group (lled, charmgly, the Gaylaxian Network) whether or not the recently announced The Next Generatn would troduce gay characters to Starfleet. We should probably have a gay character.'".
That same year, Gerrold (who’s bt known for wrg the TOS episo “The Trouble Wh Tribbl”) began workg on a script which revolved around two gay characters beg afflicted by an curable, tergalactic blood disease that mirrored the spread of HIV.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Dpe this, Rodnberry still seemed mted to makg good on his promise to the Gaylaxians, who by 1990 had begun a letter-wrg petn (spurred partly by Gerrold’s stori of his episo’s mise at var nventn appearanc). In a letter to The Advote, Rodnberry wrote that " the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generatn, viewers will see more of shipboard life some episos, which will, among other thgs, clu gay crew members day-to-day circumstanc.” Unfortunately, Rodnberry died unexpectedly October 1991, and the day-to-day circumstanc he envisned never materialized.