Michael Chabon is aaid he didn't make 'Star Trek: Pird' obvly gay enough. Really. - Queerty

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• MICHAEL CHABON IS AAID HE DIDN’T MAKE ‘STAR TREK: PIRD’ OBVLY GAY ENOUGH. REALLY.
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• IS JOHN PICKARD GAY?

MICHAEL CHABON IS AAID HE DIDN’T MAKE ‘STAR TREK: PIRD’ OBVLY GAY ENOUGH. REALLY.

Jeri Ryan's reformed B drone was troduced to Star Trek: Voyager wh a lot of fan hope and speculatn that she would be gay, but that never panned out.

Before the revelatn of Seven of Ne and Raffi's strongly implied relatnship, the anchise had largely taken tentative steps towards cludg homosexual and bisexual characters wh s mythos, met wh varyg levels of appreciatn and ntroversy. The 2016 film Star Trek Beyond, set the alternate Kelv timele, reimaged longtime helmsman Hika Sulu as a gay man a lovg marriage wh a dghter.

This pictn faced a mixed receptn, most notably om the character's origal actor Gee Takei who sisted the versn of the character he troduced the origal seri and envisned by anchise creator Gene Rodnberry had been heterosexual, ntrast to Takei's own homosexualy -- Takei's observatns on the character were siarly met wh divisivens. And as if that wasn't queer enough, Q then go on to tnt Jean-Luc about his relatnship wh Marta, the implitn beg that Q don't 's no wonr then that The Advote, even back 1995, cid to qutn Patrick Stewart about the possibily of Q beg queer — or "gay" as they put (terview reproduced here and here). " The Advote then went one step further wh this theory by suggtg that, "If Q is the eed nature of Pird, and Q might be gay, is there some possibily Pird is reprsg homoerotic parts of himself?

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Even Patrick Stewart himself was well aware of the homoerotic unrton of his character's relatnship wh Q, even if Pird didn't necsarily reciprote — or outright adm — those feelgs the same way that Q always be fair, was the '90s, so any homoeroticism to be found this iendship was forced to rema implic regardls. In an earlier 1991 issue of The Advote (via The Salon), Gene Rodnberry was quoted as sayg, "In the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generatn, viewers will see more of shipboard life some episos, which will clu gay crew members day-to-day circumstanc.

It was also a shame to Patrick Stewart as well, as far back as 1995 when he lamented the fact that no gay people uld see themselv on a show that's supposed to reprent a future utopia: "I thk gay people would probably feel dismayed, " Patrick told The Advote. It wasn't until Disvery arrived 2017 that not one, but two gay characters fally appeared the form of a uple.

IS JOHN PICKARD GAY?

However, wasn't long before the wrers unrmed all of this by killg off Culber early on, which fed to the old-fashned ia that gay characters should be punished – even killed – for beg who they are. Regardls of whether this was tend or not, the trope "Bury Your Gays" was ed for a reason, and seeg this play out yet aga such a quick fashn ma Star Trek feel more dated than ever 2018. CBSAsi om the volvement of gay lato actor Jonathan Del Ar, there's no ht of anythg remotely queer Pird's first three episos.

While the Star Trek anchise has long drawn members of the LGBTQ muny, and prompted speculatn that a number of characters throughout s long history f somewhere unr the LGBTQ umbrella themselv, the actual reprentatn has been slow very first openly gay Star Trek character didn’t e until 2017, when Star Trek: Disvery troduced married uple Pl Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Hugh Culber (Wilson Cz) now, Star Trek: Pird has given fans a new gift, seemgly revealg that a classic character has been queer all Ryan’s Seven of Ne was first troduced back Star Trek: Voyager, and while that seri didn’t explicly portray her character as queer, Pird has been htg at as much throughout the first season. ”But this isn’t a non-nonil, after-the-fact reveal a la “Dumbledore was gay all along.

"In 2017, gay actor Anthony Rapp began playg a gay character, Litenant Commanr Pl Stamets, on Star Trek: Disvery, which is still beg aired on CBS All Accs. In particular, though we fally have a gay uple on Disvery, there is this long and cur history of queer erasure on Star Trek.