On Star Wars Day 2017, LGBT fans are g to together to celebrate #GayTheFourth, hop of persuadg Disney to broan the anchise's horizons.
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On Star Wars Day 2017, LGBT fans are g to together to celebrate #GayTheFourth, hop of persuadg Disney to broan the anchise's horizons. Many of the books nta referenc to LGBT characters, and Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath trilogy featur the multi-platform universe’s first gay protagonist.
In fact, until Bety and the Beast let LeFou out of the closet earlier this year (albe a blk-and-you'll-miss- moment), there had never been an overtly gay character featured a Disney movie. Bert’s dghter is gay, and an terview he explaed that he feels the urge to fend others like her:. When the homophobia of the town which they lived began negatively affectg his dghter, Bert began to bee more aware of the harmful msag that are prent media:.
Last year, Star Trek Beyond ma headl and Trek history by revealg Sulu to be gay and happily married wh a hband and a dghter. He’s heroic, charmg, and overall a good person; to have him be the first major gay protagonist a Star Wars film would provi posive reprentatn for young kids watchg.
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Now you have two reasons to celebrate. The foundg of our untry, and the foundg of the morn LGBT Civil Rights movement, long before Stonewall. On July 4, 1965, a group of urageo gay and lbian activists om New York, Washgton, D.C., and Philalphia laid the foundatn for the anized LGBT civil rights movement wh monstratns * gay the 4th *
If I had my dream, we would get a gay ma character who uld embody a hero who lov and fights and sacrific for his iends.
The other se, Twter, has a more laidback atmosphere, and is here that the #GayTheFourth anizers have gathered. #GayTheFourth is the name of an event schled for May 4th, otherwise known as Star Wars Day.
This don’t stop at a sgle gay character; the fans are hopg for both genr and sexual diversy. One #GayTheFourth anizer, Yav, has been a lifelong Star Wars fan, but only recently noticed the lack of LGBT reprentatn the films:.
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They n still blow up the Death Star and be gay or bi or trans. This small segment of fans, who affectnately refer to themselv as “Gay Star Wars Twter, ” are passnate Star Wars fans like any other.
Already, #GayTheFourth has been met wh some backlash om fans who loudly proclaim that gay characters beg clud is “propaganda, ” or that sexualy has no place the Star Wars universe, which is ironic given that each trilogy so far has featured a proment love story. This kd of homophobia is tirg. Aftermath thor Chuck Wendig voiced a siar thought when rpondg to crics of the gay protagonist his trilogy.
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“If you n image a world where Le Skywalker would be irrated that there were gay people around him, you pletely missed the pot of Star Wars.
” Mark Hal himself has even enuraged fans to read Le as gay, explag, "I'd say is meant to be terpreted by the viewer... If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is. The #GayTheFourth movement is not necsarily a movement that is loudly mandg that ’s voice be heard.
Gay— Carrie Fisher (@rrieffisher) September 20, 2009. The foundg of our untry, and the foundg of the morn LGBT Civil Rights movement, long before July 4, 1965, a group of urageo gay and lbian activists om New York, Washgton, D. Known as “Annual Remrs, ” the protts of East Coast Homophile Organizatns (ECHO) occurred every Fourth of July om 1965 to 2015 they memorated the 50th anniversary of the Annual Remrs, the Gay Pneers who staged them, and a half century of LGBT civil right the 1960s, there were approximately 200 gay activists the natn.