J.J. Abrams Says There Will Be Gay Characters In "Star Wars"

Contents:

• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
• 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
• WHY SOME 'STAR WARS' FANS THK THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE GAY
• DISNEY TRILOGY FANS CLAIM LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA CONFIRMS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN FN AND POE
• ARE STAR WARS' FN AND POE A GAY COUPLE? HERE'S WHAT JOHN BOYEGA SAYS
• STAR WARS WILL HAVE GAYS SAYS JJ ABRAMS & JOHN BOYEGA CONFIRMS FN AND POE GAY MOURS
• J.J. ABRAMS SAYS THERE WILL BE GAY CHARACTERS IN "STAR WARS"
• OSR ISAAC WISH POE AND FN WERE GAY ‘STAR WARS’ BUT ‘PEOPLE ARE TOO AAID’
• ARE POE & FN A GAY COUPLE STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS?
• WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET A GAY CHARACTER STAR WARS?
• J.J. ABRAMS 'WOULD LOVE' TO SEE GAY CHARACTERS STAR WARS MOVI
• STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker se two gay characters share a kiss, markg a tone anchise history.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ma anchise history by featurg two gay characters kiss on screen.

STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT

Disney actually removed the kiss om The Rise of Skywalker natns wh strict laws surroundg homosexual relatnships. In Sgapore, male homosexual acts are technilly illegal. Female homosexual acts are legal, but the The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss was removed anyway, so that the film uld mata s PG-13 ratg.

'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY

Dubai cut the kiss too, as all homosexual relatnships are agast the law  Uned Arab Emirat. On the other end of the spectm, The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss also me unr cricism for not gog far enough.

WHY SOME 'STAR WARS' FANS THK THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE GAY

But sce dienc had no attachment to the characters, there was no emotnal payoff to this quick reprentatn for gay characters.

Marvel touted their first-ever gay character leadg up to Avengers: Endgame.

That reprentatn only end up beg -director Joe Rso meog as a gay man who discs an upg date. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss was a baby step the right directn, but not enough to be nsired legimate LGBTQ reprentatn. More: Onward’s Gay Character Prov Disney’s Reprentatn Problem.

DISNEY TRILOGY FANS CLAIM LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA CONFIRMS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN FN AND POE

The first nonilly gay character was troduced the 2015 novel Lords of the Sh.

Earlier this year, Avengers: Endgame featured Marvel’s first openly gay character. “We’ve done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi.

ARE STAR WARS' FN AND POE A GAY COUPLE? HERE'S WHAT JOHN BOYEGA SAYS

Aga, the moment was highly touted by director Bill Condon, who lled an “exclively gay moment a Disney movie.

It seemed the Star Wars universe might troduce s first gay characters 2016’s Rogue One wh Chirt (Donnie Yen) and Baze (Jiang Wen); however, their relatnship was kept platonic. Marvel’s The Eternals is said to have a gay character and Thor: Ragnarok‘s Tsa Thompson has said she pched and played her character as bisexual, as she is the ics; however, none of her appearanc Marvel films th far have portrayed her this way.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker may not have Baby Yoda, but do feature the first-ever gay kiss the 40-pl year history of the anchise. "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" will feature the anchise's first gay kiss. And, perhaps most tertgly: Are Poe and Fn gay?

STAR WARS WILL HAVE GAYS SAYS JJ ABRAMS & JOHN BOYEGA CONFIRMS FN AND POE GAY MOURS

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. Some fans of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga have claimed that a scene the game has nfirmed a gay romance between Fn and Poe.

Abrams nclud that as he strived to st Star Wars wh people who “looked more the way the world looks than not, ” that also applied to gay characters. When prsed for if Rise of Skywalker would have a gay character, Abrams rpond while sg “I will say I’m givg away nothg about what happens the movie. Prr to Rise of Skywalker’s release, Issac put the blame at the lack of gay reprentatn at the feet of his own boss.

J.J. ABRAMS SAYS THERE WILL BE GAY CHARACTERS IN "STAR WARS"

While that may have been te of Disney boss of 2019, seems Disney are now extremely eager to show more gay characters, pecially li of their polil battle Florida.

As seen a prevly leaked pany email, CEO Bob Chapek had origally stated that Disney would not be openly opposg the Florida Parental Rights Edutn bill (falsely dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill) as spe beg a “force for cln, ” he did not want the pany to bee “a polil football.

OSR ISAAC WISH POE AND FN WERE GAY ‘STAR WARS’ BUT ‘PEOPLE ARE TOO AAID’

Subsidiari such as Marvel followed soon after, and Disney has sce gone on to clare their tent to have the law repealed or stck down and ph a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda.

ARE POE & FN A GAY COUPLE STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS?

HOME News Royal Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Fance Travel Entertament Life & Style Films Gamg Mic Books Theatre Exprs Ws STAR WARS will have gay characters the new films, says director JJ Abrams, fuellg the mours of a gay romance between John Boyega's Fn and Osr Isaac's Poe Star Wars Episo VIII. 03:28, Sun, Feb 28, 2016 | UPDATED: 17:57, Tue, Oct 10, 2017 TWITTER/GETTYOsr Issacs and John Boyega fan the romance moursUPDATE: JJ Abrams has spoken out for the first time to addrs the growg fan mours and petns for gay characters the Star Wars universe.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET A GAY CHARACTER STAR WARS?

"So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world. ”“When I talk about clivy ’s not excludg gay characters, " he add.

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J.J. ABRAMS 'WOULD LOVE' TO SEE GAY CHARACTERS STAR WARS MOVI

But a) at this pot, we didn’t know anythg about how Fn and Poe would teract the movie, so there was no big homoerotic subtext-y -joke to wk and nudge elbows at, and b) Osr Isaac really don’t seem like the kd of guy who would play up a no-homo bromance for lghs.

I’m not actually stg here tryg to nvce you that Poe Dameron is gay. Handsome, darg, feisty, vicly petent, sweet, elegant… and gay, some part of my own queer subnsc immediately whispered to me.

I’m pretty sure he’s meant to be gay. My love triangle theory, if Poe is ed gay, is that he’s attracted to Fn but won’t end up wh him – through this plot, we’d learn that he’s queer, and will eher be heartbreakg or a “more (male) fish the sea, still love ya, buddy” suatn.

STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.

Some people look for, or actively vent, queer pairgs to ship every fandom, and that’s fe, but ’s not me, and this scenar, I’m more vted the ia of this one character beg gay, wh no romance volved, than shippg a queer ship that will probably never e to pass.