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- STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE
- QUEER REPRENTATNS IN STAR WARSCHRISTOPH BüSCHER·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ARTMAGAZE·7 M READ·APR 1, 2017--LISTENSHAREMORE AND MORE ANCHIS HAVE RECENTLY EMBRACED NON-HETERONORMATIVE CHARACTERS. AND WHILE QUEER PLOT ELEMENTS ARE OFTEN BLOWN WAY OUT OF PROPORTN BY THE MEDIA (POWER RANGERS), THEY ARE WELE STEPS TOWARDS A MORE CLIVE ENTERTAMENT DTRY.WHEN TO SCIENCE FICTN, STAR TREK FAMOLY PICTED HIKA SULU GREETG HIS HBAND ON THE BIG SCREEN 2016’S STAR TREK BEYOND. THIS MAK YOU WONR: WHAT ABOUT THE SEND MASSIVE SCIFI ANCHISE? WHAT ABOUT STAR WARS?YOU PROBABLY NNOT REMEMBER ANY QUEER REPRENTATNS THE GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW, PECIALLY RECENT YEARS. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE NON-HETERONORMATIVE HABANTS OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY THAT WE’VE BEEN TRODUCED TO SO FAR.QUEER REPRENTATNS IN THE STAR WARS MOVITHE MOVI HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE RE OF THE STAR WARS ANCHISE. THERE HAVE BEEN NO FEWER THAN TEN SO FAR, UNTG THE FULL-LENGTH CLONE WARS MOVIE AND THE ILLTR HOLIDAY SPECIAL THAT TRODUCED TO BOBA FETT.IF YOU NOW FD YOURSELF STGGLG TO REMEMBER A DISTCTLY NON-HETERONORMATIVE CHARACTER ANY OF THE MOVI, THERE’S A SIMPLE REASON WHY: THERE HAVEN’T BEEN ANY. AT LEAST NOT YET.IN THE SE OF THE ORIGAL TRILOGY, THAT MAK SENSE TO SOME EXTENT. EPISOS IV TO VI WERE MEANT TO BE TRADNAL FANTASY STORI SET SPACE. THAT’S WHY THERE ARE PRCS, EMPERORS, KNIGHTS, AND SABERS THE STAR WARS GALAXY. IT’S ALSO THE REASON WHY THE PLOT OF THE ORIGAL TRILOGY IS — LET’S BE HONT — HARDLY REVOLUTNARY.HOWEVER, THAT DON’T EXPLA WHY THE PREQUELS AND SEQUELS, AS WELL AS THE CLONE WARS AND REBELS TV SERI, ARE HETERONORMATIVE DOWN TO THE RE. (THERE ARE CERTALY NUMERO FAN THEORI ABOUT POE DAMERON’S SEXUALY, BUT NOTHG HAS BEEN NFIRMED AS OF YET.)CONSEQUENTLY, THE ONLY CHARACTERS FEATURED THE STAR WARS MOVI ONE ULD SCRIBE AS SOMEWHAT QUEER MAY SURPRISE YOU: WE’RE TALKG ABOUT THE HUTTS. WHAT IS THAT MAK JABBA AND . SO TERTG, YOU WONR? READ ON AND YOU’LL FD OUT.HUTTS WH THEIR SLAVGENR IN STAR WARS LEGENDSSCE THE 80S, OFFICIAL STAR WARS STORI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED THE FORM OF NOVELS, ICS AND GAM. THEN ALONG ME DISNEY AND CID TO START OVER AGA, G ONLY THE MOVI AND TV SERI. THAT IS WHY ALL OTHER STORI OM BEFORE THE DISNEY ERA ARE NOW LLED STAR WARS LEGENDS, WHILE THOSE TEXTS PUBLISHED BY DISNEY FORM THE NEW STAR WARS NON.LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE OLR STAR WARS LEGENDS MATERIAL FIRST. THIS LEADS BACK TO THE HUTTS, THOSE BIG AND LAZY SLUG-LIKE CREATUR WE ALL LOVE TO SPISE. WHILE THEIR GENR INTI HAVE NEVER BEEN ADDRSED THE MOVI, WE LEARN ABOUT THEM SOME OF THE LEGENDS NOVELS. JEFF GBB’S SURGE PARTICULAR, WHICH IS SET THE HUTT UNRWORLD, SHEDS LIGHT ON THE SPECI.BLOGILLY, EVERY HUTT HAS BOTH MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERISTICS. YET, ALL HUTT CHARACTERS ARE REFERRED TO WH EHER MALE OR FEMALE PRONOUNS THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE. THIS SUGGTS THAT HUTTS ACTUALLY PICK A GENR TO THEIR LIKG. THEY THEN PERFORM THEIR EELY CHOSEN GENR BY, FOR STANCE, WEARG CERTA ACCSORI. HUTTS ARE BORN NAKED AND THE RT IS DRAG, RIGHT?“THE IA OF LLG ONE [HUTT] MALE OR FEMALE WAS UALLY LEFT TO THE OBSERVER. THE HUTTS THEMSELV SEEMED TO BE UNNCERNED ABOUT WHETHER THEY WERE MALE OR FEMALE AT ANY MOMENT.” (SURGE, P. 40)SURGE TELLS THAT HUTTS DON’T EVEN RE ABOUT GENR DISTCTNS. THEIR LANGUAGE, HUTTE, IS MOSTLY GENR-NTRAL, SO THAT GENRED PRONOUNS ARE ONLY ED BEE OF OUR HUMAN OBSSN WH STRICT GENR TEGORI. CONSEQUENTLY, HUTT CULTURE IS A PARTICULARLY TERTG EXAMPLE OF QUEERNS THE STAR WARS GALAXY.JABBA DILIJIC TIURE, A HUTT ADDRSED WH MALE PRONOUNSSEXUALY IN STAR WARS LEGENDSALRIGHT, SO HUTTS ARE GENR-QUEER. BUT WHAT ABOUT SEXUALY? FOR S, THERE WAS NO NON-HETEROSEXUAL CHARACTER STAR WARS. THEN, 2006, KAREN TRAVISS PUBLISHED BOBA FETT: A PRACTIL MAN.THE E-NOVELLA TRODUCED TO GORAN BEVI, A MARRIED MANDALORIAN SOLDIER WORKG CLOSELY WH FETT. BEVI’S PARTNER WAS LLED MEDR VASUR, BUT THEIR GENR WASN’T SPECIFIED. IT WAS ONLY TRAVISS’S 2007 NOVEL LEGACY OF THE FORCE: BLOODLE THAT WE LEARNED THAT VASUR IS A MAN, MAKG HIM AND BEVI THE FIRST OPENLY NON-HETEROSEXUAL UPLE STAR WARS.IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE MANDALORIAN UPLE ARE A FAR CRY OM STEREOTYPIL GAY CHARACTERS. BEVI IS A WARRR. HE’S ALSO ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL MANDALORIANS AND ONE OF THE VERY FEW PEOPLE THE LEGENDARY BOUNTY HUNTER BOBA FETT TLY TSTS. HIS HBAND VASUR IS A BLACKSMH AND SCRIBED AS A MOUNTA OF A MAN.THE TWO OF THEM HAVE ADOPTED A FEMALE WAR ORPHAN AND HELP HER RAISE HER KIDS. THEY’RE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE MANDALORIAN FAY MOL AS VENTED BY TRAVISS. FOR THE WARRR PEOPLE, TST AND RE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BLOODL, SPECI, OR, ED, SEXUALY.THE LACK OF STEREOTYPG AND THE FACT THAT BEVI AND VASUR’S SEXUALY DON’T AFFECT THEIR PLOTL AT ALL MAKE THIS A PARTICULARLY LDABLE REPRENTATN OF NON-HETERONORMATIVY A SUCCSFUL ANCHISE.BOBA FETT, THE MOST WELL-KNOWN MANDALORIANSEXUALY IN THE STAR WARS CANONDISNEY’S FAIRLY RECENT RTART OF THE STAR WARS ANCHISE HAS ALREADY GIVEN BIRTH TO MORE QUEER CHARACTERS THAN LEGENDS EVER DID. THE MAN WHO IS RPONSIBLE FOR THIS FEAT IS THOR CHUCK WENDIG — WH A LTLE HELP OM CLDIA GREY.WHILE GREY’S BRILLIANT NOVEL BLOODLE (NOT TO BE NFED WH TRAVISS’S BOOK) BRIEFLY MENTNS A MALE REBEL PILOT WHO’S HAVG AN AFFAIR WH A CORELLIAN MAN, WENDIG’S AFTERMATH TRILOGY ACTUALLY HAS AN OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER — A FIRST FOR STAR WARS.SJIR RATH VEL IS A FORMER IMPERIAL LOYALTY OFFICER, WHO JOS THE NEW REPUBLIC. HE’S AN ALHOLIC, A CYNIC, AND A SKILLED TORTURER. HE ALSO HAPPENS TO HAVE NO TERT WHATSOEVER WOMEN, AS WE LEARN AFTERMATH, THE FIRST BOOK OF THE TRILOGY. IN THE SEQUEL AFTERMATH: LIFE DEBT, SJIR FDS A BOYIEND NEW REPUBLIC SLICER CONR KYL.“SJIR STOPS AND KISS HIM. HIS LONG-FGERED HANDS PULL THE OTHER MAN’S SCFFY FACE TO HIS OWN. THE MOMENT LASTS FOREVER. AND STILL DON’T LAST LONG ENOUGH.” (EMPIRE’S END, P. 249)CONR ONLY HAS A SMALL ROLE LIFE DEBT, BUT RETURNS FOR THE FALE OF THE TRILOGY, AFTERMATH: EMPIRE’S END. THAT NOVEL TAILS SJIR AND CONR’S RELATNSHIP, OPENLY SHOWG THEIR AFFECTN FOR EACH OTHER AS WELL AS THEIR STGGL. JT LIKE KAREN TRAVISS’S MANDALORIAN UPLE, NEHER CONR NOR SJIR ARE STEREOTYPIL GAY CHARACTERS. SJIR, FOR STANCE, SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF THAT HE’S “MORE ED TO G PA THAN SOOTHG ” (EMPIRE’S END, P. 263).CHUCK WENDIG’S EMBRACE OF QUEER NOTNS DON’T END WH SIJR AND CONR. IN EMPIRE’S END, FOR STANCE, IMPERIAL GRAND ADMIRAL RAE SLOANE TELLS NEW REPUBLIC AGENT NORRA WEXLEY, “I NEVER HAD A HBAND OR A WIFE TO DIE MY HANDS” (P. 401), ACKNOWLEDGG NON-HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.CHUCK WENDIG’S ‘AFTERMATH’ TRILOGYGENR IN THE STAR WARS CANON
STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE
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QUEER REPRENTATNS IN STAR WARSCHRISTOPH BüSCHER·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ARTMAGAZE·7 M READ·APR 1, 2017--LISTENSHAREMORE AND MORE ANCHIS HAVE RECENTLY EMBRACED NON-HETERONORMATIVE CHARACTERS. AND WHILE QUEER PLOT ELEMENTS ARE OFTEN BLOWN WAY OUT OF PROPORTN BY THE MEDIA (POWER RANGERS), THEY ARE WELE STEPS TOWARDS A MORE CLIVE ENTERTAMENT DTRY.WHEN TO SCIENCE FICTN, STAR TREK FAMOLY PICTED HIKA SULU GREETG HIS HBAND ON THE BIG SCREEN 2016’S STAR TREK BEYOND. THIS MAK YOU WONR: WHAT ABOUT THE SEND MASSIVE SCIFI ANCHISE? WHAT ABOUT STAR WARS?YOU PROBABLY NNOT REMEMBER ANY QUEER REPRENTATNS THE GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW, PECIALLY RECENT YEARS. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE NON-HETERONORMATIVE HABANTS OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY THAT WE’VE BEEN TRODUCED TO SO FAR.QUEER REPRENTATNS IN THE STAR WARS MOVITHE MOVI HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE RE OF THE STAR WARS ANCHISE. THERE HAVE BEEN NO FEWER THAN TEN SO FAR, UNTG THE FULL-LENGTH CLONE WARS MOVIE AND THE ILLTR HOLIDAY SPECIAL THAT TRODUCED TO BOBA FETT.IF YOU NOW FD YOURSELF STGGLG TO REMEMBER A DISTCTLY NON-HETERONORMATIVE CHARACTER ANY OF THE MOVI, THERE’S A SIMPLE REASON WHY: THERE HAVEN’T BEEN ANY. AT LEAST NOT YET.IN THE SE OF THE ORIGAL TRILOGY, THAT MAK SENSE TO SOME EXTENT. EPISOS IV TO VI WERE MEANT TO BE TRADNAL FANTASY STORI SET SPACE. THAT’S WHY THERE ARE PRCS, EMPERORS, KNIGHTS, AND SABERS THE STAR WARS GALAXY. IT’S ALSO THE REASON WHY THE PLOT OF THE ORIGAL TRILOGY IS — LET’S BE HONT — HARDLY REVOLUTNARY.HOWEVER, THAT DON’T EXPLA WHY THE PREQUELS AND SEQUELS, AS WELL AS THE CLONE WARS AND REBELS TV SERI, ARE HETERONORMATIVE DOWN TO THE RE. (THERE ARE CERTALY NUMERO FAN THEORI ABOUT POE DAMERON’S SEXUALY, BUT NOTHG HAS BEEN NFIRMED AS OF YET.)CONSEQUENTLY, THE ONLY CHARACTERS FEATURED THE STAR WARS MOVI ONE ULD SCRIBE AS SOMEWHAT QUEER MAY SURPRISE YOU: WE’RE TALKG ABOUT THE HUTTS. WHAT IS THAT MAK JABBA AND . SO TERTG, YOU WONR? READ ON AND YOU’LL FD OUT.HUTTS WH THEIR SLAVGENR IN STAR WARS LEGENDSSCE THE 80S, OFFICIAL STAR WARS STORI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED THE FORM OF NOVELS, ICS AND GAM. THEN ALONG ME DISNEY AND CID TO START OVER AGA, G ONLY THE MOVI AND TV SERI. THAT IS WHY ALL OTHER STORI OM BEFORE THE DISNEY ERA ARE NOW LLED STAR WARS LEGENDS, WHILE THOSE TEXTS PUBLISHED BY DISNEY FORM THE NEW STAR WARS NON.LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE OLR STAR WARS LEGENDS MATERIAL FIRST. THIS LEADS BACK TO THE HUTTS, THOSE BIG AND LAZY SLUG-LIKE CREATUR WE ALL LOVE TO SPISE. WHILE THEIR GENR INTI HAVE NEVER BEEN ADDRSED THE MOVI, WE LEARN ABOUT THEM SOME OF THE LEGENDS NOVELS. JEFF GBB’S SURGE PARTICULAR, WHICH IS SET THE HUTT UNRWORLD, SHEDS LIGHT ON THE SPECI.BLOGILLY, EVERY HUTT HAS BOTH MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERISTICS. YET, ALL HUTT CHARACTERS ARE REFERRED TO WH EHER MALE OR FEMALE PRONOUNS THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE. THIS SUGGTS THAT HUTTS ACTUALLY PICK A GENR TO THEIR LIKG. THEY THEN PERFORM THEIR EELY CHOSEN GENR BY, FOR STANCE, WEARG CERTA ACCSORI. HUTTS ARE BORN NAKED AND THE RT IS DRAG, RIGHT?“THE IA OF LLG ONE [HUTT] MALE OR FEMALE WAS UALLY LEFT TO THE OBSERVER. THE HUTTS THEMSELV SEEMED TO BE UNNCERNED ABOUT WHETHER THEY WERE MALE OR FEMALE AT ANY MOMENT.” (SURGE, P. 40)SURGE TELLS THAT HUTTS DON’T EVEN RE ABOUT GENR DISTCTNS. THEIR LANGUAGE, HUTTE, IS MOSTLY GENR-NTRAL, SO THAT GENRED PRONOUNS ARE ONLY ED BEE OF OUR HUMAN OBSSN WH STRICT GENR TEGORI. CONSEQUENTLY, HUTT CULTURE IS A PARTICULARLY TERTG EXAMPLE OF QUEERNS THE STAR WARS GALAXY.JABBA DILIJIC TIURE, A HUTT ADDRSED WH MALE PRONOUNSSEXUALY IN STAR WARS LEGENDSALRIGHT, SO HUTTS ARE GENR-QUEER. BUT WHAT ABOUT SEXUALY? FOR S, THERE WAS NO NON-HETEROSEXUAL CHARACTER STAR WARS. THEN, 2006, KAREN TRAVISS PUBLISHED BOBA FETT: A PRACTIL MAN.THE E-NOVELLA TRODUCED TO GORAN BEVI, A MARRIED MANDALORIAN SOLDIER WORKG CLOSELY WH FETT. BEVI’S PARTNER WAS LLED MEDR VASUR, BUT THEIR GENR WASN’T SPECIFIED. IT WAS ONLY TRAVISS’S 2007 NOVEL LEGACY OF THE FORCE: BLOODLE THAT WE LEARNED THAT VASUR IS A MAN, MAKG HIM AND BEVI THE FIRST OPENLY NON-HETEROSEXUAL UPLE STAR WARS.IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE MANDALORIAN UPLE ARE A FAR CRY OM STEREOTYPIL GAY CHARACTERS. BEVI IS A WARRR. HE’S ALSO ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL MANDALORIANS AND ONE OF THE VERY FEW PEOPLE THE LEGENDARY BOUNTY HUNTER BOBA FETT TLY TSTS. HIS HBAND VASUR IS A BLACKSMH AND SCRIBED AS A MOUNTA OF A MAN.THE TWO OF THEM HAVE ADOPTED A FEMALE WAR ORPHAN AND HELP HER RAISE HER KIDS. THEY’RE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE MANDALORIAN FAY MOL AS VENTED BY TRAVISS. FOR THE WARRR PEOPLE, TST AND RE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BLOODL, SPECI, OR, ED, SEXUALY.THE LACK OF STEREOTYPG AND THE FACT THAT BEVI AND VASUR’S SEXUALY DON’T AFFECT THEIR PLOTL AT ALL MAKE THIS A PARTICULARLY LDABLE REPRENTATN OF NON-HETERONORMATIVY A SUCCSFUL ANCHISE.BOBA FETT, THE MOST WELL-KNOWN MANDALORIANSEXUALY IN THE STAR WARS CANONDISNEY’S FAIRLY RECENT RTART OF THE STAR WARS ANCHISE HAS ALREADY GIVEN BIRTH TO MORE QUEER CHARACTERS THAN LEGENDS EVER DID. THE MAN WHO IS RPONSIBLE FOR THIS FEAT IS THOR CHUCK WENDIG — WH A LTLE HELP OM CLDIA GREY.WHILE GREY’S BRILLIANT NOVEL BLOODLE (NOT TO BE NFED WH TRAVISS’S BOOK) BRIEFLY MENTNS A MALE REBEL PILOT WHO’S HAVG AN AFFAIR WH A CORELLIAN MAN, WENDIG’S AFTERMATH TRILOGY ACTUALLY HAS AN OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER — A FIRST FOR STAR WARS.SJIR RATH VEL IS A FORMER IMPERIAL LOYALTY OFFICER, WHO JOS THE NEW REPUBLIC. HE’S AN ALHOLIC, A CYNIC, AND A SKILLED TORTURER. HE ALSO HAPPENS TO HAVE NO TERT WHATSOEVER WOMEN, AS WE LEARN AFTERMATH, THE FIRST BOOK OF THE TRILOGY. IN THE SEQUEL AFTERMATH: LIFE DEBT, SJIR FDS A BOYIEND NEW REPUBLIC SLICER CONR KYL.“SJIR STOPS AND KISS HIM. HIS LONG-FGERED HANDS PULL THE OTHER MAN’S SCFFY FACE TO HIS OWN. THE MOMENT LASTS FOREVER. AND STILL DON’T LAST LONG ENOUGH.” (EMPIRE’S END, P. 249)CONR ONLY HAS A SMALL ROLE LIFE DEBT, BUT RETURNS FOR THE FALE OF THE TRILOGY, AFTERMATH: EMPIRE’S END. THAT NOVEL TAILS SJIR AND CONR’S RELATNSHIP, OPENLY SHOWG THEIR AFFECTN FOR EACH OTHER AS WELL AS THEIR STGGL. JT LIKE KAREN TRAVISS’S MANDALORIAN UPLE, NEHER CONR NOR SJIR ARE STEREOTYPIL GAY CHARACTERS. SJIR, FOR STANCE, SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF THAT HE’S “MORE ED TO G PA THAN SOOTHG ” (EMPIRE’S END, P. 263).CHUCK WENDIG’S EMBRACE OF QUEER NOTNS DON’T END WH SIJR AND CONR. IN EMPIRE’S END, FOR STANCE, IMPERIAL GRAND ADMIRAL RAE SLOANE TELLS NEW REPUBLIC AGENT NORRA WEXLEY, “I NEVER HAD A HBAND OR A WIFE TO DIE MY HANDS” (P. 401), ACKNOWLEDGG NON-HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.CHUCK WENDIG’S ‘AFTERMATH’ TRILOGYGENR IN THE STAR WARS CANON
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. Although Bevi and Vasur were Star Wars’ first gay uple, none of their appearanc the novels explicly noted that they were married.