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.
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6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!
Disvery, which premiered September of 2017, is notable for beg the first Star Trek seri to feature openly and explicly gay ma characters played by LGBTQ+ actors, like Pl Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp), Dr. The first openly gay characters the Star Trek televisn universe weren’t troduced until the first season of Star Trek: Disvery 2017.
(Although is worth notg that the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond is tablished that the Hika Sulu of the Kelv Timele, portrayed by John Cho, is gay — a nod to Gee Takei, who origated the role of Sulu Star Trek: The Origal Seri and publicly me out as gay 2005.). Hugh Culber, portrayed by out actors Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz, are the first openly gay characters and the first gay uple portrayed the central st of a Star Trek tv show. There is one disappotg moment where seems that Disvery is playg to the “bury your gays” trope wh the (spoiler alert!) murr of Hugh Culber.
The team behd the show sist that his short-lived ath isn’t a “bury your gays” moment, wh executive producer Aaron Harberts sayg an terview wh IndieWire: “It was sential that this crime not be gratuo. He’s not killed bee he’s gay. In the mid- to late-1980s, a group of science fictn fans formed a group lled the Gaylactic Network wh the tly credible slogan, “Out of the closet and to the universe.”.