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Contents:
- IN A GAY GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: 9 ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS WHO WE’VE DECID ARE QUEER
- STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
- STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
- 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
IN A GAY GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: 9 ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS WHO WE’VE DECID ARE QUEER
Abrams recently said that “of urse” gay characters would soon be seen the “Star Wars” galaxy.
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STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
He's even married to fellow Mandalorian warrr, Medr Vasur, makg them the first openly gay uple Star Wars history. In 2013, Sansweet was ved to participate a vio for the Gay Fay Valu blog, which featured the mega-Star Wars fan and his hband of more than 37 years, Bob. There are now officially gay characters the new Star Wars April 2014, Lusfilm announced they were relegatg all the existg "Expand Universe" material to "Legends" stat, makg way for a pletely tegrated and nonil Star Wars ntent landspe.
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
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Flix and Orka are a fully nonil gay uple. The game’s 2009 release mak Juhani one of the first openly gay characters (that didn’t get retnned) the Star Wars universe.
'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
A regular human, Rath is the first openly gay character the seri. 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.