Anthony Rapp steps to the role of gay Star Trek: Disvery character Lt. Stamets, while Doug Jon is st as a new alien member of Starfleet.
Contents:
- FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
- DO ‘STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS’ NEED ‘SUAL GAYS?’
- SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
- GEE TAKEI EXPLAS WHY THERE WERE NO GAY CHARACTERS ON STAR TREK
- BRANNON BRAGA EXPLAS WHY NO GAY CHARACTERS ON STAR TREK: NOT FORWARD THKG
- STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
For the first time s 51-year history, the seri will feature a gay romance on the new CBS reboot. * gay characters star trek *
Leonard Nemoy himself gave support 1991, sayg, "It is entirely ftg that gays and lbians will appear unobtsively aboard the Enterprise—neher objects of py nor melodramatic attentn.
However, this is not somethg that is unique to Star Trek: Disvery, even if that is the first seri to pict openly gay characters. There is an argument that may not be valid, though Gene Rodnberry himself said that before he died, he had planned to troduce gay characters. More than halfway through Pri Month, the LBGT+ staff here at TrekMovie thought the perfect time to brg a ltle gayns to your life.
DO ‘STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS’ NEED ‘SUAL GAYS?’
And what better way to unwd durg the tough tim than wh a gay Star Trek marathon?
But, spe Trek not havg any openly gay characters for s first five s, there’s a lot of LGBT+ love to go around. This isn’t exactly a “rah rah we love the gays” moment, but ’s too funny not to clu.
Jadzia Normaliz Gay Romance DS9’s “Rul of Acquisn”.
SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
While you uld argue that this isn’t a gay Trek moment ( lerally isn’t—that’s the pot of the scene), ’s still a msage about the general acceptance of LGBT+ people the 24th century.
It’s so monplace that beg gay is ls of an issue for Pel than beg a woman is.
While Dax was already one of the most socially liberal characters Star Trek, ’s still a nice feelg to see someone assumed to be gay get treated like a normal person. Jt bee ’s one of Trek’s “gayt moments” don’t mean ’s one of our favore on. In realy, we’re jt as discerng as straight or gay folks—’s jt that genr don’t terme whether or not we are attracted to someone.
GEE TAKEI EXPLAS WHY THERE WERE NO GAY CHARACTERS ON STAR TREK
Not all gay moments are great moments…. Garak is gay! Andrew Robson gave Garak such chaotic gay energy that me through like twenty pounds of prosthetics.
This was a big moment Star Trek history: the first openly gay character Star Trek. And, as we’ve monstrated here, there have been clearly LGBT+ characters Trek before, but that don’t tract om the importance of this moment, this small blk-and-you-miss- moment between Sulu, his hband, and their dghter that means fally, ’s official: Star Trek has a gay character!
) The origal Hika Sulu, Gee Takei (who is gay himself) took issue wh makg Sulu gay Beyond. Sulu’s brief fatherly moment Star Trek Beyond may have been the first stance of an openly gay character on Trek, but there is no nyg that Jadzia Dax was the first openly LGBT+ (emphasis on the pl) character on Star Trek. Ined, Dax’s entire existence uld fill this sectn, but we’ll also highlight a uple of key “gay” Dax moments throughout Deep Space Ne.
BRANNON BRAGA EXPLAS WHY NO GAY CHARACTERS ON STAR TREK: NOT FORWARD THKG
The first is the famo “gay kiss. This is WAY too gay not to mentn.
In the end, this episo is basilly Star Trek acknowledgg that self wasn’t ready to be open to gay characters, when Beverly adms that her unwillgns to nsir ntug a relatnship after her boyiend transned is her own failg. Comg at the number one top gayt moment Star Trek uldn’t be anythg except for the relatnship between Hugh Culber and Pl Stamets.
The first openly gay characters on a Star Trek televisn show. Not jt a gay moment, but a full-on lovg gay relatnship and wh characters that aren’t jt tired old stereotyp! Maybe a transgenr character, a lbian uple, or a gay uple.
STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
” i need star trek to have sual gays. User @roswordsman replied by notg that the Kelv universe acknowledged a nonilly gay Sulu subtly as opposed to any flourish, self-ngratulatory or otherwise. It don’t have to be THIS IS A GAY RELATIONSHIP SHIP more jt this is them.
But that’s not gog to stop Strange New Worlds om examg what that growth means for everyone the surface “Lost In Translatn, ” the sixth episo of the season, brgs to Strange New Worlds’ sophomore two elements om s but that have been so far missg: a foc on Celia Rose Goodg’s now-Ensign Uhura, who has not been given the spotlight like this sce the seri’ send-ever episo, and a twge of horror takg a leaf out of the playbook the show has already effectively ed s enunters wh the Gorn. One of the “Star Trek” universe’s most beloved characters is revealed to be gay the latt stallment of the inic anchise. “I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thg out , which is where I hope we are gog as a speci, to not policize one’s personal orientatns, ” he and Pegg’s cisn to pict Sulu as a gay man was a nod to Gee Takei, who played the role the origal 1960s “Star Trek” televisn seri and six subsequent films, Cho said.
Takei, 79, me out as gay 2005, and has sce gone on to bee an outspoken advote for LGBT rights. UPDATE: After news of this story broke, Takei lled the cisn to pict Sulu as a gay man “really unfortunate” a Hollywood Reporter terview. It foced on a serial killer operatg wh New York Cy's gay muny, and Quto's character was a morally bankpt art aler whose pursu of pleasure through pa bld him to the torment he flicted on others.