'Star Trek' Introduc Its First Gay Couple to the Universe

Contents:

• SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
• STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
• WHY STAR TREK BEYOND COULDN’T SIMPLY SHOW A GAY COUPLE BEG GAY
• ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY
• STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
• LONGTIME CHARACTER REVEALED TO BE GAY 2016’S “STAR TREK BEYOND” CROSSWORD CLUE
• FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS

SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY

In 1991, Gene Rodnberry ma a statement on his plans to clu gay characters Star Trek: The Next Generatn, but followg his ath shortly afterwards, the productn team were slow to follow up on his promis.

Throughout the 1990s, fans were engaged letter-wrg mpaigns askg for gay characters, some of which were endorsed by actors appearg the anchise, but the rponse om Paramount was at bt dismissive and at worst outright hostile. The episo gets plenty wrong – nflatg havg no genr wh asexualy, g a character who is sentially transgenr as a metaphor for gay people whout really realizg that was what they were dog, and assumg that androgyno people would tomatilly wear drab clothg and have bad haircuts (a quick Google Imag search of “nonbary style” will show you how far off the mark that is). The ill-fated AIDS-allegory episo Blood And Fire, wrten by David Gerrold, would have featured actual human gay characters, but was shot down at the script stage.

Deep Space Ne did do a ltle better than s sister shows terms of sual background queerns – Jadzia isn’t thrown by the ia of gay Ferengi, Bashir and O’Brien happily plan a baby shower for a pregnant male lleague, several characters the Mirror Universe are queer – but they missed jt as many opportuni as The Next Generatn and Voyager. Litenant Hawk, a mor on-screen character Star Trek: First Contact, was wrten as a gay man, but referenc to were removed om later versns of the script. Jeri Taylor’s Pathways, which explor the life stori of the crew of Voyager, featur a background gay uple and a gay Starfleet Amy roommate for Harry Kim.

STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

The Starfleet Corps of Engeers novels feature a gay uple, and the DS9 relnch books feature a lbian uple.

One gay ma character would have been phg the envelope for The Next Generatn, but now, well to the twenty-first century and wh queer characters creasgly visible film and televisn (egreg mortaly rat notwhstandg), if Star Trek wants to mata s reputatn of beg ahead of the curve on social issu, needs to do better than that. Fans are hopeful that Bryan Fuller, the shownner of the new Star Trek seri set to land early 2017, who is gay himself, unrstands that and is ready to explore the full range of possibili. We don’t jt want one gay character.

We want to see well-round gay, lbian and bisexual characters who have more gog on than their sexualy. One of the “Star Trek” universe’s most beloved characters is revealed to be gay the latt stallment of the inic anchise.

WHY STAR TREK BEYOND COULDN’T SIMPLY SHOW A GAY COUPLE BEG GAY

“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.

‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY

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. So why did DS9’s producers ci to take such a huge risk wh a gay uple on their new show? Creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be gay characters, and wrer David Gerrold even wrote a script to fulfill that promise for TNG’s first season.

They axed the script wh two gay men; when Gene proposed showg same-sex upl the background, they told a wrer to ignore him. Years later, shownner and wrer Ira Steven Behr would exprs remorse at their failure to plumb those pths, and said that he wished they’d had Garak e out as gay so they uld have explored the relatnship further. Even better, brought some long-overdue LGBTQIA reprentatn to the Trek universe by makg Kelv Universe Hika Sulu gay and givg him a hband.

STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE

**SPOILER ALERT IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO THE FILM COMPLETELY UNSULLIED** Lately, there seems to be a lot of yns around beg gay large film anchis. It’s disappotg to know that Hollywood studs (who have plenty of LGBTQIA people workg all up and down them mo-fos) still feel so squeamish about actually showg gay people beg openly affectnate. If televisn n manage to not be squeamish about two gay characters showg affectn toward each other, you sure as hell have no reason to!

We now know that the Kelv Universe versn of Hika Sulu is gay. But you n’t see gay the way you n see race or genr or physil abily. So, if you’re really terted creasg LGBTQIA reprentatn  mastream blockbter films, sayg a character is gay isn’t enough.

In a tribute to his ongog legacy as an in of the Star Trek anchise, wrer Simon Pegg and director Jt L cid make Sulu nonilly gay the upg movie. While Hollywood still has a long way to go terms of queer reprentatn, feels appropriate for Star Trek to be the first big sci-fi anchise to clu a gay character s ma st. Star Trek: Disvery has boldly gone where no Star Trek show has gone CBS: All Accs drama troduced a gay uple to s dience Sunday -- a first the long-nng televisn anchise.

LONGTIME CHARACTER REVEALED TO BE GAY 2016’S “STAR TREK BEYOND” CROSSWORD CLUE

Pl Stamets, ma history when he was troduced episo 3, beg the first clearly gay character this universe. 1508180517Star Trek: Disvery was -created by an out gay man, Bryan Fuller. Although Fuller has left the seri due to schlg nflicts, Aaron Harberts, who is also gay, remas as the shownner.

Longtime character revealed to be gay 2016s Star Trek Beyond NYT Crossword Clue Answers are listed below and every time we fd a new solutn for this clue, we add on the answers list down below. LONGTIME CHARACTER REVEALED TO BE GAY IN 2016S STAR TREK BEYOND Crossword Answer.

And as the gay rights movement gaed tractn all across the untry after 1969, fans hoped Trek would fally clu a gay character.

FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS

When The Next Generatn premiered 1987, an openly gay character was still pretty much out of the qutn on a “fay show. The seri that had been on the foreont of clivy was now extremely sheepish about cludg a regular gay st member. So when Disvery fally announced they were addg not merely a sgle gay character as a seri regular but a gay uple, the form of Lt.

For a gay Trekker myself, after wag years to see proper LGBT reprentatn among the regular st of a Star Trek seri, was like reopeng an old wound and pourg salt .

The fact that he was killed off so soon after beg troduced, and such an offhand way, relled the way gay characters were “punished” for beg who they are old Hollywood films, and felt credibly outdated 2018. More than halfway through Pri Month, the LBGT+ staff here at TrekMovie thought the perfect time to brg a ltle gayns to your life. And what better way to unwd durg the tough tim than wh a gay Star Trek marathon?