The Inter has strong opns as to whether C-3PO and R2-D2 are gay – The Pop Culture Experiment

Contents:

• C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
• THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
• MAJOR DISAPPOTMENT: J.J. ABRAMS HAS REVEALED THAT FN AND POE ARE BOTH GAY, BUT DON’T REALLY VIBE WH EACH OTHER ROMANTILLY
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”

Gee Lus a rare terview admted that the popular C-3PO character was origally based on his gay iend, Josh Templar, who helped him sign some of the Star Wars characters at the time. This would make C-3PO, a humanoid robot character played by Anthony Daniels, the first officially gay character of the Star Wars movie seri. “At first, C-3PO was not tend to be a robot but a Morphlak, a humanoid speci that were only of male genr, but the stud wasn’t too open about the ia of a gay character, let alone a whole pla stag a gay speci” he remembers.

Although 20th Century Fox ially cricized the ia to have a gay character the seri, Gee Lus got his way around by hirg Anthony Daniels, one of the rare outspoken and openly gay actors at the time. “We told him about the character’s homosexual clatns but not to make too visibly “open”, due to the producers reticence. He surprised by takg a gay Brish accent which we believed was jt pure geni, that’s how the character took place and is ankly one of the most popular characters of the seri wh his pann R2-D2, as everybody knows” he acknowledged.

THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY

Abrams has also revealed a recent terview that the newt episo of the anchise would be troducg a major new gay character to the Star Wars Universe. Abrams said last year that he expected gay characters to play a part the diversy of the future movi, many fans had hop he was referrg to Poe and Fn.

The speculatn that C-3PO and R2-D2 were gay is not new, as fans have bated (and joked about) that possibily on msage boards for at least a . That C-3PO uld not have any type of sexual or emotnal relatnship is sendary to our societal need to thk that jt bee he “acts gay” he mt be gay. While my peers uldn’t stop talkg about Le Skywalker, Prcs Leia, and Han Solo, as a neophyte gay I knew the real story was about the robots: ‘Gay’ C-3PO and ‘lbian’ R2-D2.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

We all know neher had a romantic attachment, but the signs were all there for a young gay kid lookg for validatn a culture where there was none (m the parable soul sger-songwrer Sylvter).

” But that is bi the pot, bee early on, Whers tablished his characterizatn of the droids was admtedly not about the droids but “a young gay kid lookg for validatn a culture where there was none. C-3PO’s behavr might seem stereotypilly gay, but that’s not gog to be enough for today’s dienc to pass as actual LGBTQ reprentatn. In the midst of our growg natnal bate about the role of the tradnal fay and ’s impact on a child, Hollywood has once aga stretched the tth to show “look, ’s ok to have gay parents, they n raise a kid together jt fe!

In his 1948 book, Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey shocked the world by announcg that 10% of the male populatn is gay.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

A 1993 Jan Report timated that ne percent of men and five percent of women had more than "ocsnal" homosexual relatnships. But when Gallup asked Amerins for their bt timate of the Amerin gay and lbian populatn, the rults ma all the figur mentned above look nservative.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

In Augt 2002*, Gallup asked Amerins, an open-end format, to timate the percentage of Amerin men and the percentage of Amerin women who are homosexual.

Before the 1980s, the few reprentatns of homosexualy popular culture tend to nsist of potentially dangero social viants (thk Norman Bat Psycho).

THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL

In the last 10 years, the number of Amerins sayg they feel homosexualy should be nsired an acceptable alternative liftyle has gone om 38% (June 1992) to 51% (May 2002). "Seeg ourselv reflected posively enurag gay people to e out, " said Cathy Renna, news media director for the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD).

MAJOR DISAPPOTMENT: J.J. ABRAMS HAS REVEALED THAT FN AND POE ARE BOTH GAY, BUT DON’T REALLY VIBE WH EACH OTHER ROMANTILLY

" If you doubt that Ellen, Rosie and others have had an effect on Amerins' acceptance of homosexualy, nsir this -- MTV and Showtime are about to lnch a ble channel directed at the homosexual market. Whether creased acceptance of homosexualy has led to an upsurge the number of posive media portrayals of gay characters or vice versa, one rult seems to be that Amerins now tend to overtimate the gay populatn Ameri. While most expert timat place Ameri's homosexual populatn at 10% or ls, Amerins tend to gus that the number is higher, around 20%.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

*Rults based on telephone terviews wh 489 (for those timatg percentag of lbian women) and 518 (for those timatg percentag of gay men) nducted May 6-9, 2002. ” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other.

Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual). Keep md that even if you have a sexual experience wh someone of the same genr or another genr, that don’t necsarily mean that you’re gay.