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6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!
Dpe beg known as a lear terms of genr and racial tegratn, wasn't until 2017 that the first openly gay characters were troduced a Star Trek televisn show. We talk to curator Margaret Weekamp about Star Trek's history wh LGBTQ+ stori and characters. * star trek actors who are gay *
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And of urse, they'll be fans who say, ‘”Oh, they’re killg off the gays aga! Ennis: As a pneer Star Trek, terms of beg an out gay man, playg a gay character, a relatnship wh another man, do you see that the unfoldg of havg non-bary characters like Adira and a trans character, even a ghostly versn, how do that make you feel terms of the craft and and our muny? 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!
WHICH ACTORS OM STAR TREK ARE GAY?
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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.
“As var groups of gay and lbian science fictn fans, like the Gaylactic Network, start to ph that they wanna see more posive reprentatn, Star Trek seems like a really likely place bee had been so out ont terms of posive pictns of Ain Amerins, Asian Amerins, women learship rol, ” Margaret explas.
There are nflictg acunts on whether Star Trek creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be an out gay character Star Trek: The Next Generatn (1987-1994), but ultimately there isn’t. And while this episo was very clearly Star Trek’s foray to a “gay rights” episo, left many disappoted. In 1992, ed genr inty as an allegory for homosexualy, but watchg today, you n’t help but wish uld have treated the ia of beg non-bary not as an allegory but as an ia to explore rpectfully and of self.