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STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
Although this time perd was jt before the wir media reprentatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or queer characters, TNG clud an episo s 5th season that addrsed LGBTQ+ issu head-on.
“My attu toward homosexualy has changed, ” he told The Humanist 1991. I have, over many years, changed my attu about gay men and women.
Even after his ath, took another 28 years for the first gay character to appear Star Trek’s televisn seri (although y, novel tie-s, ics, fan works, and other non-nonil media featured a markedly improved number of LGBT Starfleet officers).