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Contents:
- IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY
- 'OF COURSE' LE SKYWALKER IS GAY, CONFIRMS MARK HAL, ECHOG THOANDS OF FAN-FICTN PRAYERS
- LU MAY NOT BE A GAY NARRATIVE, BUT ’S ABSOLUTELY A QUEER ONE
- ‘BROS’ STAR LE MACFARLANE TALKS MASCULY AND GAY INTY
IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY
"If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is." * luke is gay *
Abrams, director of the seventh and most diverse Star Wars film the seri, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has said as much, and wants gay characters troduced future stallments of the seri.
'OF COURSE' LE SKYWALKER IS GAY, CONFIRMS MARK HAL, ECHOG THOANDS OF FAN-FICTN PRAYERS
Pixar director Enri Casarosa drew heavily om faiar g-out stori and other "gay narrative" trop for his animated movie Lu. (It’s all there, om nversn therapy to passg privilege.) But he’s still nyg any gay ntent, shuttg down queer viewers who see themselv the film. The bate mirrors other s, om Star Wars’ Le Skywalker to Anthony Mackie’s ments on The Faln and the Wter Soldier, where LBGTQ+ viewers terpret stori through their own lens, and the creators try to ny them. Here’s why eedom of terpretatn matters. * luke is gay *
However, a newly troduced gay character Star Wars might not necsarily be the first.
LU MAY NOT BE A GAY NARRATIVE, BUT ’S ABSOLUTELY A QUEER ONE
"They say to me, 'Could Le be gay? If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is.
"Is Le Skywalker Gay?
"A gay character the biggt anchise the universe, one lked to so many childhoods and formative to what kids thk of as right and wrong, wouldn't que be the same as blowg up a Death Star, but would be close, " Eli Keel wrote for Salon. Moreover, wh Abrams' on-the-rerd ph, a gay character the Star Wars universe seems a matter of when, not if. "So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn't be a homosexual character that world.
‘BROS’ STAR LE MACFARLANE TALKS MASCULY AND GAY INTY
The fact that Star Wars' latt director and one of s actors want gay reprentatn is important — and should be seen not as the last step, but an important first one. There are a handful of absolute laws nature: matter n be neher created nor stroyed; every actn has an equal and oppose reactn; and any TV or movie character has, at some pot, been serted to suatns of roilg homoerotic tensn by posers of fan-fictn. gay?
thk Le is gay, of urse he is. For all we know, the impendg eighth stallment uld fally answer the qutn of what gay clubs are like... The rebels gay.
The recent ntroversy over whether or not Le Skywalker is gay is not even the begng of . Mark Hal, who played Le, suggted an terview at the time that Le uld be gay. Vany Fair reported that Hal said "of urse" Le is gay.