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Contents:

• STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
• IN A GAY GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: 9 ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS WHO WE’VE DECID ARE QUEER
• ‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• FOM:KB:GAY JEDI

STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT

Abrams recently said that “of urse” gay characters would soon be seen  the “Star Wars” galaxy. And Mark Hal said that Le Skywalker uld be gay.

Juhani (right), a lbian thar alien, was featured the vio game “Knights of the Old Republic” 2004, and was the first nfirmed and openly gay character Star Wars. Lord Cytharat is a gay Sh troduced “Star Wars: The Old Republic” 2013, and was the first character the long-nng onle game who uld share a kiss wh a player character of the same is a bisexual woman troduced “Star Wars: The Old Republic” 2013.

This year Star Wars has said would celebrate Pri month by lettg gay and trans artists “pay homage to some of the LGBT+ characters habg a galaxy far, far away” a special le of ic book vers.

IN A GAY GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: 9 ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS WHO WE’VE DECID ARE QUEER

Sjir Rath Vel is the first major hero a Star Wars story to be gay. Author Chuck Wendig troduced the first gay ma character to the Star Wars universe the Imperial turnat Sjir Rath Vel. Sjir Rath Vel, troduced Star Wars: Aftermath, was the first gay protagonist a Star Wars story.

The novel also troduced two background characters who are gay. Crisp’s young Han Solo trilogy, kept a mistrs to imprs his Imperial lleagu and to hi the fact that he was not terted women, leadg to fandom speculatn that the character was meant to be terpreted as gay. But even if Juhani’s relatnship wh a female Revan was nsired non-non, her sexualy remaed unchanged: part of Juhani’s arc the first game impli that she prevly had a relatnship wh a childhood iend and fellow Jedi iate, Belaya, and briefly fell to the Dark Si part due to her ep feelgs for Belaya gog agast the Jedi Co of would take a few more years for Star Wars to receive s first gay character, but wh would e another important step the anchise’s history: the first queer married uple.

Although Bevi and Vasur were Star Wars’ first gay uple, none of their appearanc the novels explicly noted that they were married.

‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

In 2009—years before TOR would release 2011—fom muny manager Sean Dahlberg was forced to apologize after fendg the choice for the game’s fan foms to filter “gay” and “lbian” as banned terms by argug that they are terms “that do not exist Star Wars.

But many felt Makeb was beg treated as “the gay pla, ” and that players terted queer romanc and characters were not beg given equable all s false starts, TOR would eventually improve.

FOM:KB:GAY JEDI

Most notably, the trilogy add the “first non” gay characters, the form of ex-Imperial Sjir Rath Vel— who fected om the Empire after the battle of Endor and beme a major pot-of-view character the first book the seri—and his boyiend, a New Republic Slicer named Conr wasn’t jt the new, post-Return of the Jedi timele that the Disney age brought LGBTQ reprentatn to. Sjir Rath Vel om the Aftermath trilogy is gay. Aleks and Pavol are a gay uple of mercenari om the Lando ics.

(Delian’s tag)Legends (Old Expand Universe- not part of Disney non)Goran Bevi and Medr Vasur-Bevi are a gay uple om the Legacy of the Force seri. They were the first nfirmed gay uple Star Wars lerature. (Goran’s tag) (Medr’s tag)Fes Ol and Roan Lands om the Jedi Qut and Last of the Jedi chapter books were recently nfirmed by the thor of those seri to be gay, and married.

Lord Cytharat is gay, and Lana Beniko, Lemada Avta, Theron Shan and Koth Vortena n be “romanced” by male and female characters. Books and ics have featured proment gay characters for several years now.