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Contents:

• STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
• ‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS
• STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
• ‘STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER’ GAY MOMENT DON’T FAZE CHE AUDIENC, CENSORS

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

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.

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.

‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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. 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. 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.

'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY

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. 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.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED

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.

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He's even married to fellow Mandalorian warrr, Medr Vasur, makg them the first openly gay uple Star Wars history.

‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS

In 2013, Sansweet was ved to participate a vio for the Gay Fay Valu blog, which featured the mega-Star Wars fan and his hband of more than 37 years, Bob. There are now officially gay characters the new Star Wars April 2014, Lusfilm announced they were relegatg all the existg "Expand Universe" material to "Legends" stat, makg way for a pletely tegrated and nonil Star Wars ntent landspe. While this new non is still evolvg, we've already been troduced to a bunch of officially lbian and gay characters—which is awome!

Abrams is nvced we'll see gay Star Wars characters the asked if he se room for gay characters a galaxy far, far away, The Force Awakens director J. When I talk about clivy ’s not excludg gay characters.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS

Abrams went on a whirlwd prs tour to tout the first gay kiss all of Star Wars.

Flix and Orka are a fully nonil gay uple. The game’s 2009 release mak Juhani one of the first openly gay characters (that didn’t get retnned) the Star Wars universe.

A regular human, Rath is the first openly gay character the seri. Earlier this year, Avengers: Endgame featured Marvel’s first openly gay character. “We’ve done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi.

STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.

Aga, the moment was highly touted by director Bill Condon, who lled an “exclively gay moment a Disney movie.

It seemed the Star Wars universe might troduce s first gay characters 2016’s Rogue One wh Chirt (Donnie Yen) and Baze (Jiang Wen); however, their relatnship was kept platonic. Marvel’s The Eternals is said to have a gay character and Thor: Ragnarok‘s Tsa Thompson has said she pched and played her character as bisexual, as she is the ics; however, none of her appearanc Marvel films th far have portrayed her this way.

The first nonilly gay character was troduced the 2015 novel Lords of the Sh. Abrams has been htg sce The Force Awakens that Star Wars would eventually have gay characters, and fally happened. "So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn't be a homosexual character that world.

‘STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER’ GAY MOMENT DON’T FAZE CHE AUDIENC, CENSORS

I am exced to see what the anchise do next to reprent more gay characters a galaxy far, far away.

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