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• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• STAR WARS: 'LE AND HAN SOLO WERE GAY AND A UPLE ALL ALONG' SAYS SCREENWRER
• STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
• TK-421 STORMTROOPER HAD SECRET GAY ROMANCE A NEW HOPE
• STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ONSCREEN COUPLESTAR WARS RISTANCE, WHICH AIRS ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL, FEATUR TWO CHARACTERS NAMED ORKA AND FLIX. BOBBY MOYNIHAN, WHO VOIC ORKA, PUT LIKE THIS: “ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’.... THEY’RE THE CUTT.”BY LRA BRADLEYOCTOBER 1, 2019COURTY OF DISNEY CHANNEL.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT LONG LAST, THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE FEATUR AN OPENLY GAY UPLE—AND APPARENTLY THEY’VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE. FANS OF THE ANIMATED SERI STAR WARS RISTANCE HAVE SPECTED THAT TWO CHARACTERS, ORKA (VOICED BY BOBBY MOYNIHAN) AND FLIX (JIM RASH), ARE A PAIR EVER SCE A SEASON-ONE EPISO, “DANGERO BS,” WHICH AIRED JANUARY AND FEATUR THE TWO VISG FLIX’S MOTHER. AND NOW, THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS HAVE NFIRMED THE ROMANCE ON THE PODST COFFEE WH KENOBI.EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JT RIDGE TOLD THE PODST, “I THK ’S SAFE TO SAY THEY’RE AN EM, ABSOLUTELY,” RIDGE TELLS PRS. “THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE, AND WE’RE PROUD OF THAT. WE LOVE FLIX AND ORKA.” MOYNIHAN ALSO CHIMED : “I HAVE HAD A SENTENCE PREPARED FOR A YEAR AND A HALF,” HE SAID. “IF SOMEONE WOULD FALLY ASK ME, I WOULD SAY, ‘ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’…. THEY’RE THE CUTT.”THE NEWS IS EXCG FOR FANS, BUT ALSO BTERSWEET: STAR WARS RISTANCE WILL END AFTER S SEND SEASON, WHICH BUTS ON OCTOBER 6. BUT AS MOR AS THE PROGRS IS A ANCHISE AS LONG AND EXPANSIVE AS STAR WARS, IS AT LEAST PROGRS. IT’S STRIKG THAT DISNEY WOULD RPORATE A GAY UPLE TO ANY OF S PROJECTS, BUT FEELS PECIALLY RONANT THAT ’S HAPPENG ON A CHILDREN’S SHOW. THEN AGA, ANIMATED SERI HAVE GIVEN SOME OF TV’S MOST NEEDLE-PHG MOMENTS SO FAR WHEN TO QUEER REPRENTATN YOUTH MEDIA—SO REALLY, STAR WARS IS SIMPLY JOG A GROWG TRADN.AS DEADLE NOT, THIS STAR WARS NEWS IS ALSO JT THE LATT EXAMPLE OF DISNEY SHORG UP S LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN. AS ANNOUNCED THIS PAST SUMMER, THE UPG THOR: LOVE AND THUNR WILL FD TSA THOMPSON’S VALKYRIE SEARCHG FOR “HER QUEEN”—AND THAT A CHARACTER OM THE UPG MARVEL FILM ETERNALS WILL ALSO BE GAY. SO SEEMS WE’VE MA SOME PROGRS SCE THAT “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST—BUT PECIALLY WH RISTANCE G TO AN END SOON, THERE’S ALWAYS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR MORE.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— APPLE LEARNS OM ONE OF NETFLIX’S BIGGT MISTAK— WHAT THE REAL-LIFE SPIRATN FOR HTLERS THKS OF J. LO’S PERFORMANCE— REMEMBERG SHAWSHANK REMPTN, 25 YEARS AFTER S BUT— A SPRKLE OF MEGHAN MAGIC CAPE TOWN— IMPEACHMENT FERVOR IS G A CK AT FOX NEWS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE DRAMA BEHD REBEL WHOUT A CSE AND A YOUNG STAR’S ATHLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDLRA BRADLEY
• WHY SOME 'STAR WARS' FANS THK THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE GAY

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

There is a lot of homoerotic subtext between the two of them, and a romantic relatnship between them wouldn't have changed hardly anythg their story or the story overall. Dean and Castiel om "Supernatural" served romance rather than the "bury your gays" trope. "But Dean never really gets a chance to rpond and is never openly stated that he and Castiel were a scene also leans very heavily to the "bury your gays" trope, where, TV seri or movi, LGBTQ+ characters are killed off more equently than straight was not the only LGBTQ+ reprentatn the seri, but Dtiel fans fely served better than a last-mute nfsn before removg any chance of Castiel and Dean beg an open, romantic uple.

Poe Dameron (Osr Isaac) and Fn (John Boyega) is another popular gay ship that the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy should have mted to. "The seri' ma gay character, Cynthia Rose (Esther Dean), was also treated as a joke the first movie — which Rebel Wilson's Fat Amy has an ongog gag of "outg" her before she nfs at the end of the movie — and is later siled the sequels.

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.

STAR WARS: 'LE AND HAN SOLO WERE GAY AND A UPLE ALL ALONG' SAYS SCREENWRER

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

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.

TK-421 STORMTROOPER HAD SECRET GAY ROMANCE A NEW HOPE

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. [iame allowfullscreen="" class=^{{"giphy-embed"}}^ ameborr="0" height="202" width="480"]When the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) published their 2016 "Stud Rponsibily Inx"—Star Wars' parent stud, Disney, didn't fare so well. Boba Fett has gay, the most feared bounty hunter the galaxy kicks wh the gays.

STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ONSCREEN COUPLESTAR WARS RISTANCE, WHICH AIRS ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL, FEATUR TWO CHARACTERS NAMED ORKA AND FLIX. BOBBY MOYNIHAN, WHO VOIC ORKA, PUT LIKE THIS: “ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’.... THEY’RE THE CUTT.”BY LRA BRADLEYOCTOBER 1, 2019COURTY OF DISNEY CHANNEL.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT LONG LAST, THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE FEATUR AN OPENLY GAY UPLE—AND APPARENTLY THEY’VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE. FANS OF THE ANIMATED SERI STAR WARS RISTANCE HAVE SPECTED THAT TWO CHARACTERS, ORKA (VOICED BY BOBBY MOYNIHAN) AND FLIX (JIM RASH), ARE A PAIR EVER SCE A SEASON-ONE EPISO, “DANGERO BS,” WHICH AIRED JANUARY AND FEATUR THE TWO VISG FLIX’S MOTHER. AND NOW, THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS HAVE NFIRMED THE ROMANCE ON THE PODST COFFEE WH KENOBI.EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JT RIDGE TOLD THE PODST, “I THK ’S SAFE TO SAY THEY’RE AN EM, ABSOLUTELY,” RIDGE TELLS PRS. “THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE, AND WE’RE PROUD OF THAT. WE LOVE FLIX AND ORKA.” MOYNIHAN ALSO CHIMED : “I HAVE HAD A SENTENCE PREPARED FOR A YEAR AND A HALF,” HE SAID. “IF SOMEONE WOULD FALLY ASK ME, I WOULD SAY, ‘ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’…. THEY’RE THE CUTT.”THE NEWS IS EXCG FOR FANS, BUT ALSO BTERSWEET: STAR WARS RISTANCE WILL END AFTER S SEND SEASON, WHICH BUTS ON OCTOBER 6. BUT AS MOR AS THE PROGRS IS A ANCHISE AS LONG AND EXPANSIVE AS STAR WARS, IS AT LEAST PROGRS. IT’S STRIKG THAT DISNEY WOULD RPORATE A GAY UPLE TO ANY OF S PROJECTS, BUT FEELS PECIALLY RONANT THAT ’S HAPPENG ON A CHILDREN’S SHOW. THEN AGA, ANIMATED SERI HAVE GIVEN SOME OF TV’S MOST NEEDLE-PHG MOMENTS SO FAR WHEN TO QUEER REPRENTATN YOUTH MEDIA—SO REALLY, STAR WARS IS SIMPLY JOG A GROWG TRADN.AS DEADLE NOT, THIS STAR WARS NEWS IS ALSO JT THE LATT EXAMPLE OF DISNEY SHORG UP S LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN. AS ANNOUNCED THIS PAST SUMMER, THE UPG THOR: LOVE AND THUNR WILL FD TSA THOMPSON’S VALKYRIE SEARCHG FOR “HER QUEEN”—AND THAT A CHARACTER OM THE UPG MARVEL FILM ETERNALS WILL ALSO BE GAY. SO SEEMS WE’VE MA SOME PROGRS SCE THAT “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST—BUT PECIALLY WH RISTANCE G TO AN END SOON, THERE’S ALWAYS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR MORE.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— APPLE LEARNS OM ONE OF NETFLIX’S BIGGT MISTAK— WHAT THE REAL-LIFE SPIRATN FOR HTLERS THKS OF J. LO’S PERFORMANCE— REMEMBERG SHAWSHANK REMPTN, 25 YEARS AFTER S BUT— A SPRKLE OF MEGHAN MAGIC CAPE TOWN— IMPEACHMENT FERVOR IS G A CK AT FOX NEWS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE DRAMA BEHD REBEL WHOUT A CSE AND A YOUNG STAR’S ATHLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDLRA BRADLEY

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

WHY SOME 'STAR WARS' FANS THK THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE GAY

When I talk about clivy ’s not excludg gay characters.