Star Trek’s First Gay Couple That Wasn’t - The Stranger

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• STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
• STAR TREK’S WIL WHEATON LOV THAT GAY BOYS CSHED ON WLEY CSHER
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• FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS

STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

Together, they play the science fictn anchise’s first regularly appearg gay uple aboard the U. And of urse, they'll be fans who say, ‘”Oh, they’re killg off the gays aga! Ennis: As a pneer Star Trek, terms of beg an out gay man, playg a gay character, a relatnship wh another man, do you see that the unfoldg of havg non-bary characters like Adira and a trans character, even a ghostly versn, how do that make you feel terms of the craft and and our muny?

STAR TREK’S WIL WHEATON LOV THAT GAY BOYS CSHED ON WLEY CSHER

Leonard Nemoy himself gave support 1991, sayg, "It is entirely ftg that gays and lbians will appear unobtsively aboard the Enterprise—neher objects of py nor melodramatic attentn. “My attu toward homosexualy has changed, ” he told The Humanist 1991.

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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).

FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS

Given that the first openly gay recurrg character on televisn wouldn’t appear until the edy Soap 1977 (and played by Billy Crystal, so not exactly a nuanced character portrayal), pictg one the ‘60s when Star Trek first aired would have been unthkable to most people. Of urse, much of what Star Trek did to highlight actors and characters of different ethnic backgrounds would have been pretty far-fetched for many televisn dienc of the time, too – so what ma gay stori different at the time? But still others were spired – enough that Kirk and Spock’s endurg nnectn to one another has remaed a potent symbol of homosexual love for Trek fans.

Durg a 20th anniversary nventn 1986, show creator Gene Rodnberry was asked by a foundg member of a Boston LGBT science fictn group (lled, charmgly, the Gaylaxian Network) whether or not the recently announced The Next Generatn would troduce gay characters to Starfleet. We should probably have a gay character.