Dpe beg known as a lear terms of genr and racial tegratn, wasn't until 2017 that the first openly gay characters were troduced a Star Trek televisn show. We talk to curator Margaret Weekamp about Star Trek's history wh LGBTQ+ stori and characters.
Contents:
- STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER
- 6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!
- BRYAN FULLER PRAIS HOW ‘STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE’ PAVED A GAY WAY FOR ‘DISVERY’
- STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
- 'STAR TREK: DISVERY' STARS OPEN UP ABOUT GROUNDBREAKG GAY ROMANCE
STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER
For the first time s 51-year history, the seri will feature a gay romance on the new CBS reboot. * star trek discovery gay actors *
Star Trek has cid to boldly go where no man has gone before--well, actually where Star Trek has never gone before: Homosexualy. Related | Star Trek: Disvery Casts Anthony Rapp as a Gay LeadIn the new show, created by Bryan Fuller, the actn is set a before the origal Star Trek seri and looks to be the most diverse eratn of the show yet.
At Comic Con, was announced that Wilson Cz and Anthony Rapp will play two lovers onboard the ship, which mak this the first time openly gay characters have appeared on the show--rather than retroactively unveilg a character to be gay like J. Together, they play the science fictn anchise’s first regularly appearg gay uple aboard the U.
6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!
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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?
"I never unrstood the worry that people have for me when they're like, 'Well, aren't you aaid that you'll jt play gay rol for the rt of your life?
So why n't I be exced about always playg gay rol? " "The stak are jt too high for me, not jt for me personally, but for all of our society, our world, " Rapp said of his choice on playg gay rol. It was more that when I read , I was spired to be brave enough to fally e out, and tell people that I was gay, and tst that my future would be a betiful thg if I was livg openly and eely.
BRYAN FULLER PRAIS HOW ‘STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE’ PAVED A GAY WAY FOR ‘DISVERY’
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Disvery, which premiered September of 2017, is notable for beg the first Star Trek seri to feature openly and explicly gay ma characters played by LGBTQ+ actors, like Pl Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp), Dr. One of the new characters will be the s-old anchise’s first to be origally nceived and announced as gay.
Stamets is the new gay character; prevly, Trek in Lt. Sulu was revealed to be gay this year’s movie Star Trek Beyond.
”) Addg at least one gay character was important to the show’s executive producer Bryan Fuller, who told reporters Augt, “Absolutely we’re havg a gay character. ” Fuller, who is gay, noted that while workg on Star Trek: Voyager, he received a file’s worth full of hate mail after there was a mor that a character on the show might e out. Fuller said he was termed that if he ever did his own Star Trek show, there would be a character who is gay.
STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
6 Star Trek Actors You Didn’t Know Were Gay In Real Life!
But what if you get to know that some of the actors who you thought straight are actually gay?! The stg of out gay actors Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz paved the way for l Barr and Alexanr.
'STAR TREK: DISVERY' STARS OPEN UP ABOUT GROUNDBREAKG GAY ROMANCE
The veterans have been seri regulars sce the first episo, playg a gay uple aboard the U. The first openly gay characters the Star Trek televisn universe weren’t troduced until the first season of Star Trek: Disvery 2017. (Although is worth notg that the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond is tablished that the Hika Sulu of the Kelv Timele, portrayed by John Cho, is gay — a nod to Gee Takei, who origated the role of Sulu Star Trek: The Origal Seri and publicly me out as gay 2005.
Hugh Culber, portrayed by out actors Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz, are the first openly gay characters and the first gay uple portrayed the central st of a Star Trek tv show. There is one disappotg moment where seems that Disvery is playg to the “bury your gays” trope wh the (spoiler alert! The team behd the show sist that his short-lived ath isn’t a “bury your gays” moment, wh executive producer Aaron Harberts sayg an terview wh IndieWire: “It was sential that this crime not be gratuo.
He’s not killed bee he’s gay. In the mid- to late-1980s, a group of science fictn fans formed a group lled the Gaylactic Network wh the tly credible slogan, “Out of the closet and to the universe. “As var groups of gay and lbian science fictn fans, like the Gaylactic Network, start to ph that they wanna see more posive reprentatn, Star Trek seems like a really likely place bee had been so out ont terms of posive pictns of Ain Amerins, Asian Amerins, women learship rol, ” Margaret explas.