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Contents:

• ‘ANDOR’ FANS ARE GIDDY FOR THE NEW ‘STAR WARS’ GAY UPLE
• STAR WARS: EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'S CANON GAY COUPLE
• STAR WARS RISTANCE NFIRMS ORKA AND FLIX AS OPENLY GAY UPLE
• ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
• STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
• STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE
• STAR WARS NOW OFFICIALLY HAS S FIRST EVER OPENLY GAY UPLE AND WE’RE SO PROUD

‘ANDOR’ FANS ARE GIDDY FOR THE NEW ‘STAR WARS’ GAY UPLE

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. Back the 2000s, was bluntly stated that gay people “did not exist Star Wars“.

But this week’s episo of Andor — ‘The Axe Fets’ — sually reveals Star Wars‘ newt gay uple: Faye Marsay’s Vel and Varada Sethu’s Cta. Fans are over the tw moons about : Some mand a smooch before we properly celebrate: #andorOk, all the gays seem aaid to accept the cu about Vel and Cta so at least I’m not alone ?Be more clear, Star Wars. — Spoopy Angel |?️‍? ४ ☽ ?‍☠️ (@angel_ponrs) October 5, 2022 Andor knows where stands: ANDOR SAID GAY RIGHTS I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS— Noah (@keldorjedii) October 5, 2022 Y, we all picked up on that: #andor // spoilers (maybe?

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STAR WARS: EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'S CANON GAY COUPLE

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.

STAR WARS RISTANCE NFIRMS ORKA AND FLIX AS OPENLY GAY UPLE

Some of the buzz precedg The Rise of Skywalker me om the news that ntaed Star Wars' first on-screen gay kiss.

Neverthels, was genuely excg that Star Wars was fally gog to clu gay ntent. It felt very much like other attempts to clu queer ntent morn media owned by Disney, thgs like LeFou Bety and the Beast beg the first of Disney's "first on-screen gay characters, " or Avengers: Endgame sayg clud the Marvel Cematic Universe's first on-screen gay character, only for that character to be a random man a support group who happened to be played by Joe Rso, one of the directors, rather than an Avenger or one of their alli.

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‘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.

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

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.

“They’re absolutely a gay uple and we’re proud of that. This mak Orka and Flix the first openly gay uple to be portrayed on screen the Star Wars universe. “They’re absolutely a gay uple, and we’re proud of that, ” executive producer Jt Ridge said of the show’s Flix and Orka characters, whom fans had long spected to be lovers.

Flix and Orka are the first nfirmed gay uple to ever appear on-screen the “Star Wars” universe sce first h theaters 1977, although there have been fan-fueled mors about other potentially queer characters. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker se two gay characters share a kiss, markg a tone anchise history.

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

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ma anchise history by featurg two gay characters kiss on screen. Disney actually removed the kiss om The Rise of Skywalker natns wh strict laws surroundg homosexual relatnships. In Sgapore, male homosexual acts are technilly illegal.

Female homosexual acts are legal, but the The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss was removed anyway, so that the film uld mata s PG-13 ratg. Dubai cut the kiss too, as all homosexual relatnships are agast the law  Uned Arab Emirat.

On the other end of the spectm, The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss also me unr cricism for not gog far enough. But sce dienc had no attachment to the characters, there was no emotnal payoff to this quick reprentatn for gay characters. Marvel touted their first-ever gay character leadg up to Avengers: Endgame.

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

That reprentatn only end up beg -director Joe Rso meog as a gay man who discs an upg date. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss was a baby step the right directn, but not enough to be nsired legimate LGBTQ reprentatn.

More: Onward’s Gay Character Prov Disney’s Reprentatn Problem. 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. 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.

STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE

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.

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

STAR WARS NOW OFFICIALLY HAS S FIRST EVER OPENLY GAY UPLE AND WE’RE SO PROUD

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. Star Wars didn’t get a nfirmed gay uple until the 2006 novel Bloodl, and even after that reprentatn was sorely lackg (the character Juhani om 2003’s Knight of the Old Republic is *technilly* the first LGBTQ+ character Star Wars, as you uld romance her while playg as a female Revan, however, this pairg is non-nonil as Revan is nonilly male and had a relatnship wh Bastila Shan).