Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’s Gay Characters Explaed

Contents:

• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• WHY SOME 'STAR WARS' FANS THK THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE GAY
• STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
• 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
• DISNEY TRILOGY FANS CLAIM LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA CONFIRMS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN FN AND POE
• STAR WARS WILL HAVE GAYS SAYS JJ ABRAMS & JOHN BOYEGA CONFIRMS FN AND POE GAY MOURS
• ARE STAR WARS' FN AND POE A GAY COUPLE? HERE'S WHAT JOHN BOYEGA SAYS
• J.J. ABRAMS SAYS THERE WILL BE GAY CHARACTERS IN "STAR WARS"
• OSR ISAAC WISH POE AND FN WERE GAY ‘STAR WARS’ BUT ‘PEOPLE ARE TOO AAID’

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

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker se two gay characters share a kiss, markg a tone anchise history. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

And, perhaps most tertgly: Are Poe and Fn gay? 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. 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. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker may not have Baby Yoda, but do feature the first-ever gay kiss the 40-pl year history of the anchise.

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

"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" will feature the anchise's first gay kiss.

Some fans of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga have claimed that a scene the game has nfirmed a gay romance between Fn and Poe. Abrams nclud that as he strived to st Star Wars wh people who “looked more the way the world looks than not, ” that also applied to gay characters.

When prsed for if Rise of Skywalker would have a gay character, Abrams rpond while sg “I will say I’m givg away nothg about what happens the movie. Prr to Rise of Skywalker’s release, Issac put the blame at the lack of gay reprentatn at the feet of his own boss. While that may have been te of Disney boss of 2019, seems Disney are now extremely eager to show more gay characters, pecially li of their polil battle Florida.

DISNEY TRILOGY FANS CLAIM LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA CONFIRMS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN FN AND POE

As seen a prevly leaked pany email, CEO Bob Chapek had origally stated that Disney would not be openly opposg the Florida Parental Rights Edutn bill (falsely dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill) as spe beg a “force for cln, ” he did not want the pany to bee “a polil football. Subsidiari such as Marvel followed soon after, and Disney has sce gone on to clare their tent to have the law repealed or stck down and ph a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda. 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.

HOME News Royal Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Fance Travel Entertament Life & Style Films Gamg Mic Books Theatre Exprs Ws STAR WARS will have gay characters the new films, says director JJ Abrams, fuellg the mours of a gay romance between John Boyega's Fn and Osr Isaac's Poe Star Wars Episo VIII. 03:28, Sun, Feb 28, 2016 | UPDATED: 17:57, Tue, Oct 10, 2017 TWITTER/GETTYOsr Issacs and John Boyega fan the romance moursUPDATE: JJ Abrams has spoken out for the first time to addrs the growg fan mours and petns for gay characters the Star Wars universe.

"So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world. ”“When I talk about clivy ’s not excludg gay characters, " he add.

STAR WARS WILL HAVE GAYS SAYS JJ ABRAMS & JOHN BOYEGA CONFIRMS FN AND POE GAY MOURS

The Force Awakens smashed blockbter and big screen nventn by boldly placg a woman and a black man ont and centre of a major a major gay lead character a step too far? Received wisdom Hollywood has long believed that women n not rry a edi like Brismaids and Jennifer Lawrence's triumphant Hunger Gam anchise have fally put that to 'I was playg romance" Osr Isaacs (far left) told Ellen The sight of a black actor rryg a blockbter anchise uld also have been seen as a risk, and yet Boyega is ridg high at the heart of the new Star Wars Force Awakens has smashed every box office rerd sce s release which impli that nothg n rail the succs of the new don't look for a major gay revelatn any time markets like Rsia, Asia and, ccially, Cha are far ls acceptg of anythg that supports or promot OUR LIVE REVIEW OF THE FORCE AWAKENS NEXT:Star Wars - The Force Awakens Exprs ReviewCha is already the fastt-growg film market the world and is on urse to bee the a small number of foreign films are approved for release each year Cha, so Hollywood fac a potential loss of hundreds of lns of dollars if a film won’t be screened there.

ARE STAR WARS' FN AND POE A GAY COUPLE? HERE'S WHAT JOHN BOYEGA SAYS

Posive pictns of gay relatnships are generally censored by the Che film board and Disney have vted a whoppg $4billn the Star Wars kd of risk wh such a sensive market seems highly now, seems that fans will have to ntent themselv wh imagg their own versns of a more tolerant and clive galaxy far, far for Isaac, he ntued to tease about his potential love terts the he was phed to clarify exactly who he would be romancg the films he wined the field out to non-humans. "While seems like Fn and Poe's potential relatnship is sted to rema, as Boyega once allegedly told a reporter, " Osr's head, " The Rise of Skywalker did feature the Star Wars anchise's first on-screen gay kiss (albe one that has been met wh cricism for beg "panrg, " featurg characters of "relative signifince" the anchise, and beg brief and cintal enough to the plot that, "should any of the film’s ternatnal markets balk, n easily be removed"). So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world.

And yet, Isaac shar his wish that Lusfilm phed forward and ma Fn and Poe a gay uple.

J.J. ABRAMS SAYS THERE WILL BE GAY CHARACTERS IN "STAR WARS"

OSR ISAAC WISH POE AND FN WERE GAY ‘STAR WARS’ BUT ‘PEOPLE ARE TOO AAID’