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MICHAEL CHABON IS AAID HE DIDN’T MAKE ‘STAR TREK: PIRD’ OBVLY GAY ENOUGH. REALLY.
While the Star Trek anchise has long drawn members of the LGBTQ muny, and prompted speculatn that a number of characters throughout s long history f somewhere unr the LGBTQ umbrella themselv, the actual reprentatn has been slow very first openly gay Star Trek character didn’t e until 2017, when Star Trek: Disvery troduced married uple Pl Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Hugh Culber (Wilson Cz) now, Star Trek: Pird has given fans a new gift, seemgly revealg that a classic character has been queer all Ryan’s Seven of Ne was first troduced back Star Trek: Voyager, and while that seri didn’t explicly portray her character as queer, Pird has been htg at as much throughout the first season. ”But this isn’t a non-nonil, after-the-fact reveal a la “Dumbledore was gay all along. Jeri Ryan's reformed B drone was troduced to Star Trek: Voyager wh a lot of fan hope and speculatn that she would be gay, but that never panned out.
The first openly gay seri regulars weren’t troduced to the Trek universe until 2017 (y, you read that rrectly) the form of Star Trek: Disvery’s Pl Stamets and Hugh Culbert. In fact, back when the character was first troduced on Voyager, there was a not signifint amount of fan speculatn that Seven would turn out to be gay, but for var reasons that velopment never panned out.
In particular, though we fally have a gay uple on Disvery, there is this long and cur history of queer erasure on Star Trek. Basilly you were straight, gay or bi, and there was all this argument about whether there was even such a thg as beg bi.