Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’s Gay Characters Explaed

Contents:

• 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
• 35 BT GAY ONLYFANS ACUNTS FEATURG HOT DUS 2022
• GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
• DISNEY'S FIRST GAY KISS AIRS ON STAR VS. THE FORC OF EVIL
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• GAY KISS
• 15 BT GAY AND LGBTQ PORNSTARS 2023
• ‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• ARE WE REALLY GOG TO PRETEND THAT GAY KISS THE RISE OF SKYWALKER MATTERS?STAR WARS DIRECTOR J.J. ABRAMS TALKED A GOOD GAME ABOUT REPRENTATN—AND THEN GAVE TWO SENDS OF LIP SERVICE BETWEEN MOR CHARACTERS. THAT'S PANRG, NOT PROGRS.BY K. AT COLLSDECEMBER 20, 2019BY JONATHAN OLLEY/LUSFILM LTD./DISNEY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEANOTHER H MOVIE, ANOTHER CMB OF GAY PANRG, ANOTHER ROUND OF THE UAL PLATS.THE FIRST THG I DID AFTER SEEG J.J. ABRAMS’S STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER—THE NTH FILM THE STORIED STAR WARS SAGA, AND A SURE-FIRE BOX OFFICE H, PER MICKEY MOE’S GRAND SIGN—WAS GOOGLE “STAR WARS GAY KISS.” NOT BEE I NEED TO VERIFY THAT THE MOMENT QUTN REALLY HAPPENED—I’D SEEN FOR MYSELF: A BRIEF FLASH OF TWO WOMEN KISSG LATE THE MOVIE, AMONG A CROWD OF CHARACTERS, HUMANOID AND NOT, ALL OF THEM HUGGG, KISSG, AND CHEERG AWAY. SO: NFIRMED.I WAS LOOKG, STEAD, FOR THE PROMISE. AS SOON AS THOSE WOMEN APPEARED ONSCREEN I KNEW, STCTIVELY, THAT AT SOME POT, SOMEONE ASSOCIATED WH SKYWALKER MT ALREADY HAVE HTED AT THE FILM’S “LGBT REPRENTATN” EARLY S PRS CYCLE. I KNEW THAT THE TWO-SEND PECK BETWEEN TWO WOMEN THAT I SAW—JT BARELY, I ALMOST BLKED AND MISSED —WAS A MOMENT THAT SOME PEOPLE MT HAVE GONE TO THE FILM EXPECTG TO SEE, BEE THE STUD AND/OR FILMMAKERS HAD ALREADY PATTED THEMSELV ON THE BACK FOR .WELL, THAT WAS EASY. EARLIER THIS MONTH VARIETY, ABRAMS DASHED STAR WARS FANS’ LONG-NNG HOP FOR A ROMANCE BETWEEN POE DAMERON (OSR ISAAC) AND FN (JOHN BOYEGA) BY NFIRMG THAT NO SUCH ROMANCE BLOSSOMS SKYWALKER—SORRY. “THAT RELATNSHIP TO ME IS A FAR EPER ONE THAN A ROMANTIC ONE,” SAID ABRAMS. “IT IS A EP BOND THAT THE TWO HAVE, NOT JT BEE OF THE TRIAL BY FIRE WHICH THEY MET, BUT ALSO BEE OF THEIR WILLGNS TO BE AS TIMATE AS THEY ARE, AS AAID AS THEY, AS UNSURE AS THEY ARE, AND STILL BE BOLD, AND STILL BE DARG AND BRAVE.” A LOT OF WORDS. BUT DON’T ET—HERE’S THE IMPORTANT B: “IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT PEOPLE WHO GO TO SEE THIS MOVIE FEEL THAT THEY’RE BEG REPRENTED THE FILM.”REPRENTED. IT’S A FAIAR WORD. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE RSO BROTHERS TOLD DEADLE THAT THEIR THEN UPG FILM, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, WOULD SIARLY FEATURE A GAY CHARACTER— “LGBT REPRENTATN,” OTHER WORDS. THE CHARACTER AMOUNTS TO A SGLE SCENE—REALLY, A LE—AND IS PLAYED BY DIRECTOR JOE RSO HIMSELF, WHICH ON S FACE MAK THE ENTIRE ENAVOR FEEL MORE LIKE A MATTER OF SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT THAN A REAL STAB AT BRGG A QUEER CHARACTER TO THE FOLD. THE RSOS GOT A HANDSOME B OF PRS OUT OF THE MATTER REGARDLS.“REPRENTATN IS REALLY IMPORTANT,” JOE RSO TOLD DEADLE, RECG THE LYRICS TO A SONG I’VE GROWN VERY WARY OF HEARG. “IT WAS IMPORTANT TO AS WE DID FOUR OF THE FILMS, WE WANTED A GAY CHARACTER SOMEWHERE THEM…IT IS A PERFECT TIME, BEE ONE OF THE THGS THAT IS PELLG ABOUT THE MARVEL UNIVERSE MOVG FORWARD IS S FOC ON DIVERSY.”THAT GAY CHARACTER WAS HERALD AS THE FIRST LGBT CHARACTER THE (ADMTEDLY SHORT) HISTORY OF THE MARVEL MOVI, JT AS THE BRIEF LBIAN KISS SKYWALKER WAS HERALD AS THE FIRST OF S KD FOR STAR WARS. THE BENCHMARKS FELY UNT AS “REPRENTATN.” BUT DO THEY—SHOULD THEY—UNT AS BENCHMARKS?MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINTHAT PENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT . IT IS UNNIABLE THAT ANCHISE FARE HAS TAKEN OVER THE WORLD OF MOVI, AND HARDLY ONLY THE U.S. AND YET THERE’S A WARPED UNRTONE TO THIS ENTIRE NVERSATN—ONE WHICH TWO SENDS OF TWO WOMEN KISSG IS, SOMEHOW, SIGNIFINT. SURE, ’S SIGNIFINT FOR STAR WARS—JT AS ENDGAME’S GAY RSO IS “SIGNIFINT” FOR S MOVIE, BEE THE THGS HAD NEVER HAPPENED THOSE NTEXTS BEFORE.BUT THE MOVI WERE RELEASED 2019—AND THAT, IF NO OTHER REASON, SUGGTS THAT WE NEED A NEW, BETTER NTEXT. ONE GAY KISS STAR WARS IS ONLY AN ADVANCEMENT THE WORLD OF STAR WARS. BUT LOOK HOW FAR LAGS BEHD THE RT OF THE VAST HISTORY OF QUEER REPRENTATN THE VISUAL ARTS, BROADLY SPEAKG, WORLDWI: OM MOVI GOG BACK AS FAR AS SILENT CEMA (CARL THEODOR DREYER’S MICHAEL, OM 1924) AND ENPASSG THE PASSNATE POLIL WORK MA AT THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS CRISIS, TO EVERY PHOTO YOU’VE EVER SEEN OF GAY SAILORS, TO THE RADIL QUEER FEMISM OF ARTISTS LIKE BARBARA HAMMER, TO—OF URSE—THE OVERWHELMG AMOUNT OF QUEER ART THE FANTASY GENRE, ALL OF IMPLICLY K TO STAR WARS.AND THAT’S MERELY IF WE’RE STARTG OM THE 20TH CENTURY—I ULD GO ON AND ON, FURTHER AND FURTHER BACK. FOR ALL S ABSENC AND IMPOSSIBILI, THE VISUAL HISTORY OF QUEER REPRENTATN REMAS VAST. TLY, I AM NOT SURE WE GIVE ENOUGH CRED. ALL OF THIS—THE WARPED STUD PRODUCTS DOWN TO THE MOST MCULE EPHEMERA—UNTS TOWARD THE HISTORY OF QUEER REPRENTATN. AND OUT OF ALL OF THIS, TWO SENDS OF TWO WOMEN KISSG A STAR WARS MOVIE IS SUPPOSED TO BE MEANGFUL? IT’S ASSUMED THAT BEE STAR WARS IS SO POPULAR, A MOMENT LIKE THIS MIGHT “CHANGE ATTUS.” BUT, FACT, THE CLNS REFLECT ATTUS: THEY REFLECT A DISNEY THAT’S FALLY WILLG TO LET TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX KISS--OR, THE ENDGAME SE, REFER TO EACH OTHER AS PARTNERS. AND THE SAME MOMENT, THEY REFLECT HOW FAR DISNEY IS, OR ISN’T, WILLG TO GO. ABOUT TWO SENDS, ONE MOVIE. A THROWAWAY LE THE OTHER.WHEN I HEAR ANCHISE FILMMAKERS CLAIM THAT THEIRS WILL BE THE FIRST FILM OF THEIR ANCHISE TO DO THIS OR THAT WH LGBT REPRENTATN, WHAT I HEAR IS HUBRIS, OR AT LEAST A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND NTEXT. I DON’T HEAR THOSE FILMMAKERS POTG OUT HOW LATE THEY ARE—HOW ULD THEY PAT THEMSELV ON THE BACK AND SELF-CRIQUE AT ONCE?—OR HOW LTLE THE FX-RADIL ACTS OF REPRENTATN MEAN THE SCHEME OF THGS, HOW LTLE THEY ACTUALLY DO TO ENLIVEN, REFLECT, OR EXPLORE THE LIV OF QUEER PEOPLE OR, JT AS URGENTLY, CHALLENGE THE NORMS THAT HAVE MA THIS REPRENTATN NECSARY.NO, THE FILMMAKERS ARE STEAD NTENT TO GET JT BEFORE THE FISH LE, WAG UNTIL THE VERY LAST MOVI THEIR RPECTIVE ANCHIS TO THROW THE DOGS A BONE. THE ONLY WAY TO TALK ABOUT THE BENCHMARKS IS DISMISSIVELY: TOO LTLE, TOO LATE. BUT WE’RE OF URSE SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE. NEVER MD THE CREDIBLE TROVE OF LGBT REPRENTATN YOU DO SEE , SAY, FAN FICTN; NEVER MD ALL THE WAYS FANS HAVE TAKEN THE MERE IA OF FN AND POE AS LOVERS AND DONE MORE WH , WH MORE CREATIVY AND SYMPATHY, THAN ANY DISNEY PROPERTY WILL LIKELY EVER DO. NEVER MD THE FACT THAT, ACRDGLY, LGBT REPRENTATN DISNEY’S ART DO EXIST—AMONG S FANS, NOT S CREATORS.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINTHE IA THAT THE LGHABLY MOR WS ARE SOMETHG TO CELEBRATE GO HAND HAND WH DISNEY’S BROAR ATTU TOWARD FILM HISTORY, WHICH THE PANY HAS LONG SEEMED TO THK IS SOMETHG BETTER OFF LOCKED UP A VLT SOMEWHERE—THE BETTER TO EXPLO THE ART’S VALUE, AFTER ALL. LET’S JT SAY STRAIGHT: THE PANY THAT WON’T EVEN LET BABY YODA MEM FLOURISH WHOUT LOSG S SH OVER PYRIGHT WILL NEVER BE A BEAN OF REPRENTATN OF ANY SORT, LET ALONE QUEER REPRENTATN, WHICH, AMONG OTHER THGS, HAS OFTEN MA SPORT OF APPROPRIATG AND MSY-G THE FIRM SEXUAL BOUNDARI OSTENSIBLY STRAIGHT, PYRIGHTED ART. DISNEY IS TOO NCERNED WH REPRENTATN AS PRODUCT TO BE A BEAN OF ANYTHG. AND THE FANS WHO RE WILL STILL, EVEN AS OF THE TWO MOVI, LARGELY BE LEFT TO THEIR OWN CREATIVE, IMAGATIVE VIC—AND THEY ARE PROBABLY BETTER OFF.I’D FEEL A B DIFFERENTLY IF NO ONE VOLVED HAD NGRATULATED THEMSELV OR TREATED THIS LANDMARK B OF CLN LIKE ANYTHG BUT THE SHAME IS. BEE, OBVLY, THE MOMENTS MATTER MOST TO THE QUEER PEOPLE WORLDWI WHO LOVE THE MOVI. THEY UNRSTANDABLY FEEL ACKNOWLEDGED—BY A SCENE THAT, SHOULD ANY OF THE FILM’S TERNATNAL MARKETS BALK, N EASILY BE REMOVED, IF NECSARY. THAT HAS A WAY OF MAKG LOOK LIKE A POTENTIAL LIABILY, RATHER THAN LIKE A PART OF THE FAY. IS THAT WHAT WE’RE CELEBRATG?WHEN DISNEY DO THE BARE MIMUM, ISN’T ACKNOWLEDGG YOU: ’S BUYG YOU. IT’S BUYG EVERYONE, EVERYTHG. AND AMONG THE MANY REASONS ’S WORTH STOMPG OUR FEET OVER DISNEY’S PH TO LE THE WORLD OF MOVI IS THIS: THIS IS THE REPRENTATN YOU GET WHEN DISNEY L THE WORLD. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET: TWO WOMEN, TWO SENDS. TLY, I’M OVERWHELMED. BUT NOT THE WAY DISNEY HOP, OR THKS, I SHOULD BE.K. AT COLLS
• FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
• SAM HGHAN SHUT DOWN GAY MORS PAST BY ADDRSG WILD CLAIMS ABOUT SEXUALY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

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AS SOON AS THOSE WOMEN APPEARED ONSCREEN I KNEW, STCTIVELY, THAT AT SOME POT, SOMEONE ASSOCIATED WH SKYWALKER MT ALREADY HAVE HTED AT THE FILM’S “LGBT REPRENTATN” EARLY S PRS CYCLE. I KNEW THAT THE TWO-SEND PECK BETWEEN TWO WOMEN THAT I SAW—JT BARELY, I ALMOST BLKED AND MISSED —WAS A MOMENT THAT SOME PEOPLE MT HAVE GONE TO THE FILM EXPECTG TO SEE, BEE THE STUD AND/OR FILMMAKERS HAD ALREADY PATTED THEMSELV ON THE BACK FOR .WELL, THAT WAS EASY. EARLIER THIS MONTH VARIETY, ABRAMS DASHED STAR WARS FANS’ LONG-NNG HOP FOR A ROMANCE BETWEEN POE DAMERON (OSR ISAAC) AND FN (JOHN BOYEGA) BY NFIRMG THAT NO SUCH ROMANCE BLOSSOMS SKYWALKER—SORRY. “THAT RELATNSHIP TO ME IS A FAR EPER ONE THAN A ROMANTIC ONE,” SAID ABRAMS. “IT IS A EP BOND THAT THE TWO HAVE, NOT JT BEE OF THE TRIAL BY FIRE WHICH THEY MET, BUT ALSO BEE OF THEIR WILLGNS TO BE AS TIMATE AS THEY ARE, AS AAID AS THEY, AS UNSURE AS THEY ARE, AND STILL BE BOLD, AND STILL BE DARG AND BRAVE.” A LOT OF WORDS. BUT DON’T ET—HERE’S THE IMPORTANT B: “IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT PEOPLE WHO GO TO SEE THIS MOVIE FEEL THAT THEY’RE BEG REPRENTED THE FILM.”REPRENTED. IT’S A FAIAR WORD. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE RSO BROTHERS TOLD DEADLE THAT THEIR THEN UPG FILM, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, WOULD SIARLY FEATURE A GAY CHARACTER— “LGBT REPRENTATN,” OTHER WORDS. THE CHARACTER AMOUNTS TO A SGLE SCENE—REALLY, A LE—AND IS PLAYED BY DIRECTOR JOE RSO HIMSELF, WHICH ON S FACE MAK THE ENTIRE ENAVOR FEEL MORE LIKE A MATTER OF SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT THAN A REAL STAB AT BRGG A QUEER CHARACTER TO THE FOLD. THE RSOS GOT A HANDSOME B OF PRS OUT OF THE MATTER REGARDLS.“REPRENTATN IS REALLY IMPORTANT,” JOE RSO TOLD DEADLE, RECG THE LYRICS TO A SONG I’VE GROWN VERY WARY OF HEARG. “IT WAS IMPORTANT TO AS WE DID FOUR OF THE FILMS, WE WANTED A GAY CHARACTER SOMEWHERE THEM…IT IS A PERFECT TIME, BEE ONE OF THE THGS THAT IS PELLG ABOUT THE MARVEL UNIVERSE MOVG FORWARD IS S FOC ON DIVERSY.”THAT GAY CHARACTER WAS HERALD AS THE FIRST LGBT CHARACTER THE (ADMTEDLY SHORT) HISTORY OF THE MARVEL MOVI, JT AS THE BRIEF LBIAN KISS SKYWALKER WAS HERALD AS THE FIRST OF S KD FOR STAR WARS. THE BENCHMARKS FELY UNT AS “REPRENTATN.” BUT DO THEY—SHOULD THEY—UNT AS BENCHMARKS?MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINTHAT PENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT . IT IS UNNIABLE THAT ANCHISE FARE HAS TAKEN OVER THE WORLD OF MOVI, AND HARDLY ONLY THE U.S. AND YET THERE’S A WARPED UNRTONE TO THIS ENTIRE NVERSATN—ONE WHICH TWO SENDS OF TWO WOMEN KISSG IS, SOMEHOW, SIGNIFINT. SURE, ’S SIGNIFINT FOR STAR WARS—JT AS ENDGAME’S GAY RSO IS “SIGNIFINT” FOR S MOVIE, BEE THE THGS HAD NEVER HAPPENED THOSE NTEXTS BEFORE.BUT THE MOVI WERE RELEASED 2019—AND THAT, IF NO OTHER REASON, SUGGTS THAT WE NEED A NEW, BETTER NTEXT. ONE GAY KISS STAR WARS IS ONLY AN ADVANCEMENT THE WORLD OF STAR WARS. BUT LOOK HOW FAR LAGS BEHD THE RT OF THE VAST HISTORY OF QUEER REPRENTATN THE VISUAL ARTS, BROADLY SPEAKG, WORLDWI: OM MOVI GOG BACK AS FAR AS SILENT CEMA (CARL THEODOR DREYER’S MICHAEL, OM 1924) AND ENPASSG THE PASSNATE POLIL WORK MA AT THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS CRISIS, TO EVERY PHOTO YOU’VE EVER SEEN OF GAY SAILORS, TO THE RADIL QUEER FEMISM OF ARTISTS LIKE BARBARA HAMMER, TO—OF URSE—THE OVERWHELMG AMOUNT OF QUEER ART THE FANTASY GENRE, ALL OF IMPLICLY K TO STAR WARS.AND THAT’S MERELY IF WE’RE STARTG OM THE 20TH CENTURY—I ULD GO ON AND ON, FURTHER AND FURTHER BACK. FOR ALL S ABSENC AND IMPOSSIBILI, THE VISUAL HISTORY OF QUEER REPRENTATN REMAS VAST. TLY, I AM NOT SURE WE GIVE ENOUGH CRED. ALL OF THIS—THE WARPED STUD PRODUCTS DOWN TO THE MOST MCULE EPHEMERA—UNTS TOWARD THE HISTORY OF QUEER REPRENTATN. AND OUT OF ALL OF THIS, TWO SENDS OF TWO WOMEN KISSG A STAR WARS MOVIE IS SUPPOSED TO BE MEANGFUL? IT’S ASSUMED THAT BEE STAR WARS IS SO POPULAR, A MOMENT LIKE THIS MIGHT “CHANGE ATTUS.” BUT, FACT, THE CLNS REFLECT ATTUS: THEY REFLECT A DISNEY THAT’S FALLY WILLG TO LET TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX KISS--OR, THE ENDGAME SE, REFER TO EACH OTHER AS PARTNERS. AND THE SAME MOMENT, THEY REFLECT HOW FAR DISNEY IS, OR ISN’T, WILLG TO GO. ABOUT TWO SENDS, ONE MOVIE. A THROWAWAY LE THE OTHER.WHEN I HEAR ANCHISE FILMMAKERS CLAIM THAT THEIRS WILL BE THE FIRST FILM OF THEIR ANCHISE TO DO THIS OR THAT WH LGBT REPRENTATN, WHAT I HEAR IS HUBRIS, OR AT LEAST A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND NTEXT. I DON’T HEAR THOSE FILMMAKERS POTG OUT HOW LATE THEY ARE—HOW ULD THEY PAT THEMSELV ON THE BACK AND SELF-CRIQUE AT ONCE?—OR HOW LTLE THE FX-RADIL ACTS OF REPRENTATN MEAN THE SCHEME OF THGS, HOW LTLE THEY ACTUALLY DO TO ENLIVEN, REFLECT, OR EXPLORE THE LIV OF QUEER PEOPLE OR, JT AS URGENTLY, CHALLENGE THE NORMS THAT HAVE MA THIS REPRENTATN NECSARY.NO, THE FILMMAKERS ARE STEAD NTENT TO GET JT BEFORE THE FISH LE, WAG UNTIL THE VERY LAST MOVI THEIR RPECTIVE ANCHIS TO THROW THE DOGS A BONE. THE ONLY WAY TO TALK ABOUT THE BENCHMARKS IS DISMISSIVELY: TOO LTLE, TOO LATE. BUT WE’RE OF URSE SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE. NEVER MD THE CREDIBLE TROVE OF LGBT REPRENTATN YOU DO SEE , SAY, FAN FICTN; NEVER MD ALL THE WAYS FANS HAVE TAKEN THE MERE IA OF FN AND POE AS LOVERS AND DONE MORE WH , WH MORE CREATIVY AND SYMPATHY, THAN ANY DISNEY PROPERTY WILL LIKELY EVER DO. NEVER MD THE FACT THAT, ACRDGLY, LGBT REPRENTATN DISNEY’S ART DO EXIST—AMONG S FANS, NOT S CREATORS.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINTHE IA THAT THE LGHABLY MOR WS ARE SOMETHG TO CELEBRATE GO HAND HAND WH DISNEY’S BROAR ATTU TOWARD FILM HISTORY, WHICH THE PANY HAS LONG SEEMED TO THK IS SOMETHG BETTER OFF LOCKED UP A VLT SOMEWHERE—THE BETTER TO EXPLO THE ART’S VALUE, AFTER ALL. LET’S JT SAY STRAIGHT: THE PANY THAT WON’T EVEN LET BABY YODA MEM FLOURISH WHOUT LOSG S SH OVER PYRIGHT WILL NEVER BE A BEAN OF REPRENTATN OF ANY SORT, LET ALONE QUEER REPRENTATN, WHICH, AMONG OTHER THGS, HAS OFTEN MA SPORT OF APPROPRIATG AND MSY-G THE FIRM SEXUAL BOUNDARI OSTENSIBLY STRAIGHT, PYRIGHTED ART. DISNEY IS TOO NCERNED WH REPRENTATN AS PRODUCT TO BE A BEAN OF ANYTHG. AND THE FANS WHO RE WILL STILL, EVEN AS OF THE TWO MOVI, LARGELY BE LEFT TO THEIR OWN CREATIVE, IMAGATIVE VIC—AND THEY ARE PROBABLY BETTER OFF.I’D FEEL A B DIFFERENTLY IF NO ONE VOLVED HAD NGRATULATED THEMSELV OR TREATED THIS LANDMARK B OF CLN LIKE ANYTHG BUT THE SHAME IS. BEE, OBVLY, THE MOMENTS MATTER MOST TO THE QUEER PEOPLE WORLDWI WHO LOVE THE MOVI. THEY UNRSTANDABLY FEEL ACKNOWLEDGED—BY A SCENE THAT, SHOULD ANY OF THE FILM’S TERNATNAL MARKETS BALK, N EASILY BE REMOVED, IF NECSARY. THAT HAS A WAY OF MAKG LOOK LIKE A POTENTIAL LIABILY, RATHER THAN LIKE A PART OF THE FAY. IS THAT WHAT WE’RE CELEBRATG?WHEN DISNEY DO THE BARE MIMUM, ISN’T ACKNOWLEDGG YOU: ’S BUYG YOU. IT’S BUYG EVERYONE, EVERYTHG. AND AMONG THE MANY REASONS ’S WORTH STOMPG OUR FEET OVER DISNEY’S PH TO LE THE WORLD OF MOVI IS THIS: THIS IS THE REPRENTATN YOU GET WHEN DISNEY L THE WORLD. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET: TWO WOMEN, TWO SENDS. TLY, I’M OVERWHELMED. BUT NOT THE WAY DISNEY HOP, OR THKS, I SHOULD BE.K. AT COLLS

The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly.

"When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet. Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life.

"When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years, and all they said was 'we know, '" Schnapp wrote of his g-out story, addg, "I gus I'm more siar to will than I thought. Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny. After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny.

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Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual.

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In 2019, the bisexual actor uld be seen as French New Wave in Jean Seberg Venice premiere tle Seberg, as a secret agent Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot and on a particularly gay episo of SNL.

The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune. After 45 seasons, 's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Night Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock 2019 as the st's first Che Amerin stmember and only s third openly gay male. Among them is Styl’ gay kiss wh star David Dawson the Amazon Prime Vio origal film My and Dawson’s kiss is petg agast kiss featured The Last of Us (Anna Torv & Philip Prajoux), Outer Banks (Madison Bailey & Rudy Pankow), Daisy Jon & the Six (Riley Keough & Sam Clafl), and Only Murrs the Buildg (Selena Gomez & Cara Delevgne).

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1680789602It’s also disappotg that such an stantly inic gay relatnship between the characters played by Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman on The Last of Us wasn’t regnized this tegory stead, given how well was received by dienc and crics alike. But I still feel viscerally annoyed that Andrew Garfield, who publicly intifi as straight, gets to do a thg that a star who publicly intifi as gay would not be able to do whout real drama and blowback. If any of the actors were really gay, as you pot out, we’d have a very different, and likely hostile, media reactn—bee gay men are supposed to keep their paws off the straight boys, you know?

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“On the one hand looks like the dtry is very open md to shippg culture, ” she told CNN, referrg to the culture among fans of imagg relatnships between their favore stars – cludg gay relatnships. In the absence of nfirmatn, mentators have ed small, clive clu to speculate on their stance, for example, the time the band’s lear RM tweeted Macklemore’s song “Same Love, ” which promot equal rights for gay people.

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.