'Star Wars' universe gets s first gay character | CNN

Contents:

• ‘STAR WARS’ ANNOUNC 20 NEW BOOKS, FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
• STAR WARS NOVELIST STRIK BACK AT GAY CHARACTER SLURS
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS
• ‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

‘STAR WARS’ ANNOUNC 20 NEW BOOKS, FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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Sjir Rath Vel, troduced Star Wars: Aftermath, was the first gay protagonist a Star Wars story. The novel also troduced two background characters who are gay.

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

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STAR WARS NOVELIST STRIK BACK AT GAY CHARACTER SLURS

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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS

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‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Chuck Wendig, thor of the new Star Wars novel Aftermath, has told fans who have objected to his cln of a gay character that “You’re not the good guys... ” And add: “If you n image a world where Le Skywalker would be irrated that there were gay people around him, you pletely missed the pot of Star Wars” Wars: Aftermath by Chuck WendigPublished last week, Star Wars: Aftermath has already risen to number four on the New York Tim btseller list and been hailed by SciFiNow as “a journey that is both breathtakg yet rtraed, throwg you headlong to a story that reach s crcendo at around the half-way pot and matas this pace throughout”.

Wendig also troduc a new character, Sjir Rath Vel, who is, who tweeted that prevly took him three years to accumulate 300 reviews on his novel Blackbirds, 62% of which were five-star, attributed the cril slammg to var factors, om simple dislike of the novel, to the fact he is not Timothy Zahn, thor of prev Star Wars novels, and apologised to rears who were hopg for “a lndry list of tails about what happens between this and the new movie” on his blog, Terrible Mds, Wendig h back at rears who acced the thor on Amazon of “blatantly phg a gay agenda” and suggted that the anchise was no longer “children iendly”. “If you’re upset bee I put gay characters and a gay protagonist the book, I got nothg for you, ” Wendig wrote. And ’s a fabuloly gay Nyan Cat meteor wh a rabow trailg behd and your mo of thought will be extct.

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