Star Trek reveals s first openly gay character | Mashable

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• STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
• STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER
• STAR TREK REVEALS S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• FIRST OPENLY GAY STAR TREK TV CHARACTER REVEALED
• STAR TREK: DISVERY ADDS GAY CHARACTER AND MORE

STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER

"Star Trek: Disvery broke boundari by featurg a married gay uple as central characters for the first time the anchise's show also entered a new ontier when actor Sonequa Mart-Green beme the first black woman to lead a Star Trek televisn seri.

STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER

"I nnot wa for you all to meet the betiful souls and wonrful artists, " said actor Anthony Rapp, who plays one of the show's two gay characters, on Twter.

The first openly gay characters the Star Trek televisn universe weren’t troduced until the first season of Star Trek: Disvery 2017. (Although is worth notg that the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond is tablished that the Hika Sulu of the Kelv Timele, portrayed by John Cho, is gay — a nod to Gee Takei, who origated the role of Sulu Star Trek: The Origal Seri and publicly me out as gay 2005. Hugh Culber, portrayed by out actors Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz, are the first openly gay characters and the first gay uple portrayed the central st of a Star Trek tv show.

There is one disappotg moment where seems that Disvery is playg to the “bury your gays” trope wh the (spoiler alert! The team behd the show sist that his short-lived ath isn’t a “bury your gays” moment, wh executive producer Aaron Harberts sayg an terview wh IndieWire: “It was sential that this crime not be gratuo.

STAR TREK REVEALS S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

He’s not killed bee he’s gay. In the mid- to late-1980s, a group of science fictn fans formed a group lled the Gaylactic Network wh the tly credible slogan, “Out of the closet and to the universe.

“As var groups of gay and lbian science fictn fans, like the Gaylactic Network, start to ph that they wanna see more posive reprentatn, Star Trek seems like a really likely place bee had been so out ont terms of posive pictns of Ain Amerins, Asian Amerins, women learship rol, ” Margaret explas.

There are nflictg acunts on whether Star Trek creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be an out gay character Star Trek: The Next Generatn (1987-1994), but ultimately there isn’t. And while this episo was very clearly Star Trek’s foray to a “gay rights” episo, left many disappoted. In 1992, ed genr inty as an allegory for homosexualy, but watchg today, you n’t help but wish uld have treated the ia of beg non-bary not as an allegory but as an ia to explore rpectfully and of self.

FIRST OPENLY GAY STAR TREK TV CHARACTER REVEALED

Disvery, which premiered September of 2017, is notable for beg the first Star Trek seri to feature openly and explicly gay ma characters played by LGBTQ+ actors, like Pl Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp), Dr. In 2017, Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz beme the first gay characters a same-sex marriage the anchise's history. Showg people of lor as pable officers back then was almost never as the gay rights movement gaed tractn all across the untry after 1969, fans hoped Trek would fally clu a gay character.

When The Next Generatn premiered 1987, an openly gay character was still pretty much out of the qutn on a “fay show. The seri that had been on the foreont of clivy was now extremely sheepish about cludg a regular gay st member.

STAR TREK: DISVERY ADDS GAY CHARACTER AND MORE

So when Disvery fally announced they were addg not merely a sgle gay character as a seri regular but a gay uple, the form of Lt. For a gay Trekker myself, after wag years to see proper LGBT reprentatn among the regular st of a Star Trek seri, was like reopeng an old wound and pourg salt .

The fact that he was killed off so soon after beg troduced, and such an offhand way, relled the way gay characters were “punished” for beg who they are old Hollywood films, and felt credibly outdated brgg Culber back to life, this week’s episo of Star Trek: Disvery fally rights a pretty ser wrong om the show’s first season. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cz), who ma history as the anchise’s first openly gay characters. In 2017, Rapp explaed to ET why ’s so “eply important” to be one-half of the first openly gay uple a Star Trek seri.

Anthony Rapp steps to the role of gay Star Trek: Disvery character Lt. Wh speculatn about a gay character g to the seri and, after a scene where Sulu (John Cho) kiss his hband didn't make the cut the anchise's last movie release (Star Trek Beyond), we now have official tails about Disvery's gay character; cludg his name and exactly who will be playg him. CBS Accs have nfirmed that Anthony Rapp (shown above Rent) will be playg the gay character Lt.

Whether or not re fans and loyalists to the anchise will be happy wh seeg a gay character the show still remas to be seen, but this looks to be a move by those behd the seri to brg a more clive and diverse roster of characters to viewers. It’s certaly a step forward, wh the cisn to make Sulu a gay character  Star Trek Beyond g some ntroversy and origal Sulu actor - the openly gay Gee Takei - even takg issue wh , sayg  ma a change to Sulu’s history. One of the new characters will be the s-old anchise’s first to be origally nceived and announced as gay.

Stamets is the new gay character; prevly, Trek in Lt. Sulu was revealed to be gay this year’s movie Star Trek Beyond.