Dpe beg known as a lear terms of genr and racial tegratn, wasn't until 2017 that the first openly gay characters were troduced a Star Trek televisn show. We talk to curator Margaret Weekamp about Star Trek's history wh LGBTQ+ stori and characters.
Contents:
- STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
- STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
- IN AN HISTORIC MOVE, STAR TREK: DISVERY WILL FEATURE AN OPENLY GAY COUPLE, PLAYED BY GAY ACTORS
- ‘DISVERY’ WILL INCLU STAR TREK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ON TV
- STAR TREK: DISVERY GAY UPLE GET A SURPRISE RNN
- STAR TREK: DISVERY GAY UPLE GET A SURPRISE RNN
- 'STAR TREK: DISVERY' STARS, SHOWNNERS ON HANDLG STAR TREK'S FIRST GAY COUPLE
STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
Ian Alexanr and Blu l Barr will appear the third season of CBS Televisn's Star Trek: Disvery — a show which broke boundari by featurg a married gay uple as central characters for the first time the anchise's history. * discovery gay couple *
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’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
Star Trek: Disvery will feature the anchise's first gay uple, and they'll be played by gay actors. * discovery gay couple *
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offhand way, relled the way gay characters were “punished” for beg who they are old Hollywood films, and felt credibly outdated brgg Culber back to life, this week’s episo of Star Trek: Disvery fally rights a pretty ser wrong om the show’s first season. "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.
IN AN HISTORIC MOVE, STAR TREK: DISVERY WILL FEATURE AN OPENLY GAY COUPLE, PLAYED BY GAY ACTORS
* discovery gay couple *
"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.
‘DISVERY’ WILL INCLU STAR TREK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ON TV
Together, they play the science fictn anchise’s first regularly appearg gay uple aboard the U.
And of urse, they'll be fans who say, ‘”Oh, they’re killg off the gays aga! Ennis: As a pneer Star Trek, terms of beg an out gay man, playg a gay character, a relatnship wh another man, do you see that the unfoldg of havg non-bary characters like Adira and a trans character, even a ghostly versn, how do that make you feel terms of the craft and and our muny?
But wasn't until the 2017 Disvery premiere that out central characters would bee non: first, gay uple Culber and Stamets, then Adira and Gray, who are nonbary and trans. There, was "a b easier to be a gay person, " she shar. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cz), who ma history as the anchise’s first openly gay characters.
STAR TREK: DISVERY GAY UPLE GET A SURPRISE RNN
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. Star Trek: Disvery has boldly gone where no Star Trek show has gone CBS: All Accs drama troduced a gay uple to s dience Sunday -- a first the long-nng televisn anchise. Pl Stamets, ma history when he was troduced episo 3, beg the first clearly gay character this universe.
1508180517Star Trek: Disvery was -created by an out gay man, Bryan Fuller. Although Fuller has left the seri due to schlg nflicts, Aaron Harberts, who is also gay, remas as the shownner. So why did DS9’s producers ci to take such a huge risk wh a gay uple on their new show?
STAR TREK: DISVERY GAY UPLE GET A SURPRISE RNN
Creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be gay characters, and wrer David Gerrold even wrote a script to fulfill that promise for TNG’s first season.
'STAR TREK: DISVERY' STARS, SHOWNNERS ON HANDLG STAR TREK'S FIRST GAY COUPLE
They axed the script wh two gay men; when Gene proposed showg same-sex upl the background, they told a wrer to ignore him.
Years later, shownner and wrer Ira Steven Behr would exprs remorse at their failure to plumb those pths, and said that he wished they’d had Garak e out as gay so they uld have explored the relatnship further.