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Contents:

• STAR WARS IS GAY! 7 CANONILLY QUEER AND NON-BARY CHARACTERS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
• IN A GAY GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: 9 ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS WHO WE’VE DECID ARE QUEER
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• ‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
• OUT OF SPACE: STAR WARS RISTANCE HAS GAY CHARACTERS, DISNEY SAYS

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

This year Star Wars has said would celebrate Pri month by lettg gay and trans artists “pay homage to some of the LGBT+ characters habg a galaxy far, far away” a special le of ic book vers. Sjir Rath Vel is the first major hero a Star Wars story to be gay. Author Chuck Wendig troduced the first gay ma character to the Star Wars universe the Imperial turnat Sjir Rath Vel.

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.

IN A GAY GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: 9 ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS WHO WE’VE DECID ARE QUEER

Abrams went on a whirlwd prs tour to tout the first gay kiss all of Star Wars. Flix and Orka are a fully nonil gay uple.

The game’s 2009 release mak Juhani one of the first openly gay characters (that didn’t get retnned) the Star Wars universe. A regular human, Rath is the first openly gay character the seri. Abrams recently said that “of urse” gay characters would soon be seen  the “Star Wars” galaxy.

And Mark Hal said that Le Skywalker uld be gay. Juhani (right), a lbian thar alien, was featured the vio game “Knights of the Old Republic” 2004, and was the first nfirmed and openly gay character Star Wars. Lord Cytharat is a gay Sh troduced “Star Wars: The Old Republic” 2013, and was the first character the long-nng onle game who uld share a kiss wh a player character of the same is a bisexual woman troduced “Star Wars: The Old Republic” 2013.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED

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Crisp’s young Han Solo trilogy, kept a mistrs to imprs his Imperial lleagu and to hi the fact that he was not terted women, leadg to fandom speculatn that the character was meant to be terpreted as gay.

‘STAR WARS’ UNIVERSE GETS S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

But even if Juhani’s relatnship wh a female Revan was nsired non-non, her sexualy remaed unchanged: part of Juhani’s arc the first game impli that she prevly had a relatnship wh a childhood iend and fellow Jedi iate, Belaya, and briefly fell to the Dark Si part due to her ep feelgs for Belaya gog agast the Jedi Co of would take a few more years for Star Wars to receive s first gay character, but wh would e another important step the anchise’s history: the first queer married uple. Although Bevi and Vasur were Star Wars’ first gay uple, none of their appearanc the novels explicly noted that they were married. In 2009—years before TOR would release 2011—fom muny manager Sean Dahlberg was forced to apologize after fendg the choice for the game’s fan foms to filter “gay” and “lbian” as banned terms by argug that they are terms “that do not exist Star Wars.

But many felt Makeb was beg treated as “the gay pla, ” and that players terted queer romanc and characters were not beg given equable all s false starts, TOR would eventually improve. Most notably, the trilogy add the “first non” gay characters, the form of ex-Imperial Sjir Rath Vel— who fected om the Empire after the battle of Endor and beme a major pot-of-view character the first book the seri—and his boyiend, a New Republic Slicer named Conr wasn’t jt the new, post-Return of the Jedi timele that the Disney age brought LGBTQ reprentatn to. Star Wars didn’t get a nfirmed gay uple until the 2006 novel Bloodl, and even after that reprentatn was sorely lackg (the character Juhani om 2003’s Knight of the Old Republic is *technilly* the first LGBTQ+ character Star Wars, as you uld romance her while playg as a female Revan, however, this pairg is non-nonil as Revan is nonilly male and had a relatnship wh Bastila Shan).

STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.

Most people are likely faiar wh the pathetilly hidn (and wardly removed some regns) gay kiss om the Rise of Skywalker, which was more of a slap the face to reprentatn than anythg else.

OUT OF SPACE: STAR WARS RISTANCE HAS GAY CHARACTERS, DISNEY SAYS

There is a #gaymoment for Disney to make a fs about. The Aftermath trilogy ntas two gay upl, and Eleodie Maravanya is genr-ntral, often g the zhe/zher pronouns.

Last year, Eternals ma history as the first MCU movie to feature the first gay on-screen kiss the anchise's history. Delian Mors, for example, tablished herself as the first LGBTQIA+ Star Wars character who was wrten as an openly gay woman 2015 Pl S. ' They say to me, 'Could Le be gay?

If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is. A "Don't Say Gay" bill proposed Florida reads that "classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards" per NPR's reportg.