Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’s Gay Characters Explaed

Contents:

• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS
• ‘STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER’ GAY MOMENT DON’T FAZE CHE AUDIENC, CENSORS
• 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
• STAR WARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE GAY. IT JT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
• CHE CENSORS, DIENC UNFAZED BY 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' GAY KISS

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

And even if the expand Star Wars lore has clud LGBT characters like The Last Jedi's Admiral Holdo and Star Wars Ristance featurg the gay uple of Orka and Flix, the movi have been slow on the uptake. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker se two gay characters share a kiss, markg a tone anchise history.

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

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ma anchise history by featurg two gay characters kiss on screen.

Disney actually removed the kiss om The Rise of Skywalker natns wh strict laws surroundg homosexual relatnships. In Sgapore, male homosexual acts are technilly illegal. Female homosexual acts are legal, but the The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss was removed anyway, so that the film uld mata s PG-13 ratg.

Dubai cut the kiss too, as all homosexual relatnships are agast the law  Uned Arab Emirat. On the other end of the spectm, The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss also me unr cricism for not gog far enough. But sce dienc had no attachment to the characters, there was no emotnal payoff to this quick reprentatn for gay characters.

‘STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER’ GAY MOMENT DON’T FAZE CHE AUDIENC, CENSORS

Marvel touted their first-ever gay character leadg up to Avengers: Endgame. That reprentatn only end up beg -director Joe Rso meog as a gay man who discs an upg date.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's gay kiss was a baby step the right directn, but not enough to be nsired legimate LGBTQ reprentatn.

'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY

More: Onward’s Gay Character Prov Disney’s Reprentatn Problem.

Abrams has been htg sce The Force Awakens that Star Wars would eventually have gay characters, and fally happened.

"So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn't be a homosexual character that world.

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

I am exced to see what the anchise do next to reprent more gay characters a galaxy far, far away. Earlier this year, Avengers: Endgame featured Marvel’s first openly gay character.

“We’ve done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi. Aga, the moment was highly touted by director Bill Condon, who lled an “exclively gay moment a Disney movie. It seemed the Star Wars universe might troduce s first gay characters 2016’s Rogue One wh Chirt (Donnie Yen) and Baze (Jiang Wen); however, their relatnship was kept platonic.

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. "Disney has a history of showg brief "gay moments" recent films like "Avengers: Endgame" and "Bety and the Beast. "Marvel's "The Eternals" will feature a more proment openly gay character when to theaters next Insir's homepage for more.

CHE CENSORS, DIENC UNFAZED BY 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' GAY KISS

A pattern of subtle gay moments Disney blockbtersThe moment is also troublome bee this isn't the first time Disney put a scene like this one of s larger movi.

Disney put a blk-and-you'll-miss- "gay moment" 2017's "Bety and the Beast" near the film's end. The pany also had a siar overblown moment "Avengers: Endgame" that was praised for showsg Marvel's first openly gay character. You may image the openly gay character mt have been one of the film's dozens of superhero on screen, right?

Did you even tch that this moment wh the "Avengers: Endgame" director was a mor "gay moment"? "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.