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Contents:
- FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
- GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
- STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
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Even after his ath, took another 28 years for the first gay character to appear Star Trek’s televisn seri (although y, novel tie-s, ics, fan works, and other non-nonil media featured a markedly improved number of LGBT Starfleet officers).
GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
Given that the first openly gay recurrg character on televisn wouldn’t appear until the edy Soap 1977 (and played by Billy Crystal, so not exactly a nuanced character portrayal), pictg one the ‘60s when Star Trek first aired would have been unthkable to most people.
STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
Of urse, much of what Star Trek did to highlight actors and characters of different ethnic backgrounds would have been pretty far-fetched for many televisn dienc of the time, too – so what ma gay stori different at the time?