Anthony Rapp steps to the role of gay Star Trek: Disvery character Lt. Stamets, while Doug Jon is st as a new alien member of Starfleet.
Contents:
- FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
- ‘STAR TREK: DISVERY’ MA GAY LOVE EXPLIC LAST NIGHT, MATCHG RED PAJAMAS
- COMIC-CON: 'STAR TREK: DISVERY' GO ALL WH GAY STORYLE -- AND THERE'S A 'RENT' CONNECTN!
- ‘STAR TREK: DISVERY’ FANS, HERE’S WHY ‘DPE YOURSELF’ DIDN’T ‘BURY ITS GAYS’
- STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
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. * star trek discovery gay scene *
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. 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offhand way, relled the way gay characters were “punished” for beg who they are old Hollywood films, and felt credibly outdated brgg Culber back to life, this week’s episo of Star Trek: Disvery fally rights a pretty ser wrong om the show’s first season. More than halfway through Pri Month, the LBGT+ staff here at TrekMovie thought the perfect time to brg a ltle gayns to your life.
‘STAR TREK: DISVERY’ MA GAY LOVE EXPLIC LAST NIGHT, MATCHG RED PAJAMAS
Anthony Rapp revealed the actor who will be playg his openly gay character's love tert. * star trek discovery gay scene *
And what better way to unwd durg the tough tim than wh a gay Star Trek marathon? But, spe Trek not havg any openly gay characters for s first five s, there’s a lot of LGBT+ love to go around.
This isn’t exactly a “rah rah we love the gays” moment, but ’s too funny not to clu. Jadzia Normaliz Gay Romance DS9’s “Rul of Acquisn”. While you uld argue that this isn’t a gay Trek moment ( lerally isn’t—that’s the pot of the scene), ’s still a msage about the general acceptance of LGBT+ people the 24th century.
It’s so monplace that beg gay is ls of an issue for Pel than beg a woman is.
COMIC-CON: 'STAR TREK: DISVERY' GO ALL WH GAY STORYLE -- AND THERE'S A 'RENT' CONNECTN!
Meet Lt. Stamets, the first openly gay character the 'Star Trek' TV universe * star trek discovery gay scene *
While Dax was already one of the most socially liberal characters Star Trek, ’s still a nice feelg to see someone assumed to be gay get treated like a normal person. Jt bee ’s one of Trek’s “gayt moments” don’t mean ’s one of our favore on. In realy, we’re jt as discerng as straight or gay folks—’s jt that genr don’t terme whether or not we are attracted to someone.
Not all gay moments are great moments…. Garak is gay! Andrew Robson gave Garak such chaotic gay energy that me through like twenty pounds of prosthetics.
‘STAR TREK: DISVERY’ FANS, HERE’S WHY ‘DPE YOURSELF’ DIDN’T ‘BURY ITS GAYS’
This was a big moment Star Trek history: the first openly gay character Star Trek. And, as we’ve monstrated here, there have been clearly LGBT+ characters Trek before, but that don’t tract om the importance of this moment, this small blk-and-you-miss- moment between Sulu, his hband, and their dghter that means fally, ’s official: Star Trek has a gay character!
) The origal Hika Sulu, Gee Takei (who is gay himself) took issue wh makg Sulu gay Beyond. Sulu’s brief fatherly moment Star Trek Beyond may have been the first stance of an openly gay character on Trek, but there is no nyg that Jadzia Dax was the first openly LGBT+ (emphasis on the pl) character on Star Trek.
STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
Ined, Dax’s entire existence uld fill this sectn, but we’ll also highlight a uple of key “gay” Dax moments throughout Deep Space Ne. The first is the famo “gay kiss.