Meet Lt. Stamets, the first openly gay character the 'Star Trek' TV universe
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.
‘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 *
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.
COMIC-CON: 'STAR TREK: DISVERY' GO ALL WH GAY STORYLE -- AND THERE'S A 'RENT' CONNECTN!
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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offhand way, relled the way gay characters were “punished” for beg who they are old Hollywood films, and felt credibly outdated brgg Culber back to life, this week’s episo of Star Trek: Disvery fally rights a pretty ser wrong om the show’s first season.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.
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.
‘STAR TREK: DISVERY’ FANS, HERE’S WHY ‘DPE YOURSELF’ DIDN’T ‘BURY ITS GAYS’
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.
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.
STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
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. 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!