Contents:
- XENA THE WARRR PRCS WAS “DEFELY” GAY
- XENA WILL BE OPENLY GAY ‘XENA: WARRR PRCS’ REBOOT
- XENA AND GABRIELLE WILL BE GAY ‘WARRR PRCS’ REVIVAL, WRER HTS
- LUCY LAWLS 'XENA' IS A GAY IN AND SHE IS HAPPY WH IT
- XENA WILL BE OPENLY GAY NBC'S 'WARRR PRCS' REBOOT
XENA THE WARRR PRCS WAS “DEFELY” GAY
"That iendship between Xena and Gabrielle transmted some msage of self-worth, servedns, and honor to people who felt very margalized, so had a lot of ronance the gay muny. But you know what would have even more ronance for the gay muny? An actual gay relatnship.
XENA WILL BE OPENLY GAY ‘XENA: WARRR PRCS’ REBOOT
Gay relatnships were extremely ntroversial the '90s and '00s TV landspe. Thgs only got gayer om there. On the negative si, the queerdg of Xena and Gabrielle has bee the standard for entertament pani that want gay dienc whout the risk of offendg homophob.
People on TV n jt be gay, 's okay! That iendship between Xena and Gabrielle transmted some msage of self-worth, servedns, and honor to people who felt very margalized, so had a lot of ronance the gay muny. Grillo-Marxuach said recently there would be "no reason" for him to do the show if he were unable to explore Xena's sexualy—somethg the origal '90s seri shied away 2016, we are ed to seeg reprentatns of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny films and on televisn.
XENA AND GABRIELLE WILL BE GAY ‘WARRR PRCS’ REVIVAL, WRER HTS
But that wasn't the se the 1990s when Xena and Gabrielle first burst onto the scene wh their subtextual the show lnched September 1995, there were no other proment gay characters leadg primetime shows on Amerin TV.
"When Xena: Warrr Prcs began airg 1995, gay rights laws were begng to advance across several stat. But the agmented televisn landspe between work programs, ble shows and streamg service origals suggts there's still a long way to the latt Where We Are on TV report, GLAAD's annual look at reprentatn of LGBT people on televisn, data found that of the 881 seri regulars—that's top-billed st who (ually) appear every episo—on work programmg the 2015-16 TV season, jt 35 are expected to be intified as gay, lbian or bisexual. Gay is part of normal': Lucy Lawls discs the 'lbian romance' between superhero Xena and her gal pal Gabrielle the popular Warrr Prcs seri Updated: 16:56 BST, 29 June 2019.
LUCY LAWLS 'XENA' IS A GAY IN AND SHE IS HAPPY WH IT
Gay is part of normal': Lucy Lawls discsed the 'lbian romance' Xena: Warrr Prcs this week's issue of Stellar.
Pictured a shoot for Stellar magaze Although was never explicly stated the seri, Lucy has nfirmed the pair were gay, love - and 's no big al. Gay is part of normal. It was never explicly stated, but Lucy has nfirmed the pair were a gay uple.
” To this day, the actrs regularly appears at gay pri events, like Sydney’s Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. We’re not here to talk about Xena’s imprsive on screen body-unt or all those people she punched to ath though, we’re here to talk about the fact she was probably one of the first gay protagonists to grace our TV screens, even if we didn’t know . For those of you who watched the show whout pickg up on the massive homosexual overton prent between Xena and her lady iend, Gabrielle.
XENA WILL BE OPENLY GAY NBC'S 'WARRR PRCS' REBOOT
In a 2003 terview wh Lbian News (y, that’s a real magaze) Lucy Lawls revealed that she personally felt that Xena was “fely gay”, nsirg Lawls is the person who played the character, that’s about as close as anyone is ever gog to get to a five answer on the subject of what or who Xena lik to do her spare time. However, once the show end, Lawls beme immediately aware of the the impact her character had, had on gay women around the globe.
When Lawls learned that many gay women thought of Xena as both a role mol and an example of a strong pennt woman who didn’t take sh om anyone who, snapped necks and shed checks like there was no tomorrow, she began to thk about her own thoughts on the characters sexualy.
Upon realisg that, didn’t take Lawls long to realised that Xena probably was gay.