Is Le Skywalker Gay? Mark Hal Opens Up About 'Star Wars' Characters' Sexualy

Contents:

• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’S GAY CHARACTERS EXPLAED
• GAY MARRIAGE TO STAR WARS . . . FOR A PRICE
• IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY
• GAY MARRIAGE IN 'STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC' VIO GAME RTRICTED TO SGLE 'GHETTO' PLA
• STAR WARS: SQUADRONS CONFIRMED TO FEATURE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

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

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GAY MARRIAGE TO STAR WARS . . . FOR A PRICE

There are now officially gay characters the new Star Wars April 2014, Lusfilm announced they were relegatg all the existg "Expand Universe" material to "Legends" stat, makg way for a pletely tegrated and nonil Star Wars ntent landspe. While this new non is still evolvg, we've already been troduced to a bunch of officially lbian and gay characters—which is awome! Abrams is nvced we'll see gay Star Wars characters the asked if he se room for gay characters a galaxy far, far away, The Force Awakens director J.

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IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY

Crisp’s young Han Solo trilogy, kept a mistrs to imprs his Imperial lleagu and to hi the fact that he was not terted women, leadg to fandom speculatn that the character was meant to be terpreted as gay. But even if Juhani’s relatnship wh a female Revan was nsired non-non, her sexualy remaed unchanged: part of Juhani’s arc the first game impli that she prevly had a relatnship wh a childhood iend and fellow Jedi iate, Belaya, and briefly fell to the Dark Si part due to her ep feelgs for Belaya gog agast the Jedi Co of would take a few more years for Star Wars to receive s first gay character, but wh would e another important step the anchise’s history: the first queer married uple.

Although Bevi and Vasur were Star Wars’ first gay uple, none of their appearanc the novels explicly noted that they were married. In 2009—years before TOR would release 2011—fom muny manager Sean Dahlberg was forced to apologize after fendg the choice for the game’s fan foms to filter “gay” and “lbian” as banned terms by argug that they are terms “that do not exist Star Wars. But many felt Makeb was beg treated as “the gay pla, ” and that players terted queer romanc and characters were not beg given equable all s false starts, TOR would eventually improve.

GAY MARRIAGE IN 'STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC' VIO GAME RTRICTED TO SGLE 'GHETTO' PLA

Most notably, the trilogy add the “first non” gay characters, the form of ex-Imperial Sjir Rath Vel— who fected om the Empire after the battle of Endor and beme a major pot-of-view character the first book the seri—and his boyiend, a New Republic Slicer named Conr wasn’t jt the new, post-Return of the Jedi timele that the Disney age brought LGBTQ reprentatn to. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker se two gay characters share a kiss, markg a tone anchise history.

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.

STAR WARS: SQUADRONS CONFIRMED TO FEATURE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

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. 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.