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.
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- STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
- STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER
- STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTS A GAY CHARACTER AND A NEW ALIEN
STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTG UPDATE REVEALS GAY CHARACTER
Ian Alexanr and Blu l Barr will appear the third season of CBS Televisn's Star Trek: Disvery — a show which broke boundari by featurg a married gay uple as central characters for the first time the anchise's history. * discovery gay characters *
"Star Trek: Disvery broke boundari by featurg a married gay uple as central characters for the first time the anchise's show also entered a new ontier when actor Sonequa Mart-Green beme the first black woman to lead a Star Trek televisn seri.
"I nnot wa for you all to meet the betiful souls and wonrful artists, " said actor Anthony Rapp, who plays one of the show's two gay characters, on Twter. 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.
STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER
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. * discovery gay characters *
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offhand way, relled the way gay characters were “punished” for beg who they are old Hollywood films, and felt credibly outdated brgg Culber back to life, this week’s episo of Star Trek: Disvery fally rights a pretty ser wrong om the show’s first season. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cz), who ma history as the anchise’s first openly gay characters. In 2017, Rapp explaed to ET why ’s so “eply important” to be one-half of the first openly gay uple a Star Trek seri.
STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTS A GAY CHARACTER AND A NEW ALIEN
For the first time s 51-year history, the seri will feature a gay romance on the new CBS reboot. * discovery gay characters *
Disvery, which premiered September of 2017, is notable for beg the first Star Trek seri to feature openly and explicly gay ma characters played by LGBTQ+ actors, like Pl Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp), Dr.
Star Trek has cid to boldly go where no man has gone before--well, actually where Star Trek has never gone before: Homosexualy.
Related | Star Trek: Disvery Casts Anthony Rapp as a Gay LeadIn the new show, created by Bryan Fuller, the actn is set a before the origal Star Trek seri and looks to be the most diverse eratn of the show yet. At Comic Con, was announced that Wilson Cz and Anthony Rapp will play two lovers onboard the ship, which mak this the first time openly gay characters have appeared on the show--rather than retroactively unveilg a character to be gay like J. Anthony Rapp steps to the role of gay Star Trek: Disvery character Lt.
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Wh speculatn about a gay character g to the seri and, after a scene where Sulu (John Cho) kiss his hband didn't make the cut the anchise's last movie release (Star Trek Beyond), we now have official tails about Disvery's gay character; cludg his name and exactly who will be playg him. CBS Accs have nfirmed that Anthony Rapp (shown above Rent) will be playg the gay character Lt.
Whether or not re fans and loyalists to the anchise will be happy wh seeg a gay character the show still remas to be seen, but this looks to be a move by those behd the seri to brg a more clive and diverse roster of characters to viewers.
It’s certaly a step forward, wh the cisn to make Sulu a gay character Star Trek Beyond g some ntroversy and origal Sulu actor - the openly gay Gee Takei - even takg issue wh , sayg ma a change to Sulu’s history.