‘Andor’ Fans Are Giddy for the New ‘Star Wars’ Gay Couple

Contents:

• ‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS
• STAR WARS RISTANCE NFIRMS ORKA AND FLIX AS OPENLY GAY UPLE
• ‘ANDOR’ FANS ARE GIDDY FOR THE NEW ‘STAR WARS’ GAY UPLE
• STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ONSCREEN COUPLESTAR WARS RISTANCE, WHICH AIRS ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL, FEATUR TWO CHARACTERS NAMED ORKA AND FLIX. BOBBY MOYNIHAN, WHO VOIC ORKA, PUT LIKE THIS: “ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’.... THEY’RE THE CUTT.”BY LRA BRADLEYOCTOBER 1, 2019COURTY OF DISNEY CHANNEL.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT LONG LAST, THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE FEATUR AN OPENLY GAY UPLE—AND APPARENTLY THEY’VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE. FANS OF THE ANIMATED SERI STAR WARS RISTANCE HAVE SPECTED THAT TWO CHARACTERS, ORKA (VOICED BY BOBBY MOYNIHAN) AND FLIX (JIM RASH), ARE A PAIR EVER SCE A SEASON-ONE EPISO, “DANGERO BS,” WHICH AIRED JANUARY AND FEATUR THE TWO VISG FLIX’S MOTHER. AND NOW, THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS HAVE NFIRMED THE ROMANCE ON THE PODST COFFEE WH KENOBI.EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JT RIDGE TOLD THE PODST, “I THK ’S SAFE TO SAY THEY’RE AN EM, ABSOLUTELY,” RIDGE TELLS PRS. “THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE, AND WE’RE PROUD OF THAT. WE LOVE FLIX AND ORKA.” MOYNIHAN ALSO CHIMED : “I HAVE HAD A SENTENCE PREPARED FOR A YEAR AND A HALF,” HE SAID. “IF SOMEONE WOULD FALLY ASK ME, I WOULD SAY, ‘ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’…. THEY’RE THE CUTT.”THE NEWS IS EXCG FOR FANS, BUT ALSO BTERSWEET: STAR WARS RISTANCE WILL END AFTER S SEND SEASON, WHICH BUTS ON OCTOBER 6. BUT AS MOR AS THE PROGRS IS A ANCHISE AS LONG AND EXPANSIVE AS STAR WARS, IS AT LEAST PROGRS. IT’S STRIKG THAT DISNEY WOULD RPORATE A GAY UPLE TO ANY OF S PROJECTS, BUT FEELS PECIALLY RONANT THAT ’S HAPPENG ON A CHILDREN’S SHOW. THEN AGA, ANIMATED SERI HAVE GIVEN SOME OF TV’S MOST NEEDLE-PHG MOMENTS SO FAR WHEN TO QUEER REPRENTATN YOUTH MEDIA—SO REALLY, STAR WARS IS SIMPLY JOG A GROWG TRADN.AS DEADLE NOT, THIS STAR WARS NEWS IS ALSO JT THE LATT EXAMPLE OF DISNEY SHORG UP S LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN. AS ANNOUNCED THIS PAST SUMMER, THE UPG THOR: LOVE AND THUNR WILL FD TSA THOMPSON’S VALKYRIE SEARCHG FOR “HER QUEEN”—AND THAT A CHARACTER OM THE UPG MARVEL FILM ETERNALS WILL ALSO BE GAY. SO SEEMS WE’VE MA SOME PROGRS SCE THAT “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST—BUT PECIALLY WH RISTANCE G TO AN END SOON, THERE’S ALWAYS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR MORE.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— APPLE LEARNS OM ONE OF NETFLIX’S BIGGT MISTAK— WHAT THE REAL-LIFE SPIRATN FOR HTLERS THKS OF J. LO’S PERFORMANCE— REMEMBERG SHAWSHANK REMPTN, 25 YEARS AFTER S BUT— A SPRKLE OF MEGHAN MAGIC CAPE TOWN— IMPEACHMENT FERVOR IS G A CK AT FOX NEWS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE DRAMA BEHD REBEL WHOUT A CSE AND A YOUNG STAR’S ATHLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY
• STAR WARS RISTANCE PRODUCERS CONFIRM AN OPENLY GAY COUPLE
• STAR WARS: EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'S CANON GAY COUPLE
• 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
• WATCH: STORMTROOPERS TAKE GAY LOVE TO THE DARK SI IN STARS WARS SPOOF

‘STAR WARS’ CHARACTERS ARE ‘ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE,’ PRODUCER NFIRMS

This year Star Wars has said would celebrate Pri month by lettg gay and trans artists “pay homage to some of the LGBT+ characters habg a galaxy far, far away” a special le of ic book vers. Sjir Rath Vel is the first major hero a Star Wars story to be gay. Author Chuck Wendig troduced the first gay ma character to the Star Wars universe the Imperial turnat Sjir Rath Vel.

Sjir Rath Vel, troduced Star Wars: Aftermath, was the first gay protagonist a Star Wars story. The novel also troduced two background characters who are gay. “They’re absolutely a gay uple, and we’re proud of that, ” executive producer Jt Ridge said of the show’s Flix and Orka characters, whom fans had long spected to be lovers.

STAR WARS RISTANCE NFIRMS ORKA AND FLIX AS OPENLY GAY UPLE

Flix and Orka are the first nfirmed gay uple to ever appear on-screen the “Star Wars” universe sce first h theaters 1977, although there have been fan-fueled mors about other potentially queer characters. “They’re absolutely a gay uple and we’re proud of that.

‘ANDOR’ FANS ARE GIDDY FOR THE NEW ‘STAR WARS’ GAY UPLE

This mak Orka and Flix the first openly gay uple to be portrayed on screen the Star Wars universe.

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.

STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ONSCREEN COUPLESTAR WARS RISTANCE, WHICH AIRS ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL, FEATUR TWO CHARACTERS NAMED ORKA AND FLIX. BOBBY MOYNIHAN, WHO VOIC ORKA, PUT LIKE THIS: “ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’.... THEY’RE THE CUTT.”BY LRA BRADLEYOCTOBER 1, 2019COURTY OF DISNEY CHANNEL.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT LONG LAST, THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE FEATUR AN OPENLY GAY UPLE—AND APPARENTLY THEY’VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE. FANS OF THE ANIMATED SERI STAR WARS RISTANCE HAVE SPECTED THAT TWO CHARACTERS, ORKA (VOICED BY BOBBY MOYNIHAN) AND FLIX (JIM RASH), ARE A PAIR EVER SCE A SEASON-ONE EPISO, “DANGERO BS,” WHICH AIRED JANUARY AND FEATUR THE TWO VISG FLIX’S MOTHER. AND NOW, THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS HAVE NFIRMED THE ROMANCE ON THE PODST COFFEE WH KENOBI.EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JT RIDGE TOLD THE PODST, “I THK ’S SAFE TO SAY THEY’RE AN EM, ABSOLUTELY,” RIDGE TELLS PRS. “THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY A GAY UPLE, AND WE’RE PROUD OF THAT. WE LOVE FLIX AND ORKA.” MOYNIHAN ALSO CHIMED : “I HAVE HAD A SENTENCE PREPARED FOR A YEAR AND A HALF,” HE SAID. “IF SOMEONE WOULD FALLY ASK ME, I WOULD SAY, ‘ALL I N SAY IS THAT WHEN FLIX SAYS, ‘I LOVE YOU,’ ORKA SAYS, ‘I KNOW’…. THEY’RE THE CUTT.”THE NEWS IS EXCG FOR FANS, BUT ALSO BTERSWEET: STAR WARS RISTANCE WILL END AFTER S SEND SEASON, WHICH BUTS ON OCTOBER 6. BUT AS MOR AS THE PROGRS IS A ANCHISE AS LONG AND EXPANSIVE AS STAR WARS, IS AT LEAST PROGRS. IT’S STRIKG THAT DISNEY WOULD RPORATE A GAY UPLE TO ANY OF S PROJECTS, BUT FEELS PECIALLY RONANT THAT ’S HAPPENG ON A CHILDREN’S SHOW. THEN AGA, ANIMATED SERI HAVE GIVEN SOME OF TV’S MOST NEEDLE-PHG MOMENTS SO FAR WHEN TO QUEER REPRENTATN YOUTH MEDIA—SO REALLY, STAR WARS IS SIMPLY JOG A GROWG TRADN.AS DEADLE NOT, THIS STAR WARS NEWS IS ALSO JT THE LATT EXAMPLE OF DISNEY SHORG UP S LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN. AS ANNOUNCED THIS PAST SUMMER, THE UPG THOR: LOVE AND THUNR WILL FD TSA THOMPSON’S VALKYRIE SEARCHG FOR “HER QUEEN”—AND THAT A CHARACTER OM THE UPG MARVEL FILM ETERNALS WILL ALSO BE GAY. SO SEEMS WE’VE MA SOME PROGRS SCE THAT “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST—BUT PECIALLY WH RISTANCE G TO AN END SOON, THERE’S ALWAYS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR MORE.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— APPLE LEARNS OM ONE OF NETFLIX’S BIGGT MISTAK— WHAT THE REAL-LIFE SPIRATN FOR HTLERS THKS OF J. LO’S PERFORMANCE— REMEMBERG SHAWSHANK REMPTN, 25 YEARS AFTER S BUT— A SPRKLE OF MEGHAN MAGIC CAPE TOWN— IMPEACHMENT FERVOR IS G A CK AT FOX NEWS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE DRAMA BEHD REBEL WHOUT A CSE AND A YOUNG STAR’S ATHLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY

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. 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.

Back the 2000s, was bluntly stated that gay people “did not exist Star Wars“. But this week’s episo of Andor — ‘The Axe Fets’ — sually reveals Star Wars‘ newt gay uple: Faye Marsay’s Vel and Varada Sethu’s Cta. Fans are over the tw moons about : Some mand a smooch before we properly celebrate: #andorOk, all the gays seem aaid to accept the cu about Vel and Cta so at least I’m not alone ?Be more clear, Star Wars.

— Spoopy Angel |?️‍? ४ ☽ ?‍☠️ (@angel_ponrs) October 5, 2022 Andor knows where stands: ANDOR SAID GAY RIGHTS I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS— Noah (@keldorjedii) October 5, 2022 Y, we all picked up on that: #andor // spoilers (maybe? )•••••gay y?

STAR WARS RISTANCE PRODUCERS CONFIRM AN OPENLY GAY COUPLE

They’re gay? There is a lot of homoerotic subtext between the two of them, and a romantic relatnship between them wouldn't have changed hardly anythg their story or the story overall.

STAR WARS: EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'S CANON GAY COUPLE

Abrams recently said that “of urse” gay characters would soon be seen  the “Star Wars” galaxy. And Mark Hal said that Le Skywalker uld be gay.

Juhani (right), a lbian thar alien, was featured the vio game “Knights of the Old Republic” 2004, and was the first nfirmed and openly gay character Star Wars.

'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' FEATUR FIRST GAY KISS A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY

Lord Cytharat is a gay Sh troduced “Star Wars: The Old Republic” 2013, and was the first character the long-nng onle game who uld share a kiss wh a player character of the same is a bisexual woman troduced “Star Wars: The Old Republic” 2013. There have been stanc of homophobia, transphobia and the reprentatn of LGBTQ+ nttants has been que limed.

Richard Hatch ma history as the very first wner of Survivor, and he did as an openly gay man. His iendship wh Courtney Yat was lightful to watch; many queer fans nsir Courtney a gay in herself, and they rema bt iends to this day.

Brice Izyah Johnston (Survivor: Cagayan).

WATCH: STORMTROOPERS TAKE GAY LOVE TO THE DARK SI IN STARS WARS SPOOF

Brice Izayah was the first openly gay Black nttant on Survivor and his charmg personaly and inic purple troers stantly won him a followg. Brice's time on Cagayan was short-lived, as he was voted out the send episo, but after Jeff Probst snuffed his torch he found his time to she:. Bret felt a kship to Zeke, who was also gay and felt fortable sharg this part of his inty.

They were Marvel’s first out gay teenage hero, and their first out gay hero uple as well. It should be noted that this is the first marriage between two gay hero Marvel Comics, but not two gay characters. At long last, the Star Wars universe featur an openly gay uple—and apparently they’ve been here for a while.

“They’re absolutely a gay uple, and we’re proud of that. It’s strikg that Disney would rporate a gay uple to any of s projects, but feels pecially ronant that ’s happeng on a children’s show. As announced this past summer, the upg Thor: Love and Thunr will fd Tsa Thompson’s Valkyrie searchg for “her queen”—and that a character om the upg Marvel film Eternals will also be gay.