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Contents:

• ALIEN: COVENANT TRODUC THE ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY CHARACTERS
• GAY ROMANCE FEATURG ALIENS
• GAY COUPLE IN ‘ALIEN: COVENANT’ NOT THE FIRST LGBT CHARACTERS IN ‘ALIEN’ SERI
• THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY
• GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
• GAY ALIEN BOOKS

ALIEN: COVENANT TRODUC THE ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY CHARACTERS

Alien: Covenant is headg to cemas this Friday and the early reactns have been great (read our review), but one of the notable thgs about the film is that featur the Alien anchise's first openly gay (Demián Bichir) and Hallett (Nathaniel Dean) are two member of the crew of the Covenant, a ship takg 2, 000 lonists to a new pla they're hopg will be a hospable alternative to earth.

This is a scene not the film, and at the time of wrg Fox seems to have taken off s YouTube channel, so we n't actually embed here – the movie 's acknowledged that Lope and Hallett are a uple and also that they're married (both wear weddg rgs) somethg like Bety and the Beast, the anchise troduc s first gay characters whout makg much of a thg of .

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GAY ROMANCE FEATURG ALIENS

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GAY COUPLE IN ‘ALIEN: COVENANT’ NOT THE FIRST LGBT CHARACTERS IN ‘ALIEN’ SERI

And 's not jt unique bee 's the first LGBTQ relatnship the Alien-verse, but an credibly unmon portrayal of gay men on a much larger sle. In te Alien fashn, the film is flippg nventnal genr and sexualy stereotyp on their head, and the anchise's first gay uple are "old-school" ary typ, nsummate protectors, and as Bichir explaed, macho as uld be.

Stt went on to say he regretted not explicly cludg any gay reprentatn the movie, and the proposed way of rporatg this ntent was far om panrg. If you were holdg your breath for gays space 2017, you might want to hold a b longer.

THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY

Prevly, there had been murmurs of the cln of a gay uple Alien: Covenant, which hs theaters this month. Havg seen the film, I n tell you the amount of gayns there is negligible, so much so that you might even miss if you don't know where to look.

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And yet, while the small moments themselv may have been kd of a letdown, there are some aspects of them that mark a different kd of we really dig to Alien: Covenant's own "exclively gay moment, " I want to beg wh the bottom le: the LGBTQ muny sperately needs more reprentatn TV and film.

HBO's Lookg managed to shed light on what 's like to be a gay man San Francis. The CW's Riverdale, though guilty of queerbag, do have a gay character who has a boyiend. Even on ABC, we've seen some of the trials of navigatg a relatnship between two gay men on How to Get Away Wh still need gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer characters lead rol on major works.

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We still need gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer characters lead rol on major works. After all, Moonlight is the story of a gay black man growg up and g to terms wh his sexualy Miami, and won bt picture at the Osrs this year.

In the months leadg up to the film, Disney revealed that LeFou would be the first openly gay Disney character ever, and that we would get an "exclively gay moment" before the end of the film. Admtedly, Alien: Covenant's gay cln is even smaller.