It wasn't easy beg gay a long time ago that galaxy far, far away.
Contents:
- STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC, THE GAY PLA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE STRAIGHT MALE GAZE
- STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC AND S NEW ‘GAY PLA’
- ‘STAR WARS’ GAME SEGREGAT GAY CHARACTERS ON GAY PLA
- THE STAR WARS GAY GHETTO PLA OF MAKEB
- FANS UNHAPPY OVER “GAY PLA” “STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC”
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC, THE GAY PLA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE STRAIGHT MALE GAZE
<p><strong>Mary Haton:</strong> The recent ntroversy surroundg Old Republic's 'gay pla' approach to same-sex relatnships hts at a wir failure game sign</p> * star wars gay planet *
Makeb, the gay pla, is the sort of problem that about when a seri of perfectly reasonable cisns tak a velopment team to a very weird place. And the promise is Makeb, the gay pla, available only via download – and the only place the galaxy where relatnships n be formed wh NPCs of the same n see the well-meang thought procs volved tryg to fix this narrow issue.
We need to put gay character optns the game.
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC AND S NEW ‘GAY PLA’
And th: a gay home world, a segregated muny available only to high-level payg players. It seems strange to be givg a pany cred for makg a pay-to-gay pla, an ostracised world of same-genr romance, but to be fair to SW:TOR, a nicely equal genr spl of romanceable characters is not a bad place to start.
‘STAR WARS’ GAME SEGREGAT GAY CHARACTERS ON GAY PLA
There are some gam wh perfunctory romance elements that assume jt don't matter if you're male or female, gay or straight - Skyrim, for stance, has one of the most egalarian (if shallowt) romance systems around. But 's vanishgly rare that a game will assume homosexualy the way that most assume heterosexualy. When ers began noticg that the terms “gay” and “lbian” were banned om beg ed at all the muny, muny manager Sean Dahlberg rpond that the reason was that the were “terms that do not exist” the Star Wars universe.
THE STAR WARS GAY GHETTO PLA OF MAKEB
This led many to dub Makeb 'The Gay Pla, ' the only place the galaxy where queer love was allowed to exist. Abrams stated that “ seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world.
FANS UNHAPPY OVER “GAY PLA” “STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC”
But as the quote was wily reported at the time wh headl like “Gay Characters Comg to Star Wars, ” was one which many at the time terpreted as a sign that there was the possibily of a queer love story to e Abrams’ story. She was also very, very gay.
The vio game Star Wars Squadrons troduc multiple queer characters, cludg the gay Imperial manr Varko Grey, and the nonbary Mirialan Rebel pilot Keo Venzee. Jt Simien, the wrer and producer of the upg Lando televisn seri, me out as a gay man himself 2014. 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.