Star Wars is troducg s first nonil gay character bis C-3PO

Contents:

• C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
• STAR WARS IS TRODUCG S FIRST NONIL GAY CHARACTER BIS C-3PO
• THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY
• IS C3PO GAY?

C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”

Two weeks ago, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the fal stallment the space opera’s third trilogy, buted to lacklter reviews and watered down a much-anticipated queer moment: a brief and unrwhelmg gay kiss. He proved that gays are not a monolh and n, fact, show up early. Openly gay Brish actor Anthony Daniels, who plays the droid all films, is 5-foot-9.

Jt saw Star Wars and I’m FURIOUS that C3PO and R2D2 still aren’t gay. So a gay droid go through multiple midlife cris and cis to “reboot” his personaly each time only to fd that don’t temper his anxiety? If a gay guy bleach his hair...

Gee Lus a rare terview admted that the popular C-3PO character was origally based on his gay iend, Josh Templar, who helped him sign some of the Star Wars characters at the time. This would make C-3PO, a humanoid robot character played by Anthony Daniels, the first officially gay character of the Star Wars movie seri.

STAR WARS IS TRODUCG S FIRST NONIL GAY CHARACTER BIS C-3PO

“At first, C-3PO was not tend to be a robot but a Morphlak, a humanoid speci that were only of male genr, but the stud wasn’t too open about the ia of a gay character, let alone a whole pla stag a gay speci” he remembers. Although 20th Century Fox ially cricized the ia to have a gay character the seri, Gee Lus got his way around by hirg Anthony Daniels, one of the rare outspoken and openly gay actors at the time.

“We told him about the character’s homosexual clatns but not to make too visibly “open”, due to the producers reticence. He surprised by takg a gay Brish accent which we believed was jt pure geni, that’s how the character took place and is ankly one of the most popular characters of the seri wh his pann R2-D2, as everybody knows” he acknowledged.

Abrams has also revealed a recent terview that the newt episo of the anchise would be troducg a major new gay character to the Star Wars Universe. Next article Sdi Arabia: Famo Racehorse to be Executed for Beg Gay.

THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY

“But there was a gay Mandalorian uple, so ’s not brand new.

However, you uld only do so on Makeb, “the gay pla, ” which followed the Star Wars universe’s cree that all plas have only a sgle esystem, whether they be all-sert or all-homosexual. Abrams said last year that he expected gay characters to play a part the diversy of the future movi, many fans had hop he was referrg to Poe and Fn. The speculatn that C-3PO and R2-D2 were gay is not new, as fans have bated (and joked about) that possibily on msage boards for at least a .

IS C3PO GAY?

The argument that the droids were gay rts on C-3PO’s mannerisms. Bee he had the effete affectatns stereotypilly associated wh gay men, he mt have been gay himself. Some fans cry this as an attempt to sexualize characters a kids’ movie and further a “gay agenda.

That C-3PO uld not have any type of sexual or emotnal relatnship is sendary to our societal need to thk that jt bee he “acts gay” he mt be gay. This is bee our society still teach that there are gay ways to act and straight ways to act.