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

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

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. * is 3po gay *

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?

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

This is the 27th post a daily seri. Read about here and see the list of prev posts here. A new post about "Star Wars" will be posted every day for 40 days leadg up to the anchise's 40th birthday on May 25th. When J.J. Abrams said last year that he expected gay characters to play… * is 3po gay *

If a gay guy bleach his hair...

IS C3PO GAY?

* is 3po gay *

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. “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. 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.

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE GAY, STRAIGHT, OR SOMETHG BETWEEN?

In a society where most are expected to be straight, n be difficult to take a step back and tly ask if you’re gay, straight, or somethg else. There's no "right" way to e to terms wh your orientatn. But there are a few thgs you n do to explore your feelgs and help figure thgs out. Here's how. * is 3po gay *

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 . 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.

AM I GAY?

This is bee our society still teach that there are gay ways to act and straight ways to act.

In a tongue--cheek post for Gay Star News, Jam Whers wrote:. While my peers uldn’t stop talkg about Le Skywalker, Prcs Leia, and Han Solo, as a neophyte gay I knew the real story was about the robots: ‘Gay’ C-3PO and ‘lbian’ R2-D2. We all know neher had a romantic attachment, but the signs were all there for a young gay kid lookg for validatn a culture where there was none (m the parable soul sger-songwrer Sylvter).

A stereotypil gay man if there ever were one. ” But that is bi the pot, bee early on, Whers tablished his characterizatn of the droids was admtedly not about the droids but “a young gay kid lookg for validatn a culture where there was none.