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It’s not really a secret that on-screen representation in the live-action Celestial body Wars films is lacklustre, to express the least. To start, I’d appreciate to point out that the five main female protagonists of the trilogies and anthology films have all been cis, white brunettes. And while some progress has been made regarding male representation, women of colour with significant speaking roles were nowhere to be found pre-Rose Tico. In a galaxy so big—and supposedly diverse—it’s like, statistically impossible at this point.
What makes this issue even more aggravating is the fact that the current canon outside the films is doing an astonishing job at showcasing that Star Wars is indeed, for everyone. The books, comics, and animated series have some of the most diverse characters the franchise has ever seen, yet there is still a significant amount of work to be done with live-action.
The lack of advocacy is not just about race and/or ethnicity, either. It’s also about sexuality, body types, age, and disabilities. For example, before Celebrity Wars: The Last Jedi, no two female characters over 50 years elderly, had spoken to one anothe
Star Wars Has Always Been a Little Gay. It Just Needs to Come Out of the Closet.
The Star Wars is existence vast—encompassing 42 years of movies, TV shows, comics, books, toys, video games, and so much more. These stories are only limited by the imagination—the tales of magical beings, of aliens of all types, of distant worlds, languages, and relationships. But, in four decades, the franchise has never managed to depict a single queer romance on screen. And though it's elongated overdue, that might be about to change.
In an interview with Variety this week about the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker, writer and director J.J. Abrams suggested that the decades-spanning franchise's omission of gay characters could be coming to an conclude, saying, “In the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re organism represented in the film.”
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That representation is long overdue—not because it’s the “woke” thing to do or because it’s necessary, but because it’s borderline comical that across nine movies, no one has managed to bump into one outright LGBTQ personality. There have been friendships between humans and gian
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It’s Pride Month! This means celebrating with Celebration events and enjoying Homosexual television, games, books. Star Wars, in recent years, has finally started including LGBTQ+ characters, writers and directors into the franchise. For a long occasion, they were not representing these characters in the movies, with audiences having to wait all the way until 2019 just to see a background kiss between two female characters at the termination of The Rise of Skywalker.
Despite the movies lacking in representation, there has been a huge spread of LGBTQ+ characters appearing in novels, comics and the shows on Disney+. With Pride Month existence more important than ever in the current global climate, I thought what better way to mark than by exploring these characters in a galaxy far, far away!
LGBTQ+ inclusion in Star Wars movies and shows so far…
As mentioned, the only Gay rep we get to see in a Actor Wars film to hang out is the kiss between two women at the end of The Soar of Skywalker, in a blink and you fail it moment. This has caused some controversy from fans about the lack of anything major in the films, especially with prominent chara
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This is an engaging conversation to me, because 95% of the Star Wars characters are completely devoid of sexuality. Aside from the dramatized relationship between Han and Leia, and some little female objectification from Lando and Jabba, there was nothing (and yes, I’m purposefully leaving out the “romance” between Anakin and Padme). Yoda could contain been gay, or Obi-Wan, or Qui Gon, or even Luke (sure he said Leia was beautiful and got a kiss, but we all comprehend that doesn’t own to matter). I’m a gay guy, and I don’t really get worked up over stuff like this but I think it would be cold to see a gay character. However, it would create me go ‘meh’ if it were forced into the story to be “forward thinking.” To me, Star Wars has always been about friendship, family, adventure, and nice vs. evil. S exual relationships are incidental and off-screen, so if they had a male lover character I would hope they would stay in that vein. Let the characters be terrific, and then if there’s a affectionate interest that makes sense in the story arc, so be it. No matter what the genders are.