Posted on 12/29/2018 8:47:17 AM PST by EdnaMode
Today is the last Friday of the year, and also the last day that Twitter is featuring #SWRepMatters, a Twitter campaign designed to talk about representation in all forms in the Star Wars universe. This runs the gamut from racial and ethnic representation to sexuality to disabled rep, with each month focusing on a new identity. As the year comes to a close, the founders of the event have used today to talk about the ways in which Star Wars did right by rep this year, and where they still need to grow.
We’re a year out from Episode IX now, and none of the films have included a character who identifies as being part of the LGBT+ community. Fans have speculated about the character of Poe Dameron, played by Oscar Isaac, since he bit his lip and offered Finn (John Boyega) his jacket.
Screenwriter Jon Kasdan and star Donald Glover implied that Lando Calrissian might be pansexual, but the onscreen rep for that seems to be his romantic interest in his female-identified droid rather than any actual flirtation or romance with a male character. Rian Johnson said there was no room for sexuality in his film The Last Jedi, all while talking about how Rey and Kylo’s fingers touching is a sex scene.
Now, we’re four films into the new Star Wars, some might say. Give them time. But the problem is is that we shouldn’t have to wait in 2018, almost 2019, for a major franchise that’s been around for over 40 years to recognize that LGBT+ characters might exist. A line about Poe’s boyfriend wouldn’t have dragged down The Last Jedi any more than an unnecessary shirtless Kylo Ren scene did.
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I don’t watch much TV, but keep hearing that almost all sitcoms have the token homosexual character.
Are we saying that the small minority of “LGBT” types need to be represented in every situation, every TV show, every movie? What are we saying?
And what of the box office? For example, have there been any major homosexual themed movies since Brokeback Mountain? That movie didn’t do well enough to inspire the creation of other homosexual themed movies.
“ag hags”
They can be “friends” with men and exgage in sexy banter but put them on a shelf with the command “look but don’t touch”.
And remember. Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca were illegal alien “refugees”.
SOLO was the last good Star Wars movie. I’ve heard it described as a “heist” movie but it felt more like a Western in space. I give it a slight edge over Rogue One.
Wasn’t 1980s Flash Gordon gayer than Star Wars?
I mean Queen did the soundtrack and in one of the songs of the era (Bicycle Race) Freddie Mercury sang “I don’t like Star Wars”
>>Seriously, lets take a billion dollar franchise, beloved for 40 years, and insert something to OFFEND the majority and court a tiny minority?
This is why we can’t have nice things
Make Episode IX all gay, all trans, all women, all creepy animated characters like Polar Express all based on Hillary Clinton, or CGI the original cast with the voices of the Chipmunks, it doesn’t matter because after Episodes 1, 2, and 3, and finished off by Episode VIII, you’ve made me, an original Star Wars fan from June 1977, into an Episode Never Again.
Kathleen Kennedy is just dumb enough to do this, too.
>>And what of the box office? For example, have there been any major homosexual themed movies since Brokeback Mountain?
There was the one at the Oscars about the summer man-boy-love affair which needed digital editing to remove the dude’s ballsack from hanging out of his short shorts.
I thought r2 d2 was gay?
Use the KY jelly Luke.
Perhaps there are no gays in Star Wars for the same reason there were no Muslims in Star Trek. Maybe they don’t exist in the future. Well, I guess Star Wars is technically supposed to be in the past...
essentially what they are saying is “God, we’re sick and tired of being a blessed nation, and we wish now to slide off into an immoral chasm where we can’t see Your face any longer- so we’re going to petition, beg, movie companies to glorify immorality and abominations”
Nah. Artoo was never gay. Kenny Baker however was notorious for smoking weed during breaks while still inside the Artoo shell. Reefer smoke would be pouring out of Artoo’s vents.
It's got to stop.
What do you think Luke and Leia (and Han and Chewy) were up to behind the scenes?
I have genuinely never understood why people would be interested in a character being gay, black, Asian, hermaphrodite, whatever. Very peculiar to be honest. It’s a fictional character.
Kennedy works for GL not for Disney.
Sophisticated villains often were, back in the old days, at least by implication.
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