Posted on 02/26/2016 7:26:34 PM PST by TraditionalMerica
Two months and two billion box office dollars later, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has reaped huge returns for Disney with its most progressive episode yet. Now that Daisy Ridleys Rey and John Boyegas Finn have given the Star Wars franchise its first female Jedi and black lead, respectively, does its fearless director J.J. Abrams see a future for a gay character in the galaxy?
Of course! Abrams said Thursday night at his Bad Robot HQ, where he hosted the US-Ireland Alliances annual Oscar Wilde Awards ahead of Sundays Oscars, where The Force Awakens is nominated in five categories. When I talk about inclusivity its not excluding gay characters. Its about inclusivity. So of course.
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I assume homosexuals ARE the Dark Force.
a hundred Star Wars movies with Jar Jar Binks would be better than ruining the franchise with gay characters...
In the first movie he did.
I never saw all the second but so can not say about that.
"G"-rated movies with "XX"-rated inescutcheons, compleat with ithyphallic imagery. Lovely. Guess that rates a gay high-five "Gotcha, Mom & Pop!"
Exactly what I thought when I read this. Star Wars has never been about who people have sex with - outright stupid to suggest that it should be.
Lawrence v. Texas only came about because a jilted old queen was jealous of the “attention” his partner was giving to the black boy toy they invited into their depravity. I am sure the responding officers would have preferred to avoid that “crime scene.”
Really? In what case was that their argument?
What with Sulu and the Kirk/Spock fan fiction there's not much new here.
I think it was staged specifically to force a court case. They chose Texas because they thought its sodomy law was weaker. It was worded in a different way.
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