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Star Wars still needs improvement in LGBTQ+ representation in live-action, but books, games, and comics showcase exceptional characters. Characters like Sabé, Kantam Sy, and Terec/Ceret demonstrate diverse LGBTQ+ representation in the Jedi Order across various media. Lando, Rae Sloane, and Varko Grey bring important LGBTQ+ representation into the Star Wars saga, expanding on their identities.

Some characters may qualify for inclusion in one or more subcategories with more specific terminology, and some of those may also remain listed in this umbrella category to account for potentially being part of wider spectrums of gender or romantic and sexual orientations. Please also see Category:Individuals by pronouns and Wookieepedia:WookieeProject Pride/Project Scope for additional. Nonetheless, the overall Star Wars saga still has a long and proud history of fans in the LGBTQ+ community latching onto certain characters and stanning them for years to come.

In , Star Wars has said it would celebrate Pride month by letting gay and trans artists “pay homage to some of the LGBT+ characters inhabiting a galaxy far, far away” in a special line of comic book covers. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Introduced in the Knights of the Old Republic video game, Juhani made waves by being the first gay character to appear in Star Wars.

Vel Sartha, played by Faye Marsay who is maybe best known as that girl who smacked Arya Stark with a stick for like two seasons straight on Game of Throne s, was a poncho-sporting, no-nonsense backwoods resistance fighter who seemed to maybe be a little more than friendly with a woman who was also one of her fellow comrades in arms. Vel is queer. She is in fact sleeping with fellow rebellion fighter Cinta Kaz played by Varada Sethu.

Given the high stakes and often action-packed plots of Andor , showrunner Tony Gilroy had more than one opportunity to bury some gays. However, with each passing episode, it became clear that Andor deserved our attention and confidence and that at the very least it was a significant step forward for a gayer galaxy. Unlike its rival space series Star Trek , which was incorporating queer themes into its narratives as far back as the early 90s, Star Wars never seemed quite sure what to do with its queers.

Star Wars novels started to regularly feature queer characters. Gay freedom fighters. Lesbian Imperials. Bisexual bounty hunters. Quirky enby smugglers. The most notable queer addition to Star Wars canon was, and arguably still is, the comics anti-hero Doctor Aphra. Doctor Aphra is a chaotic lesbian archaeologist who frequently runs awry with galactic treasure hunters and the ghosts of long dead Sith Lords.

Think Indiana Jones if he was a queer Asian woman with a very questionable moral compass. A long-running antagonist was a vengeful space detective whose cyborg boyfriend Aphra left for dead after a particularly bad job. It was a move that was so transparently trivial and easy to remove for foreign censors that it immediately became a source of mockery and derision.

This is all to say that Andor simply having an on-screen queer couple whose role extends beyond a winking reference or quick cameo is already leaps and bounds ahead of anything that Lucasfilm has bothered to offer up to date. But Andor is a particularly rare beast.

Actually great, thoughtful , Star Wars. Sure, it sometimes excels at celebrating itself or even deconstructing its own myth, but Star Wars has been about Star Wars and only about Star Wars for years now. Whether it be depictions of the corporate stooges or ladder climbing bureaucrats, Andor revels in the banality of its evil and is unflinching in depicting the recognizable horrors of a government that believes itself too big to fail.

As much as Star Wars has always had a slight political edge to it, Andor is the first iteration of the series to make its anti-fascist underpinnings the front and center focus of its story. And thankfully this nuanced and surprisingly grounded approach extends to our space lesbians as well. While we first meet Vel and Cinta as backwoods revolutionaries, their relationship is defined by their fight against fascism.

Cinta, whose family was murdered by Stormtroopers prior to the start of the series, is clearly the more driven of the two. It naturally becomes a point of contention between both women. Vel in contrast hails from the aristocratic and socially conservative world of Chandrila. The knowing glances shared between cousins let us know that Mon is well-aware of the real reason why Vel has yet to find a man, but the point has already been made.

Vel is living another double life. Andor may be the rare Star Wars media that actually acknowledges that sex exists, but its hook ups and love makings always happen just off screen. If anything, it may just be a sad symptom of just how sexless so much franchise media has become over the last decade or so. This is a Disney production after all.