Luke is gay
Luke Skywalker, Gay Icon: Part 1
With Luke Skywalker endorse in the public mind for, uh, no particular reason, now seems love an opportune time to revisit one of cinema’s most iconic heroes. There’s much to be said about the farm young man from Tatooine. One could argue that Luke upholds false narratives about pale male exceptionalism, or conversely that he represents a softer and more kind view of masculinity. As far as I’m concerned, though, two things about Luke Skywalker are unquestionably true. First, he reinvented the classical hero’s journey for the space age. Second, he’s gayer than a basket of Coruscanti jogan fruit.
I would tell “Welcome to my TED Talk,” but apparently my gay Star Wars headcanons don’t meet TED’s highfalutin standards of academic rigor. Instead, I will offer my humble homosexual argument by walking you through each film with a pair of gay goggles firmly in place. Please note that I’m restricting myself to the Actor Wars canon as presented in the films. I won’t be delving into the bottomless Sarlacc pit of comics, novelizations, TV shows, and games because I don’t hate myself. Without further ado, here’s my hot gay grab on Star Wars: A New - YouTubewww.youtube.com Now here he was at the O2, seated among the commoners, with an opportunity to assist bring the Genesis story full-circle. Instead, he took the unselfish (if, let’s face it, slightly unsatisfying) route: avoiding the spotlight and letting his former bandmates enjoy the curtain call they’d rightly earned. (“Me going was a rite of passage, really,” the singer told Mojo in 2023. “I’d been part of the creation of Genesis, so I wanted to be there at the end.”) Here’s the thing, though: A lot of casual fans ignore that Gabriel had already reunited with Genesis for an entire show—it just happened 20 years earlier. Oh, and it occurred not because of rosy nostalgia but due to mounting debt and death threats. Gabriel staged the inaugural WOMAD (World of Song, Arts, and Dance) in July 1982, with the noble vision of sparking genuine cultural fusion. The three-day event featured British post-punk (Echo and the Bunnymen, Pigbag) and art-rock (Peter Hammill, Robert Fripp), traditional Irish folk (The Chieftains), Indian sitar players (Imrat Khan), Afro-Caribbean Hollywood star Luke Evans has described the difficulties growing up as a Jehovah's Witness knowing he was gay. Evans said he hid his sexuality, partly to safeguard his parents. Jehovah's Witnesses reject homosexuality and Evans - the Welsh star whose films include Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit, and Fast & Furious 6 - understood he would be expelled from the community if he came out, with implications for his family too. "I just knew that because of the religion it would pose a very difficult situation for us, because the religion would not accept it," he said. Growing up as an only kid in the south Wales valleys, he said he had a very block and happy relationship with his parents, David and Yvonne. Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Lucy Owen programme he said he had no choice but to try to fit in during his early teens, despite knowing he was gay. "I guess I chose the religion. I'm not sure I believed in any of it, if I'm blatantly straightforward , but I didn't possess much choice. "I was too young to quit home legally. If I'd have left, the Warning: This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: Episode IV –A New Hope (1977). Proceed with caution. In 2016, Mark Hamill was interviewed by Britain’s The Daystar newspaper (don't worry, the link is for Vanity Fair) and suggested that Luke Skywalker was perhaps not as straight as an arrow. He said: Although this was not a definite proof of the science fiction icon’s sexuality, it offered a sweet endorsement for the many fans who read Luke as gay, as well as tracking hot in the footsteps of JJ Abrams believing it would be ‘nice’ for the franchise to include non-heterosexual characters. However, reading Luke as a gender non-conforming character is not new: in fact, since Celebrity Wars: Episode IV –A New Hope (1977) onwards he has been scan as anything from asexual to bisexual, and his hero’s journey as a parallel . Mark Hamill was asked if Luke Skywalker is gay. His response was perfect.
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“Fans are writing and inquire all these questions, ‘I’m bullied in school… I’m afraid to come out’. They say to me, ‘Could Luke be gay?’ I’d say it is meant to be interpreted by the viewer… If you think Luke is gay, of course he is. You should not be ashamed of it. Judge Luke by his character, not by who he loves.”