LGBT ‘Star Wars’ Characters: A Brief History. J.J. Abrams says LGBT characters are coming to “Star Wars,” but they’re already here. Get used to it. Phil Owen. March 10, 2016 @ 4:23 PM.

"Star Wars: The Acolyte" creator Leslye Headland recently pushed back on Star Wars fans who are angry that there are LGBTQ elements to her new series.

Director J.J. Abrams is in the midst of doing press for the upcoming “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” and naturally, questions have arisen about the close relationship between Resistance ...

Star Wars is defending the franchise’s inclusion of LGBTQ characters. The official Twitter account responded to a complaint about queer characters being in the universe, writing that “queer ...

As the concluding chapter in the nine-film, 42-year-old Skywalker saga, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” was always destined to make cinema history at just about the biggest scale imaginable ...

Star Wars has a vast galaxy of LGBTQ+ characters, and it's time the shows and movies show more of them. ... 22 Great Recent LGBTQ Movie And TV Characters Played By Queer Actors.

Star Wars video games have existed since the '80s, but it wasn't until the early 2000s that Star Wars would see its first LGBTQ+ character in both video game form and for the franchise as a whole.

Discovering a new dimension: The exploration of Luke Skywalker's LGBTQ identity in the Star Wars Universe (Image via Lucasfilm) Disney's Star Wars franchise has been making changes to George Lucas ...

The show’s LGBTQ reputation has preceded itself, generating a now-viral moment where a journalist from The Wrap told Headland and non-binary series star Amandla Stenberg during an interview that ...

The showrunner behind the newest Star Wars show on Disney+ admitted that she was "into" rumors that fans deemed the show the "gayest Star Wars ever." ... Stenberg, who identifies as LGBTQ, ...

A lot has changed in the last few years when it comes to LGBT “Star Wars” characters. Now we’ve got Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker himself, floating the possibility that Luke is gay.