Characters That Are Actually LGBT
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Q: Hello! I was hoping you will promote our tumblr. We are students at the UC Riverside and the purpose of our tumblr is to share happy moments that queers have had to help empower, educate, and encourage individuals. We would love if your followers would follow us and submit their own happy stories!
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Sure! Go check out Happyhomos, everyone! :)
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Apologies if irrelevant posts show up here; Tumblr keeps glitching and sending reblogs from my personal blog here by mistake.
Also I haven’t forgotten about this blog! I’ve just been busy and you should feel free to submit in the mean time.
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Character: Juhani
Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Voiced By: Courtenay Taylor
Role: Party Member, Romance Option
Orientation: Lesbian
Juhani the alien cat person Jedi was, far as I know, the first gay character in a Bioware game. Sort of. The character was cut at one point and readded late in development, so it’s kind of buggy and underdeveloped. When KOTOR first came out, there was even a glitch that let male characters romance her too, but this was corrected. She was definitely the first gay character in Star Wars.
On a side note, Bioware’s The Old Republic MMO originally contained no gay characters. For a time, any discussion of gay characters was shut down because “these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.”. Gay, homosexual and lesbian were even censored. Of course Juhani from Bioware’s own game disproves the idea that homosexuality doesn’t exist in the Star Wars universe. Later, when Bioware announced the addition of gay relationships, it provoked protest from the Family Research Council that Star Wars had “gone to the dark side” because of course the FRC would say something like that.
UPDATE
Star Wars: The Old Republic will now have same-sex relationships
Except (warning: article uses cissexist language, shows heterosexist posts on Bioware’s forum) all the gay characters are locked away on one planet and you have to pay to go there. And it’s for high-level players only. Really.
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Character: Ellen Morgan
Show: Ellen
Played By: Ellen DeGeneres
Role: Lead
Orientation: Lesbian
Ellen didn’t begin as a show about a lesbian character; it just followed Ellen DeGeneres as bookstore owner Ellen Morgan. During its fourth season, DeGeneres came out as a lesbian. So did her character, in the fourth season finale - the Emmy-winning episode codenamed “The Puppy Episode”, which guest starred Laura Dern and Oprah Winfrey, among others.
…then came the fifth season, which ABC aired with a parental advisory warning before every episode. Yes, really. After a flurry of criticism that Ellen was “too gay” for bringing up her being a lesbian, the show was cancelled after its fifth season, a decision that didn’t hurt Ellen DeGeneres one bit, as her enduring fame as a talk show host and voice of the best Pixar character shows. Neither did it hurt gay characters on TV; by the time Ellen was cancelled, Will & Grace - with openly gay lead characters - had already begun.
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As a queer person, you have the right to:
- Create/demand more queer characters in media
- Critique present portrayals of queer characters
- Critique the manner in which a writer handles queer characters, whether the writer is queer or not
- Feel alienated by a queer character if you feel that they are problematic
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Characters: Madame Vastra and Jenny
Show: Doctor Who
Created by: Steven Moffat
Played By: Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart
Role: Recurring
Orientation: Lesbian
Vastra is a Silurian, a ancient reptilian race that lives underneath the Earth. Jenny is a human. They are a couple and they fight with swords. Also, Vastra ate Jack the Ripper. They need their own show already.
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Q: The characters Zevran Arainai and Leliana from the game Dragon Age: Origins are both bisexual AND romanceable by the player. Leliana even has a small DLC Campaing entirely devoted to her story, so these two should be really interesting I think. :3
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Oh hey, I’ve played DA:O and I should write something about them. Unless someone wants to submit something.
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Character: Angela Montenegro
Show: Bones
Created By: Hart Hanson
Played By: Michaela Conlin
Role: A specialist in forensic facial reconstruction at the Jeffersonian Institute, frequently working with Dr. Temperance Brennan, who is her best friend
Orientation: Bisexual
Angela is bisexual. In episode 8 of Season 4 it is revealed about eight years prior she was in a long-term relationship with a woman named Roxie (previously described in Season 3 as someone “whose heart [Angela] broke in art school”) who happens to be this episode’s main suspect. Angela and Roxie share a passionate kiss at the end after it is proven Roxie was innocent. The two resume their relationship for a while, but Roxie breaks up with her – explaining she wants someone who thinks of the future instead of always living in the moment.
