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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I haven't watched Visions season 3 yet for characters, but there's several LGBTQIA+ voices, a mix of returning and new-to-Star-Wars: George Takei, Harvey Guillén, James Sie, Major Attaway, Maximilian Reid, and Stephanie Hsu. (May be others I didn't catch when reviewing cast lists?) MTFBWY, queerly!

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hello, everyone! Long time no post because this year, I've been preoccupied with what's happening in queer reality, and there's also been a steep decline in Star Wars queers. I haven't gotten the latest books yet to see if they add any, but even if they do, we've gone back to pre-2019 levels.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

16-year-old Silinese Rhos is genderfluid. Sitia says "little brother" when he's wearing silver, "little sister" when she's wearing gold. He's euphoric when Jecki recognizes and acknowledges his gender shifted. To avoid spoilers, I won't describe Rhos/Lio's romance trajectory. Buy/check it out! 5/5

Text from chapter 9 of "Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown" by Tessa Gratton @tessagratton.bsky.social‬:

Jecki grinned and added, “A little too fast to fully appreciate, though.”

Sitia laughed. “You’ll get to see me plenty.” She pulled Rhos around from behind her. “You remember my little sister Rhos?”

Jecki blinked, and Yord frowned, but they both recovered swiftly. Jecki said, “Of course we do. You fought well, too, Rhos. It was interesting watching your technique especially, as a fellow short person.”

Rhos smiled bashfully, the same expression she’d worn when given compliments last night. Everything about her seemed the same, and Jecki wondered how Sitia knew about the gender shift. Was there a pattern to something Rhos did with her wardrobe or hair or something? Rhos’s jumpsuit matched Sitia’s, even being black and purple. Her ears were studded with gold today instead of silver. Maybe that was it. Or maybe it was an ephemeral sibling thing. Or maybe, Jecki thought, slightly amused at herself, Sitia simply asked.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Lio is 18, from the (in)famous Graf clan, is human but born on Siline, not Silinese in species but is in culture. They get multiple viewpoint chapters, including a paragraph discussing how shaving their own head and having no body hair is important to their gender and personhood. 4/5

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Arthyst siblings—Rhos and Sitia—share their mother's violet coloration in their skin, crystals, and filament hair. Sitia is a young woman who wears a binder during the survival competition and endlessly flirts at Yord while respecting his "please don't" when she wants to kiss him. 3/5

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Rap is a minor character, but this Silinese person is one of "two people with indiscernible gender traits" and "one of the gender-ambiguous Silinese" from Jecki Lon's POV when meeting them and others on the War Council. 2/5

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown" by Tessa Gratton @tessagratton.bsky.social has a Star Wars first: a nonbinary/nonbinary romance between Lionine "Lio" Graf (they/them) and Rhos Arthyst (he/him, she/her). Another NB character is Rap Arcon (they/them). GET THIS BOOK NOW. 1/5

Cover art by J.D. Paulsen (credited as Julian Paulsen) for "Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown". The artwork depicts Jecki Lon with her green-bladed lightsaber and Yord Fandar with his yellow-bladed lightsaber. The characters described in this thread are not in this image.

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Dork Side of the Force @dorksideoftheforce.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Queer people have existed since the beginning of time and has always been part of Star Wars. For Pride Month, here is our list of Star Wars podcasts, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers with one LGBTQIA+ person. Happy Pride! dorksideoftheforce.com/2023/06/07/u...

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LGBTQIA+ Star Wars podcasts by and for queer fans

June is Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of 1969, which are considered one of the major catalysts for kicking off the gay rights movement not just

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Jessica Mumford @jessicamumford.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

in the UK so got the Acolyte Visual Guide early. Unironically great touch of @infinata.bsky.social to make the trans woman the one who helps with the rest of the coven's fashion.

from the Acolyte Visual Guide's entry on Ensign Eurus (played by Abigail Thorn):
"To assist the gestural channelling of the Thread, Ensign Eurus is the coven's ornamentalist, creating fobs, jewellery and other talismans. A trusted advisor to Aniseya, she respect's her leader's wisdom, although disagrees with allowing the Jedi's scrutiny."
Labelled on Eurus' picture are "Segmented plastron necklace" and "reinforcing welt cord"

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The book also has profiles for background characters: - Sage Kinzem, they/them, investigator and new Jedi Knight - Umbaran wives Asala Suro and Cosa Simo, seen in Olega City - Bihun and Basko's species is interesting not-really-genders-wise; text in alt (TY again, @jessicamumford.bsky.social)!

Two aliens in plated armor have five bumps around their heads, greenish skin, widely-spaced eyes, and no nostrils. Under the text heading "BIHUN AND BASKO" is this paragraph:
"Wrosidians are semi-plant-based life-forms that start life as buds on a singular stalk. This reproduction method has led Wrosidian culture to have no direct equivalents of familial or gender identities when compared to most other galactic communities. Bihun (left) and Basko (right) are "relatives" from the same stalk but are not exactly siblings."

Labels point to parts of the image:
- "Crown of sensitive atmospheric filter organs"
- "Basko has a friendly visage"
- "Corrugated bellow-plates aid with breathing"

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"As the more tempestuous of the handfasted couple, Mother Koril exhibits a more impulsive streak than her wife, Aniseya." I LOVE this! IRL, LGBTQ+ couples have often used handfasting to pledge love and commitment, whether in lieu of or for lack of access to legal marital status.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

US release tomorrow of Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Visual Guide by @infinata.bsky.social, and thanks to @jessicamumford.bsky.social, I learned that "The Mothers" spread clarifies Aniseya and Koril's relationship status-- we already knew they're a couple, but now we know they're wives!

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Soujen Vak-Nhalis remembers his "eldest father" and there are multiple mentions of "his fathers" without specifying how many were in his family. Those are separate from "his forefathers in clans dead for a century" and "the elders of his clan". Not totally clear if it's a single-gender society. 3/3

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Incidental characters: - NB unnamed Arcona who meets with Bail Organa. - F/F married couple Erinya and Jayu have few traits; they're there to fill out a group roster. 2/3

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Star Wars: The Mask of Fear by Alexander Freed introduces non-binary point-of-view character Chemish Runazha, who I won't say much about to avoid spoiling their specifics. They're human, Imperial, with "browned skin", "bright-green eyes", "runner's shoulders concealed beneath the gaudy jacket". 1/3

Cover of "Star Wars: The Mask of Fear", artwork by Marko Manev, written by Alexander Freed and the first of book of "Reign of the Empire". Mon Mothma is a tiny figure in white, lit from above by a spotlight, and surrounded by the nearly-black chamber of the Galactic Senate.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

They show up a few more times but aren't significant. Vernestra Rwoh's aroaceness isn't addressed at all. The only sexuality in this book is sexual harassment, in one scene men towards another man; a group of Twi'lek men is shouting at a human man working as a dancing boy. 2/2

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker by @justinaireland.com has a new, incidental non-binary character: "Master Niko Jiro, a slim human with pale skin and a halo of wild, dark curls, was the only other Jedi High Council Member in attendance. They gave Indara a kind smile of encouragement." 1/2

The cover of the book "Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker" written by Justina Ireland; the artwork is by Tomasz Majewski. Two Jedi with the likenesses of the actresses who portrayed them in the TV series The Acolyte: Vernestra Rwoh (Rebecca Henderson but bald and green) poses with her purple lightsaber in front of Indara (a younger Carrie-Anne Moss) with a green lightsaber.

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Batuu Pride @batuupride.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

FINALLY! A NEW 2025 LOGO for Batuu Pride designed by @707odyssey.bsky.social ⁣ Get shirts, pins, stickers and more NOW at our Threadless store!⁣ 100% of proceeds go to @transequality.bsky.social! batuupride.threadless.com ⁣ ⁣ #BatuuPride2025 #NewRebels⁣

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Batuu Pride @batuupride.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

New logo. New merch. New mission. We are the New Rebels. It’s not just a one-day meetup anymore — it’s a year-round movement for queer Star Wars to celebrate, connect, and fight for a better galaxy. 𝘉𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. #𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘂𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 #𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘀 #𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘂𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 #𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘂𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁

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Paulina Ganucheau @paulinaganucheau.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Kantam Sy✨

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Staring into the camera. Some people insisted Mother Koril and Aniseya weren't a couple and interpreted Leslye Headland's The Hollywood Reporter answer as "they are NOT queer/if you think they are, you're wrong" instead of her response to viewers seeing (esp. HATING) 'lesbian space witches'.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I appreciate this collection of the covers and reflection on them-- and it was first I'd seen of them, when I went searching to find out if we were even getting Pride covers this year. Did I miss something or was there no announcement this year and instead we're learning via June solicits?

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Luciano Vecchio @lucianovecchio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Star Wars #2 Pride Variant Cover featuring Sana Starros.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The newest Star Wars: The High Republic book is Into the Light by Claudia Gray, with gorgeous cover art by @coreybrickley.bsky.social (see textless: www.instagram.com/p/DBfMuS9RseH) Several LGBTQIA+ characters reappear but that aspect never comes up in this story and there aren't any new ones.

Art by Corey Brickley (@coreybrickley.bsky.social)
A young, brown-haired man-- probably Jedi Knight Reath Silas-- is wearing a gold-accented cloak and tunic, white pants, and brown boots. He's in the middle of thick, vine-covered roots and there's some kind of scattered technological debris. He holds his ignited green lightsaber in both hands as he looks warily at his surroundings, which are lit up green by his lightsaber where they aren't lighted by sunlight breaking through.

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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

R2-BNE action figure 🐰🏳️‍⚧️

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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

KB’s moms Maree and Garree on a new Topps card for SKELETON CREW

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎵 It's the circle of gaaaay 🎵 No wait 🎶 It's the cirrrrcle of wiiiife! 🎶

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

And then February 2021, Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures #1, @djolder.bsky.social and Harvey Tolibao, introduced Lula Talisola and Zeen Mrala, and their stories were woven together from the very start 🥹

Two girls face the viewer, each in one panel. On the left is Lula, a Black teenage girl, whose thoughts in a blue box are "... We have no choice!" Someone off-panel says: "And Padawans... may the Force be with you!" In the right panel, Zeen is a teenage alien girl with pink skin and purple tendrils instead of hair, and a blond boy behind her points up and says, "Look!"

Lula is dressed in brown Jedi garb with other Jedi behind her, using lightsabers to block red blaster bolts. Zeen watches them in awe, with her thoughts in pink boxes. Seeing the Jedi using the Force to help people makes her question if she can be like them.

Zeen and Lula are in two panels facing the viewer. They are having the same thoughts, conveyed by using a pink-to-blue gradient in boxes containing those thoughts: as they sense destruction, the power of the Force rises in them, and they rise with it. Lula and two other Jedi continue use lightsabers while Zeen lifts her hands towards the sky.

Zeen's pink hand reaches upward towards gravel and stones; she says: "Can't... hold it..." Next to hers, Lula's brown hand rises as she says, "Hold on!" Zeen is stunned as she looks at Lula, who smiles and says, "We got you."

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

But then: @chuckwendig.bsky.social's Aftermath! - Esmelle and Shirene, wives and GOOD people! - Incidental mention: Iggs had two fathers - Sinjir Rath Velus, aforementioned DISASTER gay, thoroughly developed before he meets and falls in love with Conder Kyl in 2016's Aftermath: Life Debt

Sinjir Rath Velus, another disaster, is a gay man with wavy brown hair, a trimmed mustache, and scruffy beard. He flings cards across a table while his other hand rests on a blaster. Illustrated by Javier Garrón @javiergarron.bsky.social on Jango Fett #4, Pride variant cover.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Post-continuity split, here comes another making-a-big-deal "first!" in 2015 with Paul S. Kemp's Lords of the Sith having Imperial Moff Delian Mors, who enslaves Twi'lek women as household decorations, as the widow of wife Murra.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

But The Last of the Jedi author Jude Watson (pseudonym of Judy Blundell) wrote Ferus and Roan as in love and married. It wasn't explicitly stated on page, though. Incomplete article, but for more: swficreference.fandom.com/wiki/Ferus_O...

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Ferus Olin and Roan Lands

Ferus Olin and Roan Lands are LGBTQIA+ characters and a couple in the Star Wars young reader (age 9–12) novel series The Last of the Jedi, written by Judy Blundell under her pseudonym Jude Watson and ...

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Ferus Olin and Roan Lands actually beat the "gay Mandos" to it, subtextually. Repeatedly called partners!... who have the agency Roan/Lands for awhile. (Life AND business partners comes up again with Flix and Orka. Sigh.) Emotional and physical intimacy! ... Use the word "brother" in death scene?!

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

As for Star Wars: Mandalorians Goran Beviin and Medrit Vasur never speak of love or show physical intimacy in creator Karen Traviss's writing, are plainly stated to be partners (in a story that also uses that word for teammates), but then husbands in a 2008 reference book. Tada: gay rep 🏳️‍🌈

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

X-Men's Destiny (Irene Adler) and Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) went from decades of CCA-mandated queer-coding to actual queer (years after Destiny's on-page death) to post-resurrection vow renewal in 2023 Pride wedding special, with meta commentary like: diversity win! sapphic terrorists are married!

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The romance of Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) and Teddy Altman (Hulking) of the Young Avengers has things in common with Zeen and Lula! Teenagers meet, fall in love, and go THROUGH IT before marrying, with readers along the whole way. ... TBH haven't read their whole story so I can't comment much!

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In 2013, DC announced the recent engagement of Kate Kane (Batwoman) and her partner Maggie Sawyer would NOT lead to marriage, because Bat family editorial policy was NO GOOD THINGS. The creative team quit. (Like many people, I promptly unsubscribed from everything DC and never went back.)

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Post-CCA, Marvel made noise about their first gay wedding: Jean-Paul Beaubier (whose 1992 coming out was a big deal) and Kyle Jinadu (exists to be Jean-Paul's SO) in 2012's Astonishing X-Men #51, written by Marjorie Liu. Posters, advertisements, etc. for the wedding of a superhero and Some Guy.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

How'd we get here? Prior same-sex engagements/marriages in comics: Apollo and Midnighter's was in the final issue of the cancelled The Authority from DC's WildStorm imprint, not a "mainstream comic" under Comics Code Authority (CCA). In 2002, only Massachusetts had same-sex marriage in USA.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

(No joke, I loved the time @djolder.bsky.social didn't realize Sinjir Rath Velus and Conder Kyl weren't previously married when he wrote them as husbands in Last Shot. Sinjir is an absolute disaster gay so it's fitting that he got married without anyone in publishing knowing first.)

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It's WEDDING SPECTACULAR day for Lula and Zeen in a Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures special, by Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social & Harvey Tolibao! This is a big Star Wars first! Other queer couples married off-page/screen in-between stories.🧵

Ella Poworoznik @cherriielle.bsky.social cover for THE WEDDING SPECTACULAR special issue of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. Lula Talisola, a young Black human woman with her hair in bantu knots, smiles at Zeen Mrala, a young alien woman with pink skin and tendrils instead of hair. Lula wears a white and blue wedding gown and Zeen wears blue and teal; they both have matching silver bracelets. Confetti falls around them.

Pris Bampoh @bampshi.bsky.social cover for THE WEDDING SPECTACULAR special issue of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. Lula Talisola, a young Black human woman with her hair in bantu knots, embraces and touches foreheads with Zeen Mrala, a young alien woman with pink skin and tendrils instead of hair. Lula wears a white and blue wedding gown and Zeen wears blue and teal. Everything is warm-toned and they're surrounded by purple and pink flowers.

Akinobu Hara/5health cover for THE WEDDING SPECTACULAR special issue of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. Zeen Mrala, a young alien woman with pink skin and tendrils instead of hair, smiles widely and touches foreheads with Lula Talisola, a young Black human woman who stands behind her and holds her hand. Zeen wears a blue and teal wedding gown and Lula wears white and blue; they both have matching silver bracelets. Flower petals and floral arches frame them.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Whoops, typo on KB's moms: that's MAREE no L, not as in Marlee Matlin. (At least I got Garree right?)

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@kixnstyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @kixnstyx.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"i love it when star wars is red" blah blah blah. i love it when star wars is QUEER FAMILIES 🥰🥰🥰 #SkeletonCrew

Aniseya and Koril from star wars the acolyte. Aniseya is a tall, slender Black woman with long ornate multicolored braids and a white spiral tattoo on her forehead. Koril is a white woman Zabrak with horns and ink black tattoos on her face, and long red hair. They both wear purple and blue robes.

KB's mothers Garree and Maree from Skeleton Crew. Two women with dark hair wearing brown shirts and jackets, seated on a couch, their faces concerned at KB's disappearance.

Shirene and Esmelle from Star Wars Outlaws. A Black woman with short black hair wearing a green shirt and leather jacket, and a white woman with shoulder length silver hair wearing a green shirt and dark blue jacket.

Ceeli and Kryys Durango, Nash Durango's two mothers, from Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures. Ceeli has dark hair and tan skin and Kryys is white with ginger hair.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In this week's Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, KB (Kyriana Kratter) has two moms, Marlee (Cass Buggé) and Garree (M.J. Kang) (I gotta rewatch to sort out who's who!) "What worries me is that we lost the signal to KB's life monitor." "Our daughter has very urgent medical needs!" #SkeletonCrewSpoilers

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Less 2 weeks til Lula & Zeen's big day in The High Republic Adventures: The Wedding Spectacular, by Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social & Harvey Tolibao. I never do multiple copies but I'm getting main cover by @cherriielle.bsky.social and variants by @bampshi.bsky.social & Akinobu Hara/5health.

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just a heads up that I haven't forgotten to skeet about new releases. Life Happens! I'll update on comics, scour credits of Skeleton Crew in case, but I'll need friends and others sharing specifics for Outlaws DLC and Tempest Breaker. Feedback wanted: what to use as spoiler tags for mutes?

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ruu (trans man) and Crash Ongwa (sapphic woman) featured on the cover, with Crash's girlfriend Svi'no Atchapat inside, AND written by Alyssa your-favorite-they/them-femme Wong with art by Valeria "Lux" Favoccia (they/them)! (Is this @luxfero.bsky.social's Star Wars debut?)

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Daily Kelly Marie Tran @dailykelly.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Kelly Marie Tran: "I haven't said this publicly yet, but I'm a queer person. […] I don't feel like I'm acting at all in this movie. […] I've never been in a queer space before. I've never truly felt this accepted before." 🔗: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Vanity Fair piece:

The clock hasn't even struck noon, for instance, when an emotional Kelly Marie Tran decides to share a personal detail on the record for the first time. "I haven't said this publicly yet, but I'm a queer person," she tells me. "The thing that really excited me about it was I got to play a person that I felt like I knew. I don't feel like I'm acting at all in this movie.... I'm here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people. I've never been in a queer space before. I've never truly felt this accepted before."

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Star Wars Queeries @starwarsqueeries.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So, the short story where Luke's queer is set pre-TESB like some in FACPOV:TESB, but it's "Luke on the Bright Side" by @sammaggs.bsky.social in Stories of Jedi and Sith. What I mean is that The Battle of Jakku comics and other stories haven't touched on it. swficreference.fandom.com/wiki/Luke_Sk...

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Luke Skywalker and Reyé Hollis

Luke Skywalker and Reyé Hollis are canonically LGBTQIA+ Star Wars characters in "Luke on the Bright Side", a short story from the 2022 anthology Stories of Jedi and Sith, which was written by Sam Magg...

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