Sinjir Rath Velus is the first major hero in a Star Wars story to be gayĪuthor Chuck Wendig introduced the first gay main character into the Star Wars universe in the Imperial turncoat Sinjir Rath Velus. She spends most of the novel “working hard to prevent absolute failure”. She wasn’t a major character in the novel, but Big Shiny Robot described her as a woman who “has made some very serious mistakes” but is an “incredibly capable leader”. Mors is an Imperial (a “bad” guy), and she had a wife, Murra, who was killed in an accident.
If you need a rough timetable, the book is set after the Revenge of the Sith movie but before the Rebels TV series. Mors, who is a human female, served as a Moff – a rank held by Sector Governors of the First Galactic Empire – in the years after the end of the Clone Wars. The first canonically LGBT+ character was a lesbianĭelian Mors became the first LGBT+ character in the official Star Wars canon when she was introduced in Paul S Kemp’s 2015 novel Lords of the Sith. So now it is time for PinkNews to highlight some of the queer characters across the Star Wars universe that even some of the most hardcore fans may have never heard of. This year 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. Within the expanded universe, Star Wars has highlighted characters of various sexualities and gender identities, creating new opportunities for LGBT+ fans to see themselves represented within the series. There are Star Wars novels, comic books, video games and TV series that discuss the expanded universe at length. Star Wars has expanded to more than just movies.
The road to more meaningful LGBT+ representation has been a long one for Star Wars, but in recent years, the hit sci-fi series has upped its game.
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