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Chewbacca: Not Gay

Apr 30, 2009
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"As I have stated before, these are terms [gay, lesbian, homosexual] that do not exist in Star Wars. Thread closed."

George Lucas and his companies are well-known for the lengths to which they'll go in pursuit of those who would sully the Star Wars canon, which long ago devolved from fun pulp-art to a Disneyfied vehicle for selling action figures and other branded merchandise to six-year-olds, so, without knowing much about the cause, I'll assume that the Lucas entities are the reason Bioware won't allow fans of its upcoming Star Wars massive multiplayer game even to mention these verboten concepts.

And perhaps they have a point:  As we're often told, in non-Star Wars contexts, equal rights for gays and lesbians can only lead us further down a certain slippery slope.

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  1. Ron  •  Apr 30, 2009 @12:42 pm

    You've got to check out this Penny Arcade comic:

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/29/

  2. Ken  •  Apr 30, 2009 @1:19 pm

    This was such a hilariously bad P.R. move. Moments like that keep people like me in business.

  3. Al  •  Apr 30, 2009 @1:22 pm

    The discussion in the podcast is interesting as well. They bring up that people would have made up the term for Jabba's uncle alone.

  4. KainTheGreat  •  Apr 30, 2009 @1:26 pm

    I find it funny that there is a well known Star Wars lesbian character… from a Bioware game no less.

  5. Scott Jacobs  •  Apr 30, 2009 @6:20 pm

    I think the mod was trying to say that "gay and straight are not labels that are applied in the SW universe because they have no meaning. when different species can marry and mate, what issue would there be for two of the same gender?" but said it stupid.