Star Wars Will Get Openly Gay Character, JJ Abrams Says

Is that supposed to make the film more appealing or something? Abrams is going to break his wrist with all that back patting. Maybe I'm just an old fashioned prude or something but I'm really, really ,really not interested in anyone's sexual lusts.

I want to watch a sci-fi movie to be entertained, not to sit down for a sermon on 'diversity' and if this next film is the latter rather than the former, it won't see a single penny from me.

The misconception that the whole world is okay with homosexuals is common, those living in Hollywood (and their own little world) think if they make it seem 'normal' everyone will celebrate and be... gay. I don't care what you do in your private life, but I can't remember going up to someone and saying or implicating that I was not gay, so why do gays think they have to advertise the lifestyle? Do they make movies and say... this character will Not be gay? Yet it must be pointed out, labeled and advertised if gay... just in case you either hate them, love them or are one, so everyone can have an opinion, everyone can weigh in and create drama instead of just treating them as you do everyone else, as a human. This is the world we live in... you are white, black, gay, straight, hispanic, man, women, rich, poor... all labels created to divide us, to enable hate to take root, someone to blame, someone to scapegoat... someone to use as a tool when needed to gain votes. When we wakeup and realize that we get played by the gov't who uses the media to manipulate the masses it's then we can learn to live in peace, in harmony and not waking up everyday wondering which label to blame today, which group to hate for all your problems.

As long as they don't "force" it in the movie

Puting real world issues in fiction breaks the illusion, for star wars sake lets hope its a minor one

To all the angry, immature man-children, calm down and stop making a fool out of yourselves.

You really think the writers would be so stupid to linger on that aspect? If anything, it will subtly get mentioned and that will be that. Adding in a gay character will not change your beloved Star Wars, much in the same way that adding black people in film in the past didn't make film worse (I'm sure there were many who thought adding in blacks for the first time was "pandering").

You're making it a bigger deal than it has to be. But if you want to "boycott" this movie for something so small, by all means, feel free. This movie will still do fine without you =)

Most of the guys complaining wouldn't be if he had said it was going to be lesbian. Lets be honest, most of the time the guys that are bothered don't mind gays in media as long as they're hot females. See they're only half intolerant as long as they have something in it for their viewing pleasure (it's one of the reason why shows like orange is the new black are so popular guys wouldn't watch that show if the gays were mostly males).

Oh and never believed the statistics about how many homosexuals there are in the world and think people who do are in denial. Look at how many people especially men are closet homos and no seeing a guy with his girlfriend or wife does not mean that he isn't gay. Think about that before you believe that 1% bull.

As long as the character makes sense plot wise and they haven't just spliced homosexuality in there to tick a box then that is fine.

Before "The Force Awakens" all the bigots said they would boycott the movie because a main character was black. With all those people boycotting, it has managed to become the 3rd top grossing film in the World. Can't wait to see what happens once all the new round of bigots boycott. At least all the closet homosexuals, err I mean bigots, will have something to jerk off to when they buy it on bluray.

Well of course. Anybody that saw Episode VII could tell that Poe Dameron was as gay as the day is long. It's going to be a love triangle between Rae, FInn, and Poe and it's anybody's guess where the bottle stops to point.

It worked out well for Mass Effect. "I miss my husband" Puke.

Mass Effect did it.

I'm calling it, the character will be Captain Phasma.

Not that having gay characters is ANYTHING new to the Star Wars franchise. Anybody remember Juhani from KOTOR I?

Seriously, why is this a bad idea all of a sudden? Where was everyone when KOTOR I released?

Isn't C3P0 already the openly gay Star Wars character? He's a robot that acts like a den mother. And why is this news when gay characters have been in cinema since...forever now. I'm pretty sure there were gay actors in Shakespeare's plays so WTF people. Why does this matter? I thought Star Wars was about killing the baddies and saving the universe, not what sexual appetites a character might have. Hollywood, please kill the noise and cut the crap already..it's old news

This is only going to be an issue for bigots, meh non story to me.

New star wars is a joke.

Star Wars wants to be inclusive? Then they'll also need to add a character in a wheel chair, another who was born with a disability, a bisexual, a transgender FtM, a transgender MtF, two-spirited, pansexual, omnisexual...I'm sure I'm forgetting some. The point is that making up characters just for the sake of being able to publicly claim that your movie is inclusive, when it really isn't, is petty. True inclusiveness is a lot more work than just adding a single gay character...who will probably end up being a Caucasian guy, anyway.

Depends what you mean by "gay character"? If its the typical hollywood overly feminine overly dramatic stereotype than you can shove it up youre arse. If you want to promote homosexuality you can start by informing people that being gay doesnt mean youre an annoying over the top attention seeker. THATS what people find annoying.