STAR WARS Is Introducing Its First LGBT Character into Canon
The Star Wars universe is full of all kinds of great characters with different backgrounds, and they come in all kinds of different shapes, sizes, and colors. Well, it is about to get even more diverse with the inclusion of a character named Moff Mors, who is the very first LGBT character to be introduced into the official canon.
The character will make her debut in the upcoming novel Star Wars: Lords of the Sith, which was written by Paul S. Kemp. The news was first reported by Big Shiny Robot, and they describe the character as follows:
"Moff Mors is an Imperial who has made some very serious mistakes but she is an incredibly capable leader and spends much of the book working hard to prevent absolute failure. She also happens to be a lesbian."
Del Rey Star Wars editor Shelly Shapiro had this to say about the character:
"It’s not something I really think about, it just makes sense. There’s a lot of diversity – there should be diversity in Star Wars. You have all these different species and it would be silly to not also recognize that there’s a lot of diversity in humans. If there’s any message at all, it’s simply that Star Wars is as diverse (or more so because they have alien species) as humanity is in real life and we don’t want to pretend it’s not. It just felt perfectly natural."
Shapiro also points out that Moff Mors is not the first LGBT character in Star Wars, but explains that “This is certainly the first character in canon." There was a gay Mandalorian couple who appeared in several of the Legacy of the Force novels (their names were Goran Bevlin and Madrit Vasur). There was also a lesbian character in the video game Knights of the Old Republic, and same-sex relationships are allowed in the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The new book hits shelves April 28th.
Via: ComicBook.com