A flawless—as in without flaw—essay on why these things keep, keep, keep happening. Thank you Chuck Wendig.
Always reblog Wendig.
Star Wars, to quote the guy who emailed me, does bring people from diverse cultures and backgrounds together. And everybody of those cultures and backgrounds deserve to be seen on the screen and on the page and in comic book panels. This isn’t a joke. This isn’t glib. This is their lives. Not everybody is you. And as I said before, if you can imagine a Star Wars where Luke Skywalker hates gay people, I got bad news for you, hoss: you watched a different Star Wars than I did. You fell to the Dark Side. You joined the Empire. And I hope one day that Big Gay Luke Skywalker shows up at your battlestation door and he shines his rainbow gaysaber at you and you can do nothing but melt beneath its warm rays of inclusiveness and kindness and you come to realize that love is good and gay people exist and dang, were you a huge asshole.
Chuck Wendig, author of the upcoming TFA comic book adaptation and the novel Star Wars: Aftermath, replying to (yet another) email complaining about the gay people in his Star Wars book (http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2016/03/09/episode-0-luke-skywaker-and-the-return-of-the-rainbow-gaysaber/)