There Are No Gays In Star Wars

By Luke Plunkett, 8:00 PM on Mon Apr 27 2009, 25,338 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)

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BioWare take their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers are shutting down talk on Old Republic's message boards about homosexuality, because it's a term that does "not exist in Star Wars".

Yes, if you care to trawl around the site, there are a few threads that either began as, or devolved into, discussion of how the game - or the game's future player base - would handle gay relationships. And those threads are now locked. A thread complaining about those threads being locked (along with the words "homosexual", "lesbian" and "gay" being censored on the boards) has now also been locked, with BioWare's community manager Sean Dahlberg posting succinctly:

As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.

Thread closed.

OK, but...they do, uh, realise that the people actually playing the game do not exist in Star Wars either, right? They're real people?

GLBT discrimination in forums? [SWTOR]

EDIT - http://kotaku.com/5230325/there-are-no-gays-in-star-wars

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Which is pretty funny. C-3PO is as effeminate and camp as you can get. Boba Fetts best mate and second in command, Goran Beviin, is in a Gay relationship throughout all of his appearances in the EU.

Now im not sure exactly whether they mean "There are no words to specify sexuality in Star Wars" or if they mean "There are NO GAYS in Star Wars" but either way its a little messed up.

I suppose i can kind of understand why they wouldn't want people discussing sexuality, it could end up causing alot of unnecessary strife in the game world when it's released, but i still think effectively suppressing it is just as wrong.