Were the LGBT+ couples accepted in the Star Wars society? Or there was discrimination? And what about the interespecies (?) relationships (like human/alien or two different kinds of aliens)?. And btw, what kind of alien were able have kids with humans?

cienie-isengardu:

padawanlost:

Sadly, Star
Wars has a serious representation issue so information is sparse. I’ve been
told Disney is trying to improve things but since this is a GL’s blog I’ll focus
on Legends, okay?

Czytaj dalej

I have the feeling that the accceptance (or lack of it) vary from one culture to another and depends a lot on the region in galaxy and era.

Like, Mandalorian warrior culture does not put much (if any) weight on gender roles and thus people born and raised in such society don’t have problems with other people’s sexuality and gender. Those who joined Mandalorians as an adults – with already
shaped concept of sex & gender by their experiences and culture – simply learn very fast that harassing other warrios is not an option. Mainly, because even mandalorian kids are capable of beating the crap of anyone and there are also clan memebers always ready to protect their own. I mean, in Mando society you are either naturally born/raised a tolerant person, or someone most likely will finally beat  – or kill – you for good and most warriors are gonna be okay with that solution. What matters is only what kind of person the Mandalorian is, not what is their gender or which whom they share bed.

It’s much difficult to tell for sure about Republic and Outer Rim territory and its laws or
attitude to

LGBT+ groups, but there is so many planets – so many species and cultures, I’m pretty sure there is wide range of approach. I mean, in cultures like of Dathomir, where only women have high social position and were taught they are better and above males, it makes sense for them to seek company of other women, while male slaves population were just for breeding  or pleasuring their masters kinda like ancient Grecee just with
reverse social roles . Similar to Dathomir was Hapan society, in which men also were the second class citizens and some felt so trapped by matriarchal society they run away and became pirates. Maybe not the best examples, but for sure human and human-like species aren’t the same and in some the male and female sex is primally for breeding, not of romantic choice, I guess. What opens door for various perceptions of sexuality and gender. Not sure if Legends or New Canon gave much informations about the matter (beside already quoted stuff by Padawnlost) but in star wars universe Hutts were hermaphrodites (which meant they had both male and female reproductive organs and as a result of this, gender was more of a case of a Hutt’s deliberate decision) and
Devaronians have visibly sexual dimorphism

(interesting, some females lack the fur [a femine trait], have skin colors and details more male-like, but their female gender was never questioned by other characters) and I’m pretty sure there are also races that lack dimorphism or don’t care much for romantic feelings or kept their true gender/look in secret and seeing them without the mask/clothes is great offend if one is not their partner (Tusken Raiders/Sand People).

Same with human x alien relationships. Between human race, most likely is acceptable if alien was humanoid and only had non-human color of skin/hair or other small details that were easy to ignore (Twi’leks, Zeltrons to name few). The more alien creature wouldn’t be that liked. Those mixed relationship for sure were looked down during Empire era, due to the pro-human ideology and racism/speciesism.

I know that Legends weren’t that specific with talking about acceptance of different sexuality or gender, but it put some ground for fans to see that
galaxy is not unified in this matter – some cultures are gonna be more
accepting

than others and a lot
depends on social & cultural conditions

people lived in and considered as norm. And since the various species co-exist, the idea of gender and sexuality is evolving all the time.

From new sources, I’m familiar mainly with Aphra comics series, but it’s hard to judge how society looks upon lesbian/homosexual women since the story is about rogue archaelogist, involved with bounty hunters and imperials, so the society’s opinion does not matter much in Aphra’a adventures.

Hope it helps 🙂