Next is Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart's graphic novel, Lights, Planets, People! The graphic novel is an adaptation of Naylor's play about Maggie, a queer, bipolar astronomer suddenly having trouble with public speaking. Lights, Planets, People! Avery Hill Publishing Even though Heist's novel is widely panned by readers as a "piece of shit," Alana sees it as a "treatise on radical pacifism." And, what is more Trek than a person's vision that pop culture can inspire others to take a path to a better tomorrow? The protagonists, Alana and Marko, are moved to take action to change their war-torn planets by an in-universe novel by D. Even better, Saga has its own Zora (played by Annabelle Wallis on Discovery), a living spaceship from the Rocketship rainforest (although Saga's ship isn't as sentient as Discovery's resident AI badass).īut most importantly, Saga shows the power of fiction to change lives. As far as LGBTQ+ rep goes, this book has everything from pansexual characters to transgender characters to robosexuals. In case you don't know, Saga is queer as all get out. Let's start with the famous (and maybe most obvious) queer comic that Discovery fans may enjoy: Saga by Brian K. So, without further adieu, here's a list of queer comics for the Star Trek: Discovery fan. We can't get enough of the show's manifesto that Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations must include the LGBTQIA+ community, so we've created a list of fantastic LGBTQIA+ comics about queers in space.
Recently, Queer as Folk's Jesse James Keitel played a non-binary character on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Jess Bush's Nurse Christine Chapel (originated by the First Lady of Star Trek, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) came out as bisexual.ĭiscovery started the rainbow age of Star Trek, and we love it. There is the canonically pansexual Beckett Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome) and the TBD canonically asexual Andarithio Billups (played by Paul Scheer). Not only did Star Trek: Prodigy introduce Zero, a character with they/them pronouns, but Star Trek: Lower Decks also has characters who fall on every point of the Kinsey scale. Since Discovery first aired in 2017, the 'woke' Trek that the conservatives hate has taken over the franchise. So, although Beyond was the first, it was Discovery that opened the doors to a much queerer Trek. In what original Sulu actor George Takei called "a whisper of a scene," Beyond's Sulu is seen holding his husband's hand (Cho also criticized the film for removing a same-gender kiss when he returned home). Sulu came out of the sonic shower in Star Trek: Beyond a year before DISCO introduced Stamets and Culber, the film did not have any significant onscreen rep. In their lives before Trek, Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz played an essential role in opening the doors for their Discovery co-stars like Blu del Barrio, Ian Alexander, Mary Wiseman, Mary Chieffo, and more.Īlthough John Cho's Lt. At the same time, Wilson Cruz was the first openly gay man to play a gay character on television in his role as Ricky Vasquez on My So Called Life. Getting his big break while starring in Rent on Broadway, Anthony Rapp was once called "one of the first openly gay men on Broadway" by Metro Weekly (although he identifies as queer). Although before Discovery, both men were already groundbreaking queer actors, having a gay couple on Trek was an essential step in queer representation onscreen. Star Trek: Discovery broke new ground in 2016 with the franchise's first onscreen gay couple, Commander Paul Stamets and Doctor Hugh Culber, played by two queer icons, Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz.
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