C3po gay

Introduced in the first Star Wars film, A New Hop e, in , C-3PO is science fiction’s first great queer character. He proved that gays are not a monolith and can, in fact, show up early. In A New Hope, Anakin Skywalker builds C-3PO from the scraps of a trashed protocol droid.

George Lucas in a rare interview admitted that the popular C-3PO character was originally based on his gay friend, Josh Templar, who helped him design some of the Star Wars characters at the time.