Star Trek is set in the future, but that doesn't change that it was made in the past. An kiss between a white man and a black woman (even a kiss that only happened because said man and woman were telekinetically coerced!) was a huge deal. (Somehow, all that interspecies kissing was not...?) It was big that there was a black woman on the ship at all - along with a Japanese-American, and (gasp!) a Russian. It was the sixties.

And progress has been running its course ever since.

There's a significant amount of gay nerdage around now... Maybe not enough, but it can be found. The latest nerd craze appears to be Doctor Who, which in its 2005 rebooting introduced a bisexual supporting character (who now has his own spinoff show, in which everyone is bisexual), a smattering of gay minor characters, and quite possibly even a bisexual Doctor. Just for example.

I agree, though, I'd like to see more.

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Yeah, but do you think Roddenbury knew that at the time? One of Sulu's most famous scenes is him waving his sword around with his shirt off while he kidnaps a beautiful woman. I'm pretty sure they were suggesting a heterosexual romance there.
But in Star Trek: The Next Generation, there was a civilization of androgynous people, who are kind of like trans. And the Enterprise people stick up for someone who thinks they are a woman who is a citizen there--metaphore for GLBTQ rights. Also, Kurzon Dax, a man who lived before DS9, has a female baody, Jadzia, on the show (but she's straight). But there still aren't really any actual GLBTQ main characters, even though there are like 9 main characters on each of the 5 shows. Well, just one more thing for me to fix when I co-direct/write/star in my own Star Trek series!

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I just watched the 1st episode--loved it! Not better than Dr WHo, of course, though. But Harkness is SUPER cute!!! ;)

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Dumbledore was gay. :)

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I mean, you could just attribute it to the Everyone Is Bisexual For Jack Harkness Effect (which I think is a legitimate scientific phenomenon, at least in-universe), except that Ten seemed to be immune.

And yeah, Dumbledore... But it was never more than implied - he actually had to be formally outed by Rowling herself after Deathly Hallows was published. That's hardly nerd equality.

Plus what the hell's with Remus and Tonks getting married, I mean, I know it was so the audience could have a Remus and Tonks baby to console it after two of its favorite characters were killed without so much as an appropriately awesome/sad/somehowmakingitabigdeal death scene, but really. And as for the students, it's just up to the audience to pick out which ones haven't demonstrated any heterosexual leanings, and even those (Neville had some promise, maybe, and a lot of us would rather have had him as the Chosen One anyway, but that's unrelated) have an annoying habit of being confirmed straight by Word of Rowling.

I love Harry Potter, don't get me wrong. But seriously. It's like, 'No, really, audience, Dumbledore's the only queer wizard here, see - marriage! marriage! bam! marriage!' and even Dumbledore was at least somewhat closeted.