User blog comment:Dalledayul/LGBT in Star Wars/@comment-20644-20150103224654

Great topic. Star Wars should definitely include more LGBT characters. For a franchise as massive and wide-reaching as Star Wars, it's important to have diversity, and characters that everyone can see themselves in.

I also think that Star Wars society would be fine with non-straight individuals. It's a hugely advanced society where racism isn't at play. Sexism theoretically isn't at play either (despite some earlier EU works depicting it for social reasons). So why should homophobia, transphobia, etc be at play?