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8) Cinta and Vel

Image: Lucasfilm
Image: Lucasfilm

Star Wars’ rocky history with LGBTQ representation largely leads to a “take anything you can get” philosophy, but while Cinta and Vel might not have explicitly kissed on screen or anything like that, the fraying relationship and love we saw between them as freedom fighters and as a couple was far more profoundly welcoming—simply allowing them to exist as people in this world, instead of a prop.