![]() Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery - Photo: Brendan Meadows/Paramount+ They’ll appear in a moderated conversation on the main stage on June 4, at 4:15 p.m.Īhead of the event, we spoke with the pair on a joint Zoom call about “life” on the USS Discovery, the need for authentic LGBTQ representation in film and television, and, as both are outspoken activists for LGBTQ causes, their feelings on the recent Supreme Court leak that puts abortion rights - and, potentially, LGBTQ equality - into peril. The torch-bearers of Star Trek are not just paying lip service to the LGBTQ fanbase, but have heard them, loud and clear, and after some failed missteps in the movies, are embracing full LGBTQ diversity with intelligence, heart, and authenticity.Ĭruz, who rose to national fame in the terrific but short-lived 1994 drama series My So-Called Life, and Rapp, beloved from his youth in Adventures in Babysitting, and then later, planting his flag in entertainment history as Mark Cohen in the original Broadway production of Rent, are among the most recognizable out actors of our generation.īoth Cruz and Rapp will appear at the upcoming AwesomeCon in Washington, D.C., over the weekend of June 3 through 5. ‘Back to the Future’ Broadway Review: Bleak Future Picard is catching up, though, with a budding LGBTQ couple of its own, and the franchise’s newest entry, the extraordinary Strange New Worlds, a Discovery spin-off, feels like it’s also beginning to lean in an LGBTQ direction with regard to a few key characters. ![]() Rapp and Cruz, longtime friends, and both out gay actors, bring richness and believability to the couple, and help to make Discovery the most LGBTQ-inclusive of all the series. There will be no spoilers here for anyone who has yet to watch Discovery, other than to say both Stamets and Culber go through extraordinary trials that place their emotions at the fore, and that Season 4, which recently concluded, was the show’s finest moment yet. On Discovery, a spectacular cornerstone of the increasingly indispensible Paramount+ streaming service, Stamets and Culber are a married gay couple, with all the romance and love and friction and anxiety that comes with being in a relationship on a starship whose very existence is threatened with obliteration season after season. ![]()
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