Varko Grey and the others

"As if they had read her mind, two men appeared at the edge of the patio and walked toward her and Elzar. Marlowe and Vellis, the scion of the San Tekka empire and his husband. [.]

The group sat, and Avar gently reached out with the Force to sense the emotional state of their hosts. They were utterly relaxed. Not that she expected anything else. A gorgeous lakeside patio with the love of your life at your side and enough credits for a thousand lifetimes?

Of course the San Tekkas were relaxed."

I am old enough that a simple passage like this one on a Star Wars book still fills me with excitement.

Nothing special, you would say.

We are alive in a moment in time, in which we can *complain* about which companies or franchises have or do not have "the right" to claim their support to the LGBTQA+ community.

Automatically assuming that even maybe for just one month, this claim is GREAT for their PR.

That is GOOD to be on the acceptance and tolerance wagon.

That is COOL to belong to or support this community.

But it wasn't.

For the longest time, it wasn't.

And I am not here to say that the work is done, or denying the miles that we have to travel still, or to condone hypocrisy.

I totally understand diffidence and the will to be always better.

But things like ally-families-filled pride marches and rainbow flags in Nike retail shops, are still affecting me.

I did not grow up in a time or a place in which all this was even close to being "cool" or "good" or "great".

So, sure.

The San Tekkas are just characters like many others in LOTJ.

But reading that "his" associate with "husband" and "love of your life" is STILL something that moves me.

Like I actually cried when the -fascist Imperial squadron leader- Varko Grey spoke about his husband with me, while playing "Squadrons".

I started this week with the promise that I was going to rant about freedom and choices and responsibility.

And this is a good example of how, day after day, what we say, whom we vote, what we buy, modify the world in which we live in.

Even our smallest decisions make this change possible.

[Photo: important pin by @hellotherecargo, who donated the profits to the Trevor Project]