Move over, Tinky Winky. There’s a new gay superstar in town, and his name is Jar Jar Binks.

Sci-fi fans, movie critics and gay writers across America say the flamboyant, computer-generated alien from “Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace” is definitely homosexual.

“His whooping outcry in moments of emotional distress [reminds] viewers of the outrageously feminine half of the ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ couple,” the Chicago Tribune said.

“Jar Jar is definitely gay!” proclaimed this week’s Village Voice, which shows a limp-wristed Jar Jar carrying a handbag on the front page.

And a crop of new Web sites dedicated to blasting Binks say his over-the-top whining and lisping have ruined the “Star Wars” franchise.

“[He] stays a little too close to Obi-Wan and company, and who else but the gay male community would wear that sleeveless leather vest?” the Web site JarJarsucks.com says.

But Bronx-born actor Ahmed Best, who plays Jar Jar with the help of computer-generated special effects, insists his character is straight as an arrow.

“Jar Jar is definitely not gay. He’s not homosexual. He’s not homo anything,” Best told The Post yesterday as he signed autographs at Coconuts Music and Movies on Sixth Avenue.

“But if people feel pride in thinking that he is the first gay character in ‘Star Wars,’ then that’s fine.”

Last year, preacher Jerry Falwell sparked a furor when he called the “Teletubbies” character Tinky Winky a “gay role model” because he carries a handbag.

In “The Phantom Menace” – No. 1 at the box office – Jar Jar is introduced as a bumbling, effeminate alien who helps two Jedi warriors battle evil droids.

Dan Wilson, of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in the West Village, said his group had “no information one way or another whether Jar Jar is gay.”

“But I can assure you if he is attacked and bashed the way Tinky Winky was by Jerry Falwell, then we will certainly embrace him in our community.

“We’ll just have to wait until Episode 2 comes out. Maybe Jar Jar will get together with C-3PO.”

In a statement, director George Lucas and his LucasFilm company said: “‘Star Wars’ is a fantasy movie set in a galaxy far, far away … To dissect [it] as if it has a direct reference to the world that we know today is absurd.”