A gay character has been introduced into Star Wars canon (Picture: Lucasfilm)

The Star Wars universe has gained its first ever gay character.

Moff Mors will become the first gay character in the official Star Wars canon when he appears in Paul S. Kemp’s novel Star Wars: Lords of the Sith.

Mors, who is a lesbian, is an Imperial and a strong, capable leader who strives to prevent failure.

The news was revealed by Shelly Shapiro, editor of Star Wars novels at publisher Del Rey, during the Full Of Sith (geddit?) podcast with fansite Big Shiny Robot.


Shapiro said that while gay characters in the Star Wars universe is nothing new (the Expanded Universe, which is not recognised as official canon, had a book series called Legacy Of The Force which featured a gay Mandalorian couple) it ‘just makes sense’ to include a gay character to reflect diversity.



Shapiro told the site: ‘There’s a lot of diversity – there should be diversity in Star Wars.

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The Star Wars saga continues this year – will we be seeing Moff Mors? (Picture: Twitter)

‘You have all these different species and it would be silly to not also recognize that there’s a lot of diversity in humans.

‘If there’s any message at all, it’s simply that Star Wars is as diverse – or more so because they have alien species – as humanity is in real life and we don’t want to pretend it’s not. It just felt perfectly natural.’

Lords Of The Sith is out April 28.

Star Wars is returning to the big screen in December with The Force Awakens, starring John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

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