Mark Hamill: Luke Skywalker could be gay; HuffingtonPost.com, 3/4/16

Benjamin Lee, HuffingtonPost.com; Mark Hamill: Luke Skywalker could be gay:

"Mark Hamill has said that his Star Wars character, Luke Skywalker, could be gay.

The 64-year-old actor has spoken about the issue after the Force Awakens director, JJ Abrams, suggested that gay characters could be part of the Star Wars universe in future films.

“I just read online that JJ is very much open to that. In the old days, you would get fan mail,” he said to the Sun. “But now fans are writing and asking all these questions: ‘I’m bullied in school … I’m afraid to come out.’ They say to me: ‘Could Luke be gay?’ I’d say it is meant to be interpreted by the viewer. If you think Luke is gay, of course he is. You should not be ashamed of it. Judge Luke by his character, not by who he loves.”"