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Do You Know This LGBTQ+ Disabled Character?

Felix Gaeta is an amputee, Bisexual, and uses he/him pronouns.

archivist7761

alone she sleeps...

nicoleanell

#but can someone explain the bisexual to me? it's been so long since I last watched bsg

Right at the time BSG aired, shows were very keen on releasing little "webisode" shorts online that tied into canon.

In season 4, they made some webisodes focused on Gaeta that sort of led into the mutiny arc. They're not that great, but they did make him explicitly bisexual, with a past relationship with a Sharon/Eight and a current relationship with a male crew member, Lt. Hoshi.

So it wasn't addressed in the "main" series - and people watching now via streaming really have to go *looking* for it - but it was kind of a well-meaning effort to confirm him as a queer character before the show ended (and right before they killed him whoops). Considering it was implied that he had feelings for Baltar and a lot of fans already read him as queer and shipped him with everyone. And now you know!

#oh bsg #I don’t want a remake and there’s lots of things about this show that would be ruined in a modern tv landscape #however #it would have been nice to have some queer characters who weren’t asterisked in ‘#it’s canon but in the supplementary material #though you know it’s nice that they did think about it #battlestar galactica #felix gaeta #my boy!!!