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Xena Made Me Gay

  • Exactly the Xena rewatch podcast I hold been yearning for!

    06/14/2023

    Sean from Chicago 14

    Every night when I was young I’d eagerly await the time when Xena came on TV and we could cheer her on. Every now and then for years I have been hoping to discover a rewatch podcast that was insightful, funny, and competent to bring it back to experience. THIS IS IT! Alisa and Kris are the flawless hosts for this and OBVIOUSLY any Xena podcast should pay particular attention to how incredibly gay the performance is. The hosts pluck out all the many rainbow moments and transport them into the glorious sunlight, I love it, I feel like I’m watching the display again for the first time. It’s also fascinating to situate this rewatch within the context of the post-Soviet 1990s and how Alisa and Kris experienced it in that television and cultural landscape. Can’t wait for more!

Lucy Lawless says it was "crazy" becoming a gay icon assist in the '90s as Xena

'Xena: Warrior Princess' was all sorts of amazing. Not only did Lucy Lawless become a male lover icon for her portrayal of Xena in the live-action TV series, but she also showed the world that we were in desperate need of a powerful female lead.

Lawless' affect on pop culture during the series run from 1995 to 2001 paved the way for many other TV series with a strong female character in a central role to step forward. Following its release, 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', and 'Alias' all became instant hits too.

The series saw Lawless play the titular character, a bad-ass ethics who wields her trusty chakram in order to rid the world of evil as she attempts to get away from her dark past. She teams up with Renee O’Connor’s Gabrielle, and the pair of them have long been theorized by fans of being lovers. After all, it is implied during the series that they are soulmates.

Lucy Lawless and her gay icon realisation was discussed in length during a recent interview with Collider. Remembering the exact moment she and O'Connor found out about their modern fanbase, sh

The gay ‘Xena’ reboot has been scrapped

NBC announced in 2015 that the studio was preparing for a reboot of Xena: Warrior Princess—more than 20 years after the display first went to air.

Writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost) walked away from the undertaking a few months ago citing “creative differences” and NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke has now confirmed that the new series is “dead”.

"Nothing is happening on that right now,” Salke tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“We looked at some material; we decided at that show that it didn't warrant the reboot. I'd never declare never on that one because it's such a beloved title, but the current incarnation of it is dead."

Grillo-Marxuach had intended to explore the partnership between Xena and Gabrielle—a romance that was only subtly alluded to in the original series.

"There is no reason to bring back Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s," Grillo-Marxuach said in March 2016. 

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As an old (read: 90s) prophesy once said: “In a time of ancient gods, warriors and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess — her courage will change the world.” Now, Xena, Warrior Princess is back to change the world once more in a fresh rebooted series. What’s more, she will be openly gay. “Xena will be a very different reveal made for very distinct reasons,” Javier Grillo-Marxuach, the show’s executive producer, confirmed in a Tumblr Q&A. “There is no reason to bring advocate Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s.”

Fans of the original show — which ran between 1995-2001 — will think of the latent sexual undercurrent that existed between Lucy Lawless’ character and Renee O’Connor’s Gabrielle. It didn’t matter how many ripped demi gods came between them, they were clearly in love. Even Lawless recognized this, telling Lesbian News in 2003 that Xena was “definitely gay”: “There was always a &