Star Wars Fan Theory Confirmed By Billy Dee Williams

This isn’t about wokeness but simple logic. If humans are just one of many sentient species in Star Wars, why would the galaxy define sexuality based on human reproductive organs? As Donald Glover, the other Lando, once asked: “How can you not be pansexual in space?”

Just prior to the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018, it was announced that Lando Calrissian was canonically pansexual, meaning that he could conceivably find anyone in Star Wars sexually attractive. Men, women, both, neither, Wookies, Mon Calamari, it’s all on the table as far as Lando is concerned.

Solo hints that even droids aren’t off-limits to Lando. While fans could probably debate for hours about how to classify an attraction to robots, the point is there are many ways to have a good time in a galaxy far, far away. “This thing is literally a blob. Are you a man or a woman? Like, who cares? Have a good time out here,” Glover once said when trying to elaborate on Lando’s orientation.

Now, Billy Dee Williams’ recent remarks about Han and Lando being more than friends—something Williams has hinted at a few times over the years—seem to hammer home the idea that Lando is down for anything. But just because Lando is a swinger doesn’t mean the rest of Star Wars is right? Well…

Lando might be the most blatant example of pansexuality in Star Wars, but he’s not the only one. Amy Sedaris’s Mandalorian character, Peli Motto, talks about dating a Jawa—who knows what those guys have under their robes. In Legends, Luke Skywalker falls in love with a computer ghost. The ghost was a human female in life, but one could easily argue that sex becomes moot the second one loses their corporeal body.

Perhaps the grossest example is Jabba the Hutt. The slimy crimelord was the giant slug equivalent of Glenn Quagmire, coming on to anything in the palace that moved. Jabba had a Twi-lek slave dancer, an Askajian slave dancer—the six-breasted woman dancing for Jabba in Return of the Jedi—and we know from his lust for Leia that he was also attracted to humans.

All three examples are about as different from the hermaphroditic Jabba as possible and surely don’t conform to typical Hutt beauty standards.

The idea that someone like Lando would limit his options to only half of one species when the larger Star Wars galaxy is full of potential partners is ludicrous. Luke, Rey, Anakin, Chewbacca, and even Jar Jar Binks should all be considered pansexuals until otherwise specified. Or if you don’t want to label them, that’s fine too, but assuming that the default orientation in Star Wars is straight—no matter how hard some fans want it to be—is just laughable.