At the beginning of Pride Month, Lynda Carter took to social media to share her thoughts on Wonder Woman's relationship with the LGBTQ+ community.

Carter, who played the superhero on the Wonder Woman television series from 1975 to 1979, has rarely shied away from showing her support for the queer community. She has been a strong advocate for national legislation to protect better LGBTQ+ Americans and stronger protections for transgender persons.

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This month, Carter took to Twitter to explain why Wonder Woman can be a queer icon, providing examples of how she has seen this to be true. "I didn't write Wonder Woman, but if you want to argue that she is somehow not a queer or trans icon, then you're not paying attention," she tweeted. "Every time someone comes up to me and says that [Wonder Woman] helped them while they were closeted, it reminds me how special the role is."

During an interview with Freedom For All Americans, Carter expressed her frustration over LGBTQ+ discrimination. "This whole debate is just ridiculous — I don’t understand why people care so much. Why is this an issue? Transgender people are included in the category of 'gender' last time I checked," Carter said. "It’s even more frustrating to me because a lot of the people making these laws or discriminating against others are from my generation, and we experienced so much of this first hand, whether it was the civil rights movement or the women’s rights movement — we saw exactly how this affected people. How does someone being who they are have an effect on anyone else’s life? I don’t know that I’ll ever understand that."

Carter has also been vocal about Wonder Woman's canonical sexuality, going as far as to share articles confirming the character's attraction to women. Back in 2016, Greg Rucka, the Wonder Woman comics writer, shared that the character is attracted to men and women. "It’s supposed to be paradise," Rucka said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "You’re supposed to be able to live happily. You’re supposed to be able — in a context where one can live happily, and part of what an individual needs for that happiness is to have a partner — to have a fulfilling, romantic and sexual relationship. And the only options are women. But an Amazon doesn’t look at another Amazon and say, ‘You’re gay.’ They don’t. The concept doesn’t exist. Now, are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women? As Nicola [Scott] and I approach it, the answer is obviously yes."

While Carter may have passed the torch to Gal Gadot, her future as part of the Wonder Woman franchise does not yet seem closed. She portrayed Asteria in Wonder Woman 1984 and is expected to reprise the role in Wonder Woman 3.

Wonder Woman is available to stream on HBO Max.

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Sources: Lynda Carter/Twitter, The Hollywood Reporter, Freedom For All Americans