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(CNN) - In the period of three days, two of the greatest entertainment icons worldwide departed from this planet.But George Michael and Carrie Fisher were more than iconic artists or celebrities.They were symbols of sexuality, archetypes of a sexuality of the late twentieth century that at that time challenged and redefined molds for what would be the 21st century.

The first film of the Galaxias War Saga was released in 1977, the year I was born, and, together with its sequelae, helped define the culture of my generation.

Our sense of good and evil, courage and fear, as well as the feeling that we can blame our parents of our problems can be traced to the war trilogy of galaxies, just like our sense of sexuality.

Although I saw other films with female prominence before or later, I do not remember those women in the way I do it with Princess Leia.She was as if she were the first sexy woman of the galaxy.For several years, everything I knew about what it meant to be a "true woman" orbited near Fisher.

Really, she was on an interstitial planet in the always convulsed solar system of the sexual revolution.The costume of her in the classic films of the Galaxies War, especially that infamous golden dress of "slave" in the return of the Jedi was a retrograde step in female objectification.Even the most conservative white dress that Fisher wore had the gender norm itself imposed on her.

In a book, Fisher recalled that director George Lucas insisted her in not putting a support under the white dress because, as he explained with some confidence, "there is no underwear in space."But leaving the clothes on the way, Fisher's character presaged the next generation of strong and safe women who would fight for their rights and, literally and metaphorically, next to and in conditions of equality with men.Luke could have been the Jedi, but it was Princess Leia who shaped the true socio-cultural war of the galaxies.

If Galaxias War defined the first ten years of my life, Michael did it with the next ten.Very early in my youth, I was probably not sure if I wanted to be Fisher or be with her, but at 12Surely he wanted to be like him.He was safe, gallant and super sexy.

I still had half a dozen years away from discovering my own sexuality, but when looking at the vaporous video of Father Figure I remember thinking that to have women like those who appeared in that clip, it had to be like George Michael.

I bought a leather jacket like his and got too gel in my hair.It looked like a teenage squirrel.

I was a devotee and active fanatic during my adolescence, without ever noticing gender neutrality in most of his lyrics.But I definitely realized when Michael became gay.I really do not remember much about my childhood, but I am very present where I was and what I was doing when I saw him leave the closet on national television during an interview with CNN.

It was only three years after I told my condition to my family and friends during the baccalaureate and I was packing my things in my university bedroom.The news came out and sat on the bed as if everything had been operated in that place.I understood the double life I had been carrying and the double meaning it represented for me.But also, suddenly, here was an icon, perhaps one of the icons, of the male sexuality of my generation, confessing gay.I felt valid, seen and included in the world at a deep level.She was no longer condemned to be removed from the vaporous video of Father Figure, she was part of him and all the secondary plots of him, as Michael himself had been.We were all playing different roles in the always changing interpretation of sexuality.

Suddenly I realized that I could be so sexy, so attractive to those women in that video like Michael had been.It was an opening minds for me, just as it was undoubtedly for millions in the entire world that they suddenly knew that this paradigmatic Don Juan charming of ladies was a Don Juan Gay.

More recently, Fisher completed the complete circle of feminist consciousness that Princess Leia had begun.She liberated from the limiting dresses of decades ago, when she appeared in the last film of the War of the Galaxies, she was criticized, however, by her body, which she did not happen with men.They aged and became somewhat dumps, but men are allowed to age as well as wearing underwear in space, I think.

Through immemorial times, both on earth and in very distant galaxies, there has always been the case that the rules that apply to women do not apply for men.Fisher faced a shameful attack on her age and her body that none of her fellow men has faced.

Fisher's response had the brilliance of a Jedi.He tweeted on how (Oh God !!!) His body had not aged like his mind and then added a derogatory tamile that gave an idea of what earned him.

He added: "Youth and beauty are not achievements, they are temporary and happy derived from time and/or DNA."Neither youth nor beauty have to do with talent, but when have women been judged only for their talent?Especially in an industry like Hollywood, known for their sexist standards against women, Fisher's words sounded extraordinarily strong.

And to the young actress Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in the awakening of the force, Fisher gave him a advice that really seemed to be addressed to each woman in the universe: "You must fight for your dress."In clarifying that what she was talking about went beyond clothes, she added: "Don't be a slave as I was."

Michael and Fisher were innovative artists who became social innovative icons, each in their own way challenging the archetypes that once enclosed them to fame.They became (eternally will be) into vivid reminders of the power of each of us to shape and re -mold our own sexual identity and expression.Technically speaking, none of them was Jedi, but they helped free gender roles and sexuality for all of us.