Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker and Han Solo were engaged in a homosexual love affair.The Doctor Who and Queer as Folk supremo has insisted that George Lucas' original 1977 space opera is chock full of hints that the heroic pair were in fact a gay couple.He even asserted that the duo got frisky on the Millennium Falcon spaceship, commenting: "It was happening, I’m a writer, I’ve written those scenes, they were banging away!"And he isn't the first person to think so - the relationship has such a large fanbase that there's even a ship name for Luke and Han, dubbed SkySolo.As for Russell, it's far from the first time the Doctor Who wordsmith has raised the subject of gay romance in Star Wars.After the introduction of bisexual Captain Jack.