Soldier: 76 Is Gay, but Overwatch Still Mak Fans Work for Queer Reprentatn

Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY, BUT OVERWATCH STILL MAK FANS WORK FOR QUEER REPRENTATN
• OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
• BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
• A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay.

Both intify as gay.

"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT

Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story. New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier. He’s gay. In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else.

Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season?

SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY, BUT OVERWATCH STILL MAK FANS WORK FOR QUEER REPRENTATN

While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story.

And we've jt learned that he's gay. What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY.

IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD. YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE.

OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

Image via Blizzard Entertament Soldier: 76 is a gay man, as nfirmed by the 2019 short story Bastet. The reveal that Soldier: 76 was gay Bastet marked the ex-Overwatch manr as the game’s send nfirmed LGBTQ hero. He also remas the only gay man on the st as of now, although flirty teractns between Lifeweaver and other hero such as Baptiste uld lead to addnal revelatns on character sexuali g the near future.

However, bigger than new lore was that the story revealed Soldier: 76, the game’s grizzled Capta Ameri-analog, as the send explicly gay character the game’s roster. Soldier: 76 beg gay jt serv to highlight the game’s — and s veloper’s — strange attempts to grapple wh storytellg and inty. That often allows the wispread streak of homophobic toxicy that has been bred the gamg muny for s to persist around Blizzard gam.

Makg Soldier gay, more so than even Tracer, is harr to reckon wh given the muny and the pany’s propensy to play around wh homophobic ncepts that directly impact queer men. Beg gay is simply a bullet pot that ss next to two characters, wh no other velopment.

BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

Given the lack of queer characters gamg, we should be happy wh an olr gay man Overwatch, spe him beg unrwrten. Fans went to Twter to ask Michael Chu, lead wrer, to nfirm that was a former lover; Chu did so, and clarified that both intify as gay.

They also give players a lot of berth to pletely ignore the relatnship and the homosexualy. It also don’t upset those fans Blizzard prevly urted wh a more “apolil” approach that routely mak gay men the butt of s game’s jok.

A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT

But we all know they are still angry Soldier: 76 is a gay man at all.

So, Soldier 76 is gay, and this kd of shocked a lot of people.