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- ZARYA FROM OVERWATCH HAS BEE A GAY IN, IRONILLY
- IS SYMMETRA A GAY IN?
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
ZARYA FROM OVERWATCH HAS BEE A GAY IN, IRONILLY
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To fans, she is the pk-haired big spoon of our dreams and to many, a gay idol.
While big mcl and short dyed hair certaly don’t mean a woman is gay, there’s no qutn that a huge number of fans read Zarya as a Sapphist. And so, a nonil nflict aris: the Rsian ernment recent years has taken great measur to crack down on exprsns of homosexualy, which–if Zarya were gay–might make her untry a hard one for her to is one of the strongt women the entire Overwatch universe, and certaly the strongt of the playable female characters.
IS SYMMETRA A GAY IN?
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” Zarya is a cell her body polic, and she lik that Put, Rsia’s patrtism has bee exorably bound to nservative valu set by the Rsian Orthodox Church, which is volly anti-gay. When Ameri legalized gay marriage, the Rsian Orthodox Church went to full-on smear mo, nouncg the Supreme Court’s cisn as “godls” and “sful. Rsian anti-gay sentiment ns eper than church law.
The untry’s so-lled “gay propaganda law, ” passed 2013, bans the spread of “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” unr the premise of protectg Rsian youth om moral cency ( is also illegal to “offend relig feelgs”). In 2014, Put passed a law preventg Rsian children om beg adopted by gay upl.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Over 50% of gay Rsian rponnts for 2013 survey by the Rsian LGBT Network, a St. Homosexualy was actually illegal Rsia until the early ‘’s anti-gay polici garnered ternatnal cricism at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Sixty years later, Zarya would have lvg further to Zarya’s sexualy, ’s important to reerate that jt bee a woman is mega-strong and pk-haired, that do not by any means mean she is gay.
A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearg on her sexual orientatn, beg said, Zarya’s fan art overwhelmgly portrays her as gay. Bill Petras, Overwatch’s artistic director, nfirmed at 2015’s BlizzCon that the game would nta a gay character.
)Timur, 29 and om Sterlamak, says he is repulsed by Zarya, who to him reads as gay. Commentg on Blizzard’s announcement that Overwatch would boast gay characters, one menter wrote, “A game is gonna start ‘Gus who the faggot is? Seyfelmlyov views Rsian gamers’ tak on Zarya as a good barometer for where Rsians stand on gay rights.