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We've piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be... gay. Or bi. Or what-have-you.

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WHY OVERWATCH'S GAY CHARACTERS ARE SO IMPORTANT

Blizzard Entertament's Overwatch has nfirmed two of s hero are gay, a move that's a major step forward for gamg. * overwatch gay community *

Soldier 76 – Gay. Much like Tracer, Soldier 76 was revealed to be gay a medium outsi of the official Overwatch game. Both intify as gay.”.

On a redd thread om r/gaymers, a popular thread about Overwatch’s Pri ntent has sparked a discsn about Blizzard’s silent drop of an Overwatch player in that was simply tled ‘Rabow. Blizzard Entertament's Overwatch has helped the gamg dtry take a major step forward wh the nfirmatn that Soldier 76 is gay. It's exceedgly rare for a vio game protagonist to be a member of the LGBTQ muny, wh only a handful of gay characters (like Ellie om The Last of Us) playg major rol gamg narrativ.

27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY

In gamg, cisgenr, heterosexual characters are the norm, and to make matters worse, there’s an entire subsectn of gamg culture that sually homosexualy as a punchle or sult, if not beg outright hostile to people who openly intify as LGBTQ. That’s why matters when major characters one of the most popular multiplayer gam the world are revealed to be gay. Blizzard Entertament recently revealed that Soldier 76 is gay, jog his fellow Overwatch character Tracer as two of the most high-profile gay characters gamg.

RELATED: Overwatch Short Story Confirms Soldier: 76 Is Gay. Chu even posted to Twter to nfirm that wasn’t a one-time hookup, that Soldier 76 is, fact, gay. By makg both of them gay, Blizzard is forcg players who may have been hant to embrace LGBTQ characters to realize they’re as valuable as anyone else the game, and not jt as romantic optns.

For years, slurs have been thrown around as blanket sults durg onle gamg ssns, wh gay vio game streamers havg been beltled, threatened and seeg their personal rmatn released by the hateful sectn of gamg that is openly homophobic. A group of Fallout 76 players who harassed players by nng around killg “all gays” have received lifetime bans om the game. SonicFox, a 20-year old pro gamer who is openly gay, won the award for Bt Esports Player of the Year at the 2018 Game Awards.

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