A Bunch of People Got Tricked Into Thkg Mar & Luigi Are Gay. Um.

Contents:

• A GOVERNMENT TWTER ACUNT APOLOGIZ FOR POST ABOUT SUPER MAR BROS. GAY LUIGI
• A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT TRICKED INTO THKG MAR & LUIGI ARE GAY. UM.
• 'THE SUPER MAR BROS. MOVIE' AT CENTRE OF HOMOPHOBIA NTROVERSY: I HOPE LUIGI IS GAY

A GOVERNMENT TWTER ACUNT APOLOGIZ FOR POST ABOUT SUPER MAR BROS. GAY LUIGI

Screenshot: IllumatnEarlier this week, Colombia’s Mistry of the Interr tweeted, “I hope Luigi is gay” rponse to a tweet that appeared to claim Mar was heterosexual. The tweet was leted, but screenshots rurfaced some time after—wh many cricizg the e of a gay slur.

Whoever ns the ernment partment’s social media acunt issued a sort-of apology on You Should Know About Mar Strikers' Big Free UpdateOffEnglish“We know they weren’t the right words, but we are aware that homophobia kills, ” tweeted the acunt. But what upset a lot of people was the way that the acunt lled Luigi gay. I don’t know what’s worse: Beg outed as a homophobe, or possibly accintally g out of the closet at work before you’re ready.

” God willg, this was jt some queer worker gay-postg about The Super Mar Bros. The game also featur a memorable gay character, Tony.

A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT TRICKED INTO THKG MAR & LUIGI ARE GAY. UM.

Perre Gay... Here's somethg that sure lated quickly: neoGAF er sphx noticed that at current, there are an absurd number of Spanish webs that report some variatn of the ia that Mar and Luigi are gay. As far as I n tell, the earlit thg related to this ms om Ciencia Semal, who, on July 16th, wrote that on July 12th, Sato Iwata, print of Ntendo, spoke of some "vtigatn rults" where players unr 10 years tend to thk that Luigi & Mar are a gay uple stead of simply beg brothers.

'THE SUPER MAR BROS. MOVIE' AT CENTRE OF HOMOPHOBIA NTROVERSY: I HOPE LUIGI IS GAY

(For those of you rollg your ey: my time here has tght me to never say somethg is for certa unls I n verify wh absolute certaty) any se, a follow-up article then appeared on July 19th, allegg that Mar creator Shige Miyamoto stated that Super Mar Bros was always tend as an allegory for the gay muny—and, get this, that they weren't brothers, but actualy, gay. It was a game charged wh the signs of gay culture, and Luigi and Mar were a gay uple tryg to brave a society that rejects them, " Miyamoto supposedly once se go on to say that this premise later changed when the game was brought to an ternatnal market.

Then go on show possible "evince" of gay culture the game, like how the flagpole at the end of the levels are phallic symbols and Goombas reprent somethg like that. Movie' at centre of homophobia ntroversy: I hope Luigi is gayLWTBSActualizado.

Many social media ers were taken by surprise when the Colombian Mistry of the Interr rpond to a tweet claimg that Super Mar was Mistry's official acunt quoted the aforementned tweet and replied "I hope Luigi is gay" should be noted that the word ed Spanish "mari" n be an pecially offensive post received numero repli, wh social media ers htg out at the Mistry of the Interr.