The new 'Animal Crossg' game — 'New Horizons,' which dropped on March 20, 2020 — has troduced Ntendo's first ever gay character. Fans are pretty exced.
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- ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
- EXCGNEW ‘ANIMAL CROSSG’ GAME INTRODUC NTENDO’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- ANIMAL CROSSG’S UNOFFICIAL GAY COUPLE GETS EVEN GAYER AFTER UPDATE
ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
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In a piece for i-D, “gay for play: how vio gam beme a space to virtually explore queerns, ” Jake Hall explas this phenomenon, wrg: “Animals and fantasy characters have long been embraced by queer gamers, most notably Pokémon. It’s not hard to see why: Dto is an amorpho blob that lerally shape-shifts s inty at will, Jynx is arguably the fierct animated drag queen of all time and Gyarados and Machoke are the mcle daddi that baby gays worldwi never knew they need.
EXCGNEW ‘ANIMAL CROSSG’ GAME INTRODUC NTENDO’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
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A Gaymg magaze piece tled “How Vio Gam Provi Safe Spac for Queer Exploratn, ” Cal Galiz-Rowe explas that “vio gam are not magil piec of media that trounce all others terms of their mer or universaly.
ANIMAL CROSSG’S UNOFFICIAL GAY COUPLE GETS EVEN GAYER AFTER UPDATE
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For now, rt assured: Animal Crossg: New Horizons do ed say “gay rights. It seems clear, though, that Gracie's origal sign was meant to be stereotypilly gay. " However, "roommat" has been a phemism for habg gay upl for years, so Ntendo's explanatn may have jt add fuel to the fire.
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