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Contents:

• WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO INTRODUCE TRANSGENR CHARACTER AND GAY PIRATE COUPLE IN UPG SHADOWLANDS EXPANSN
• GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD FORCED TO CHANGE NAME BEE OF ER PLATS [UPDATED]
• BLIZZARD FORCIBLY CHANG GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD NAME
• MARRIED GAY UPLE NFIRMED FOR SHADOWLANDS
• ARE THERE ANY GAY SERVERS?
• GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD FORCED TO CHANGE NAME AFTER ‘PLATS’
• THREAD: GAY CHARACTERS WOW? + LORE QUTN REGARDG FORSAKEN

WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO INTRODUCE TRANSGENR CHARACTER AND GAY PIRATE COUPLE IN UPG SHADOWLANDS EXPANSN

World of Warcraft recently announced they will be troducg a transgenr character as well as a gay pirate uple their upg Shadowlands expansn.

Not only will Blizzard be troducg a transgenr character, but WoWHead revealed they will also be troducg a gay pirate uple to the game as part of the Night Fae mpaign. In the open Q&A at BlizzCon 2011, one of the qutns was: "There really hasn't been a large reprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr characters the World of Warcraft lore. Off the top of my head, I don't know if we're currently velopg gay or lbian characters but 's certaly a possibily.

GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD FORCED TO CHANGE NAME BEE OF ER PLATS [UPDATED]

Flynn Fairwd and Matthias Shaw are gay now? Gay - Character.

"GAY BOYS" name change durg week of heightened Blizzard scty.

BLIZZARD FORCIBLY CHANG GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD NAME

Enlarge / What's to bee of the WoW Classic guild "GAY BOYS"? Ars Techni received word on Thursday that the "GAY BOYS" guild wh the recent World of WarCraft Classic fork had s name changed late Wednday to the mache-generated gibberish "Guild ZFXPK. A cursory sn of existg WoW guilds shows another one named "GAY BOYS, " which had a temporary name change 2016, followed by a Blizzard fom thread askg why had been changed.

In an emailed statement, "GAY BOYS" member Ah Jilani wrote:.

If you reviewed my chat logs, you would see multiple msag om dividuals through my recment procs of gettg to where we are today, wh dividuals msagg "Fuck the gays, reported, " amongst other extremely hateful and discrimatg ments...

MARRIED GAY UPLE NFIRMED FOR SHADOWLANDS

"To say there is anythg appropriate about the words GAY or BOYS is, and of self, appropriate, childish, and discrimatory, " Jilani said.

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ARE THERE ANY GAY SERVERS?

The maker of the hugely popular onle game, World of Warcraft, has changed s policy on gay teams followg an outcry om many players. Blizzard was acced of beg heavy-hand by threateng to expel a player for advertisg a gay-iendly team or guild. In late January, Sara Andrews ed the channels to say that the guild she helps n, lled Oz, was set up to be gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr "iendly".

She said many players ed homophobic language the game that went unchallenged. Many poted out that Warcraft has a thrivg muny of gay players, or gaymers, and that ma no sense to censor talk about players' sexualy outsi Azeroth. Gay pri march are known to have taken place Warcraft and there are many other guilds the game that are known to be iendly toward the gay muny.

5 ln-strong virtual world that rivals some of s MMOG s the East, has a pretty unfortunate policy ncerng s Lbian, Gay, Transgenr and Bisexual players: don't ask, don't tell. It also suggts that they are happy to ddle those ers who thk 's OK to throw out homophobic ephets, of which - their view - there mt be many. State of Maryland, home of my high school alma mater, revoked a law banng gay marriage as nflicted wh the state's policy on equal rights.

GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD FORCED TO CHANGE NAME AFTER ‘PLATS’

Consirg their (reported) lack of actn for homophobic ephets on official game foms, this latt actn adds to a very unfortunate public policy on homosexualy on the foms says, I was enjoyg a nice md rottg night of playg world of warcraft (who needs a man when you n have a nightelf, right?

So I'm bobbg along tryg to grd away to a higher level, and then general chat, a few players were g words like faggot and gay.

THREAD: GAY CHARACTERS WOW? + LORE QUTN REGARDG FORSAKEN

I emailed Blizzard and asked them to do somethg, Blizzard's rponse was "jt ignore em, they'll go away", riiiiiiiiight, like that's ever worked wh a gay basher. Related Lks: Homosexualy and Gamg Gay Gamg.

Blizzard censors an LGBT World of Warcraft Classic guild's name due to cludg the word 'gay, ' cg repeated -game reports. Blizzard is beg lled out for yet another ntroversy today, as an LGBT guild World of Warcraft Classic has reportedly been forced to change s name due to cludg the word "GAY. " Ars Techni is reportg that the LGBT World of Warcraft Classic guild "GAY BOYS" had s guild name censored this past week, replaced wh a temporary new guild name.

The spensn was ultimately overturned, but how an vtigatn cid to not only censor the word "Gay" but also punish the guild creator at the same time remas unclear. "To say there is anythg appropriate about the words GAY or BOYS is, and of self, appropriate, childish, and discrimatory. The GAY BOYS guild is appealg the censorship of their guild name and is currently awag an official rponse.

World of Warcraft players 2012 stirred up a ntroversy over Blizzard's fom censorship of the words "transexual" and "homosexual. Blizzard changed the name of a World of Warcraft Classic guild wh the name "GAY BOYS" after mass er reportg.