One of the game's most popular characters, Soldier: 76 has been revealed to be gay - and reactns are mixed.
Contents:
- "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
- OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
- IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
- OVERWATCH SHORT STORY NFIRMS THAT SOLDIER 76 IS GAY
- A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
- BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
- SOLDIER 76 SEXUALY: ‘OVERWATCH’ CHARACTER CONFIRMED AS CANONILLY GAY
- BLIZZARD NFIRMS ‘OVERWATCH’ HERO SOLDIER: 76 INTIFI AS GAY
- Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * soldier 76 gay confirmation *
Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay. Both intify as gay.
Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story.
New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship.
OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
Move, he's gay. * soldier 76 gay confirmation *
Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier. He’s gay.
In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else.
IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
* soldier 76 gay confirmation *
Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season? While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story. And we've jt learned that he's gay.
What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY. IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD.
YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE.
OVERWATCH SHORT STORY NFIRMS THAT SOLDIER 76 IS GAY
A new Overwatch short story lv to Ana's origs and nfirms that Soldier 76 is gay. * soldier 76 gay confirmation *
“Both intify as gay, ” Chu nfirmed.
It turns out that a send character Blizzard's Overwatch n offer players some LGBTQ reprentatn, as Soldier: 76 has been nfirmed to be gay. ” Followg the story's publitn, Michael Chu, the story's thor, tweeted an explic nfirmatn that 76 intifi as gay. Rowlg's proclamatn that Dumbledore was gay, that seems like a move ma to sre polil pots rather than to elaborate on the ner workgs of a refully nsired character.
Image via Blizzard Entertament Soldier: 76 is a gay man, as nfirmed by the 2019 short story Bastet. The reveal that Soldier: 76 was gay Bastet marked the ex-Overwatch manr as the game’s send nfirmed LGBTQ hero.
A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
Soldier 76 is the send "Overwatch" hero to be intified as queer or gay. * soldier 76 gay confirmation *
He also remas the only gay man on the st as of now, although flirty teractns between Lifeweaver and other hero such as Baptiste uld lead to addnal revelatns on character sexuali g the near future. A new Overwatch short story lv to Ana's origs and nfirms that Soldier 76 is gay. Bastet nfirms that Soldier: 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character.
) Related: Blizzard releas an Ana short story—and nfirms Soldier: 76 as the game’s send gay character Here’s an excerpt om the story. In the Reflectns ic, where Tracer was revealed as gay, Blizzard slipped the same photo of Vcent and Soldier: 76.
BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
Blizzard reveals that Overwatch's Soldier: 76 is gay - but they n do better than an isolated short story that might also be a PR distractn. * soldier 76 gay confirmation *
A short story tie- to one of the most popular gam the world revealed that one of the game's most regnizable characters is gay — generatg an enthiastic rponse om fans, many of whom had already spected as much. Some fans were nfint that the character was gay based on his relatnships wh the game's other hero, while others felt that he took on an asexual role as the patriarch of "Overwatch. " Michael Chu, the lead wrer of "Overwatch, " later nfirmed on Twter that Solir 76, a super-soldier once known as Jack Thompson, intifi as gay.
SOLDIER 76 SEXUALY: ‘OVERWATCH’ CHARACTER CONFIRMED AS CANONILLY GAY
Soldier 76 sexualy is a topic of hot gossip as of now as the creators cid to announce the character as nonilly gay. * soldier 76 gay confirmation *
—Michael Chu ?? (@wtofhoe) January 7, 2019LGBTQ fans seem to have embraced the news and weled Soldier 76 as the game's send gay character.
(@KayGRadley) January 7, 2019Another bisexual fan showed off his Soldier 76 jacket wh pri:—Rae (@skelerae) January 7, 2019Well-known ports champn Domique "SonicFox" McLean, who is gay, ma an affectnate (but slightly risqué) joke on his Twter, too.
"I mean, that's great that #Soldier76 is gay but let's be f**kg real.
BLIZZARD NFIRMS ‘OVERWATCH’ HERO SOLDIER: 76 INTIFI AS GAY
Blizzard reveals that Overwatch's Soldier: 76 is gay - but they n do better than an isolated short story that might also be a PR distractn. Related: How Pennywise and The Babadook Beme Gay Ins. Fans had so many qutns that the wrer of the piece, Michael Chu, took to Twter to nfirm that, y, Jack Morrison is a gay man.
The problem to foc when we take a step back and realize that a huge portn of the fan base, the nsole players, never see the one piece of story ntent that picts Soldier: 76 as beg gay.
Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
We would all do well to remember that, bee as fantastic as is that Overwatch now has a playable, nonilly gay character, Blizzard is a lossal rporatn.
They played safe wh the reveal that Jack Morrison is gay, relegatg to an piece of world-buildg lore that only a mory of players will see. Rowlg famoly clared that Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore was gay years after the re books were fished whout ever puttg that to the actual text of her works.
Blizzard's Very Convenient Gay Smokcreen. The January 7 announcement of a gay Soldier: 76 giv the game a major posive PR boost and shifts the story away om narrativ about harassment the muny and the subset of toxic profsnal players. However, nothg about the story or what was clud the update self directly speaks to Soldier: 76 as a gay man that uldn't have been done sce Jeff Kaplan teased the update on January 4.