'Overwatch' Hero Soldier 76 Is Gay and Fans Love It

Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• 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
• "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
• A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
• IS SOLDIER 76 STILL GAY?
• HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

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’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier.

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

He’s gay. In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else. 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. Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay.

“Both intify as gay.

"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT

Both intify as gay. 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. —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. And we've jt learned that he's gay.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY.

BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD. YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE.

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. 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.

So, Soldier 76 is gay, and this kd of shocked a lot of people. Some people are upset by this, sayg that gayns is beg "shoved down their throats" and I wholeheartedly disagree!! Tracer was first revealed to be gay TWO years ago, and now that Soldier 76 is part of the LGBT muny, they say that 's TOO MUCH?

A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

That is a grand total of 2 gay characters the 27 character st.

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.

IS SOLDIER 76 STILL 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.

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

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. 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.