Yterday was an tertg day for Overwatch, as dropped to a newly released lore story that foced on Ana, was revealed that Soldier: 76, Jack Morrison, is gay.
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- NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
- "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
- IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
- Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
- HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
- 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
- 27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY
- SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
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. * soldier gay overwatch *
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’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.
"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
Move, he's gay. * soldier gay overwatch *
Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season?
IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * soldier gay overwatch *
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.
Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
* soldier gay overwatch *
And we've jt learned that he's gay. What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY.
HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
A new study found that after the character was revealed to be gay a ic, players chose Soldier: 76 ls equently -game. * soldier gay overwatch *
IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD.
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 gay overwatch *
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.
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 gay overwatch *
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?
That is a grand total of 2 gay characters the 27 character st. But yterday was an tertg day for the seri, as dropped to a newly released lore story that foced on Ana was the reveal that Soldier: 76, Jack Morrison, is gay, or at the very least, terted men. So to have both Tracer and Soldier: 76 be gay, that’s rather signifint an dtry where almost no major gamg ins are nfirmed to be LGBTQ.
27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY
We've piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be... gay. Or bi. Or what-have-you. * soldier gay overwatch *
Some are accg of Blizzard pullg a JK Rowlg wh an “actually, Dumbledore is gay” reveal after the fact, spe that never me up the books or movi.
Everyone seems to be eher A) happy B) claimg they knew he was gay all along C) different. While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character. Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game.
SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement. After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game. “They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse.
Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League. And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well.
It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men. “Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men, ” Nseler wrote. Soldier 76 beg revealed as gay Overwatch felt forced.