Polygon's latt clickba claims Lk is a "gay in," phg the false narrative that The Legend of Zelda seri has "queer them."
Contents:
- LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- POLYGON PH FALSE NARRATIVE THAT ‘THE LEGEND OF ZELDA’ SERI EXPLOR QUEER THEM, CLAIMS LK IS “A GAY IN”
LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
Legend of Zelda fans have long read Lk as gay or transgenr, even if his character is not nonilly queer. Fans have foced on shippg Lk and Sidon and drag readgs of the Gedo qut Breath of the Wild. * link is gay icon *
AO3 may not be the only metric for how many Zelda fans terpret Lk as gay and/or transgenr, but ’s one of the biggt. In art, ’s mon to see queer-d monsters and pecially queer-d villas, particularly bee of how the Hays Co prohibed pictns of homosexualy on screen. This qut fails trans Zelda fans major ways, but much like Aonuma’s nial that Lk is gay, also prents players wh an opportuny.
Even if Lk is never nonilly intified as gay or trans, fan ntent for The Legend of Zelda is everywhere, and queer fans pecially seem to produce ntent drov.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * link is gay icon *
For many, Lk is gay or trans or both, and that’s a powerful thg that n’t be taken away. Correctn (May 22): A prev versn of this story rrectly ntextualized a quote om a 2015 terview wh Kotaku, which Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Tgle is “not gay. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * link is gay icon *
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.
Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
He has also claimed that man-ma chemils uld be makg children gay or transgenr. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
POLYGON PH FALSE NARRATIVE THAT ‘THE LEGEND OF ZELDA’ SERI EXPLOR QUEER THEM, CLAIMS LK IS “A GAY IN”
The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.