Government Apologiz For Super Mar Bros. Gay Luigi Tweet

Contents:

• A GOVERNMENT TWTER ACUNT APOLOGIZ FOR POST ABOUT SUPER MAR BROS. GAY LUIGI
• COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZ FOR GAY LUIGI CONTROVERSY
• A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT TRICKED INTO THKG MAR & LUIGI ARE GAY. UM.
• COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZ FOR GAY LUIGI CONTROVERSY
• LUIGI ISN’T GAY, FAKED IT FOR ATTENTN

A GOVERNMENT TWTER ACUNT APOLOGIZ FOR POST ABOUT SUPER MAR BROS. GAY LUIGI

Screenshot: IllumatnEarlier this week, Colombia’s Mistry of the Interr tweeted, “I hope Luigi is gay” rponse to a tweet that appeared to claim Mar was heterosexual. The tweet was leted, but screenshots rurfaced some time after—wh many cricizg the e of a gay slur.

COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZ FOR GAY LUIGI CONTROVERSY

Whoever ns the ernment partment’s social media acunt issued a sort-of apology on You Should Know About Mar Strikers' Big Free UpdateOffEnglish“We know they weren’t the right words, but we are aware that homophobia kills, ” tweeted the acunt. But what upset a lot of people was the way that the acunt lled Luigi gay. I don’t know what’s worse: Beg outed as a homophobe, or possibly accintally g out of the closet at work before you’re ready.

” God willg, this was jt some queer worker gay-postg about The Super Mar Bros. The Colombian ernment has issued an apology to Ntendo fans everywhere after tweetg out that hop The Super Mar Bros Movie star Luigi is gay. Earlier this week, the official Twter acunt for the Mistry of the Interr Colombia (MInterr) sent out a tweet sayg somethg along the l of, “I hope Luigi is gay, ” though ’s a b more plited than that.

A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT TRICKED INTO THKG MAR & LUIGI ARE GAY. UM.

— Diana Saray Giraldo (@DianaSaray) April 19, 2023 While may appear as though MInterr was simply exprsg s wish for gay Luigi, the translatn shows that the tweet may have been a b more malic. As explaed by Kotaku, “mari, ” a word found the origal tweet, is often ed place of words like “du” or “bro, ” but is also often ed as a homophobic slur. The apology, aga sent out om the ernment’s official Twter acunt, specifilly lls attentn to s e of a homophobic slur but do not acknowledge s wish for Luigi.

Google Translate of the apology tweet follows: “We know wasn’t the words, but we are aware that homophobia kills.

” Sabemos que no fueron las palabras, pero somos nscient que la homofobia mata. Be sure to stay tuned for any updat we might have on Colombia, vio gam, and Luigi, gay or otherwise. Here's somethg that sure lated quickly: neoGAF er sphx noticed that at current, there are an absurd number of Spanish webs that report some variatn of the ia that Mar and Luigi are gay.

COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZ FOR GAY LUIGI CONTROVERSY

As far as I n tell, the earlit thg related to this ms om Ciencia Semal, who, on July 16th, wrote that on July 12th, Sato Iwata, print of Ntendo, spoke of some "vtigatn rults" where players unr 10 years tend to thk that Luigi & Mar are a gay uple stead of simply beg brothers. (For those of you rollg your ey: my time here has tght me to never say somethg is for certa unls I n verify wh absolute certaty) any se, a follow-up article then appeared on July 19th, allegg that Mar creator Shige Miyamoto stated that Super Mar Bros was always tend as an allegory for the gay muny—and, get this, that they weren't brothers, but actualy, gay.

LUIGI ISN’T GAY, FAKED IT FOR ATTENTN

It was a game charged wh the signs of gay culture, and Luigi and Mar were a gay uple tryg to brave a society that rejects them, " Miyamoto supposedly once se go on to say that this premise later changed when the game was brought to an ternatnal market. Then go on show possible "evince" of gay culture the game, like how the flagpole at the end of the levels are phallic symbols and Goombas reprent somethg like that. While may appear as though MInterr was simply exprsg s wish for gay Luigi, the translatn shows that the tweet may have been a b more malic.

Sabemos que no fueron las palabras, pero somos nscient que la homofobia mata.