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Contents:

• HOW I REALIZED MY DRAGON AGE: INQUISN CHARACTER IS GAY
• BWARE ANNOUNC THE FIRST EXCLIVELY GAY CHARACTER ‘DRAGON AGE’
• HOW I REALISED MY DRAGON AGE: INQUISN CHARACTER IS GAY
• DRAGON AGE: INQUISN HAS STRAIGHT, BISEXUAL, AND GAY ROMANC BEE THEY TELL DIFFERENT STORI, BWARE SAYS
• DRAGON AGE: INQUISN GAY SEX SCENE
• CAN YOU BE GAY DRAGON AGE: ORIGS?
• DRAGON AGE: INQUISN GAY ROMANC CONTROVERSY
• MY BOYIEND DRAGON AGE: INQUISN BROKE MY HEART WHEN HE TOLD ME HE WAS GAY
• DRAGON AGE: INQUISN TO CLU BWARE'S FIRST "FULLY GAY" MALE PARTY MEMBER
• DRAGON AGE: INQUISN TO FEATURE BWARE'S FIRST 'FULLY GAY' MALE
• ‘DRAGON AGE: INQUISN’: GAY CHARACTER CONTROVERSY CS BWARE WRER TO RPOND

HOW I REALIZED MY DRAGON AGE: INQUISN CHARACTER IS GAY

Today's Gay Liberatn Movement n trace s roots directly to the Stonewall rts on June 28, 1969. Soon after, the Gay Liberatn Front was formed, jog the many gay activist anizatns that had been sprgg up prev s. Picts what some scholars have terpreted as homosexual love scen, one of the first sets of skeletal remas of an LGBTQ+ person was a body thought to be a transgenr woman disvered 2011.

Although the se is lled the Tomb of the Two Brothers, and there is bate as to s signifince, many historians have terpreted as evince of early gay relatnships. At this time, laws around homosexualy were also formed—among them that gay prostutn would be legal, but taxed.

In 1478, the Spanish Inquisn was tablished, which rulted the stong and stratn of many gays and lbians, dubbed "sodom" at the time. In 1811, the Netherlands was the first major European untry of the 19th century to crimalize homosexualy. By ntrast, Rsia, Poland, and Germany enacted new laws agast gay and lbian activy.

BWARE ANNOUNC THE FIRST EXCLIVELY GAY CHARACTER ‘DRAGON AGE’

Magn Hirschfeld was a German physician who spent most of his reer studyg sexualy wh a foc on homosexualy. He beme a champn for gay rights and -found the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, the world's first gay rights anizatn.

Beg both Jewish and gay, he was equently targeted his home untry, yet he ntued his work. He said he beme terted activism after observg many of his gay patients who died by suici.

A ntemporary of Magn Hirschfeld's, Emma Goldman was an Amerin femist and anarchist who served as an early ally to gay rights activism. In a letter to Hirschfeld, she said: "It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are ught a world which shows so ltle unrstandg for homosexuals and is so crassly different to the var gradatns and variatns of genr and their great signifince life.

HOW I REALISED MY DRAGON AGE: INQUISN CHARACTER IS GAY

Two years after her affirmatn surgery, the Nazis burned the library of the Instute and began sendg homosexuals to ncentratn mps.

Amelia Earhart and openly gay reporter Lorena Hickok are jt two of the women wh whom former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was mored to have had closeted affairs, the latter wh whom she exchanged more than 3, 300 letters over a 30-year perd; Roosevelt and Hickok allegedly began an affair om 1932 to 1938.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN HAS STRAIGHT, BISEXUAL, AND GAY ROMANC BEE THEY TELL DIFFERENT STORI, BWARE SAYS

There has been extensive speculatn about the former first lady's sexualy over the years, however, some have argued 's irrelevant when discsg her ntributn to the gay rights movement, particularly given her posn of power.

"[Roosevelt] did more than almost anyone the pre-Stonewall era to mol acceptance of gay relatnships—and she did the Whe Hoe, " wrote Marc Peyser for the Huffgton Post. In 1936, Spanish police raid the Granada home of Feri García Lor, a famo poet they scribed as a socialist prone to "homosexual and abnormal practic. When blogist Aled Ksey published "Sexual Behavr the Human Male" 1948, he asserted that approximately 37% of men at the time had engaged homosexual activi at least once.

"Durg the Twentieth Century, no one dividual did more to brg homosexualy to the public fom than Aled Charl Ksey, " wrote Jam Alan Branch, profsor of Christian ethics at Midwtern Baptist Theologil Semary. "Prr to Ksey, people were generally nsired to be eher heterosexual or homosexual.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN GAY SEX SCENE

Instead of this bary approach, Ksey saw sexual behavr on a ntuum which rarely scribed dividuals as eher strictly homosexual or heterosexual. What began as a safe space for women to meet whout the risk of police raids at gay bars quickly morphed to a full-blown polil anizatn that created other polil offshoots cludg The Ladr—the first natnally distributed lbian publitn—which enuraged women to "take off their masks.

Jam Baldw published "Go Tell It on the Mounta" 1956, offerg the world a novel that was "pivotal Amerin gay lerature, " acrdg to many crics. Although the theme of homosexualy is never outrightly exprsed, the subtext is hard to miss. Supreme Court se that volved gay rights—and won, markg a triumphant moment for the emergg liberatn movement.

The lg occurred 1958 when the high urt overturned a feral district urt's cisn to label gay magaze ONE: The Homosexual Magaze as "obscene" and ban om beg distributed through the Uned Stat Postal Service.

CAN YOU BE GAY DRAGON AGE: ORIGS?

Although 's hard to say for sure given the burgeong nature of the gay rights movement at the time, the protts outsi the U. Army's Whehall Street ductn center 1964 are generally nsired to be the first public monstratns for gay rights.

The monstratns occurred after the nfintialy of a gay man's draft rerd was broached, promptg an activist named Randy Wicker to anize the prott to speak out agast the ary's anti-gay polici. In 1965, a group of young people San Francis got together to create the Vanguard, the untry's first gay liberatn anizatn. When the New York State Liquor Authory banned bartenrs om servg alhol to gay people, an activist group lled the Mattache Society rpond 1966.

"The importance of this, I thk, was that until this time gay people had never really fought back, " said Dick Lesch, head of the New York Mattache Society at the time. After pla-clothed police officers raid the Black Cat Tavern Los Angel on New Year's Day 1967, beatg up staff and patrons alike, a group of gay rights prottors began monstratg out ont. I didn't sign my character to be gay, but then 's never really a choice, and when I realized this I actually felt as if he'd e out to me, his creator.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN GAY ROMANC CONTROVERSY

As I ntue tryg to save the world the latt (and possibly greatt) Dragon Age game, liverg people's letters and chasg Dorian's well-mtached tail, I'm not steppg to the game world self, but to the sho of a gay man who already liv there. [Spoilers All]How satisfied are you wh the var gay romance optns the three current Dragon Age gam?

(Dragon Age 2) Anrs, Bisexual Male (Dragon Age 2) Fenris, Bisexual Male (Dragon Age 2) Isabela, Bisexual Female (Dragon Age 2) Merrill, Bisexual Female (Dragon Age: Inquisn) Dorian, Gay Male (Dragon Age: Inquisn) Sera, Lbian Female (Dragon Age: Inquisn) Iron Bull, Bisexual Male (Dragon Age: Inquisn) Josephe, Bisexual Female.

David Gair, the lead wrer on the anchise at veloper BWare, has shared that the newt game the seri, Dragon Age: Inquisn, will feature the anchise’s first gay character.

MY BOYIEND DRAGON AGE: INQUISN BROKE MY HEART WHEN HE TOLD ME HE WAS GAY

Dorian, troduced on the Dragon Age: Inquisn webse on Friday, is wrten as a gay character and will be a romance optn exclively for male protagonists. In Dragon Age: Origs, released 2009, players uld make the ma character gay, straight, or bisexual by virtue of which non-player character or pann the player chose to romance. I knew the send I saw him, even though took me by surprise: that person is Dorian and my Herald of Andraste is gay.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN TO CLU BWARE'S FIRST "FULLY GAY" MALE PARTY MEMBER

I didn’t sign my character to be gay, but then ’s never really a choice, and when I realised this I actually felt as if he’d e out to me, his creator. As I ntue tryg to save the world the latt (and possibly greatt) Dragon Age game, liverg people’s letters and chasg Dorian’s well-motached tail, I’m not steppg to the game world self, but to the sho of a gay man who already liv there.

Or the weird motache gay du – arent all his jok funny and totaly appropriate?

Sure, thats good for many people, but for those who still thk that relatnships are srs bs, the lack of choice is nearly sultg pared to the Gay, Bi, Inter-special romanc. Hontly I’m not 100% across the equency of gay/bi relatnships gam, but I don’t thk that I’m gog out on a limb when I say that there are almost certaly vastly fewer out there currently than there are straight relatnships.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN TO FEATURE BWARE'S FIRST 'FULLY GAY' MALE

This game out, which do the reverse of the norm (not only beg clive but actually havg more optns for gay/bi characters than for straight), and you e out and bag like they’ve done you a personal disservice, sentially bee you’re straight and you haven’t been tered for the manner you feel acctomed to.

Anyway, on the pl si, hopefully you n now beg to unrstand how i’d image many gay/bi/trans people feel when they play gam which have no optns for them at all. It’s not all sunshe and rabows for GLBTI gamers eher though… those lookg for a Male/Male relatnship are given the choice of a flamboyant stereotypil gay character or a sado masochist who’s to BDSM two extrem of the spectm that don’t su everyone. (Like the sophomoric exampl who nsir weird for a guy to play a girl an MMO, or thk playg a gay vio game character is a sign of beg closeted yourself.

‘DRAGON AGE: INQUISN’: GAY CHARACTER CONTROVERSY CS BWARE WRER TO RPOND

Dragon Age: Inquisn will have straight, bisexual, and gay character romanc bee they each tell different stori, BWare has wrer for the Dragon Age seri David Gair ma the ments durg BWare’s GaymerX2 panel last week tled Buildg a Better Romance. “So we are gog to have straight romanc, alongsi bisexual romanc, alongsi gay romanc. I also highly remend BWare’s other GaymerX2 panel, Freakg out the Neighbors, about how and why gam should be more Age Inquisn lnch October 7 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStatn 3, PlayStatn 4, and PC.