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Contents:

• MASS EFFECT: LEGENDARY EDN IS A CHANCE TO MAKE AMENDS WH GAY MEN
• IS DIFFICULT TO DO A GAY ROMANCE WH KAIDAN?
• ME3: KAIN AND NOT ASHLY?
• MASS EFFECT ROMANC, BY THE NUMBERS: HOW GAY MAL HAVE BEEN SHAFTED
• IS DIFFICULT TO DO A GAY ROMANCE WH KAIDAN?
• MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDN LETS GAYS BE THEMSELV WH NEW ROMANCE MOD
• LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE

MASS EFFECT: LEGENDARY EDN IS A CHANCE TO MAKE AMENDS WH GAY MEN

Gay Kain really effected me. I'm bias as a gay 20-somethg, but Kain/BroShep jt feels like the non relatnship. But that’s bee Commanr Shepard wasn’t allowed to be a gay man until Mass Effect 3, where Bware fally cid to allow such a thg, retnng Kaidan to a bisexual man, and also cludg Steve Cortez, a gay shuttle pilot who Shepard uld also pursue.

Part of me stggl wh the notn of fixg Mass Effect’s needls omissn of gay romance, jt bee I have bee so attached to that angst-driven dynamic. If you import, select the mod the Mod Library and click Apply AlsoSame-Genr Romanc for LE2 - Allows Tali and Thane to be romanced by both male and female Shepard, fix issu wh imported FemShep/Ashley and MaleShep/Kaidan romanc, and allows other same-genr ntent when Gay Romanc - Adds Miranda and Jack as romance optns for FemShep LE2 & LE3.

IS DIFFICULT TO DO A GAY ROMANCE WH KAIDAN?

If my Commanr Shepard was meant to be an extensn of myself, and if I was gay, I tratgly wonred, why uldn’t I fall love wh this man?

My own Shepard ntued to sponntly romance Liara, first Mass Effect 2's inic bon story mpaign Lair of the Shadow Broker, and then when she returned as a full-time party member Mass Effect third game beme the first the seri to fally offer official gay romanc for male Shepards—Kaidan, who uld return if he survived Virmire, beme a bisexual optn available to female and now male Shepards, jog the Normandy’s new shuttle pilot, Steve Cortez, exclively romanceable by male Shepards. As beneficial a move as was not jt to gay male players, but to bisexual men (a likewise unrserved mory by the seri, and elsewhere), I never tried eher optn myself.

I was gay, and I didn’t irratnally persecute myself as ls than for havg tried to pursue relatnships wh women, eher gam like Mass Effect or real life, only to fd myself romantilly unterted. It was clarified that a relatnship wh the character for gay and bisexual Shepards was never planned until Mass Effect 3, and that, as “ wasn’t tentnal the origal, ” cludg now would go agast Legendary Edn’s tent of beg as te to the source material as be a bisexual romance optn Mass Effect 3, seen here a versn of his romance scene wh a male Commanr Shepard. Screenshot: Bware/EAOne thg that has changed all those years, if not Mass Effect self, is who I am, and how I perceive myself as a gay man.

ME3: KAIN AND NOT ASHLY?

“Existg a world that pretends you don’t, yet sists you take part all the pleasur offers, even if they’re not aimed at you, requir a level of vigilance choice and teractn not required of straight players, ” Kenh Shepard wr the 2019 say To Be Gay Mass Effect Is An Act of Rebelln. “Gettg through Mass Effect 1 and 2 wh your inty tact as a gay man is an act of ristance. As for gay maleKaidanCortez As for gay female TraynorLiara- I know mono genr but hey she got a woman's voice and boobi so close enough?

Ashly Williams is not a gay romance optn for Femshep. Thg is Kain n be gay/bi, this strik me as odd that Kain and Ashly are like unterparts, they both share the same role the story,.

What the fuck man, 2 romance threads, and one a gay one? In-game explanatn: Ashley simply isn't gay.

MASS EFFECT ROMANC, BY THE NUMBERS: HOW GAY MAL HAVE BEEN SHAFTED

Meta explanatn: The amount of people beggg for a gay romance possibily wh Kaidan before ME3's release was massive.

So bi and homosexualy won't be on her personal agenda anyways.

IS DIFFICULT TO DO A GAY ROMANCE WH KAIDAN?

I thought the optns for a gay male were pretty not a good way.

If you're a gay MaleShep you n't go all Capta Kirk and shack up wh the aliens. There was no forhadowg or ditn he was gay before and I hated bee was so out of character.

Intertg pot - I thk I remember readg somethg about there beg no stigma to beg gay the Mass Effect Universe at all. Especially sce I don't fd the new romance optns flhed out enough - except for Cortez perhaps, but I didn't have me no GayShep, so I uldn't say for sure. It jt impli gay/bi people LOVE ALL MEN.

MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDN LETS GAYS BE THEMSELV WH NEW ROMANCE MOD

It impli gay/bi men will be attracted to any type of man jt to get sex/a relatnship.

Bee not everyone the world is gay? “Especially sce, for example, you n’t get the full Paramour achievement Legendary Edn if you play a strictly gay male Shepard. I know there are petns to get BWare to add those romanc for Mass Effect 2 and Kaidan’s gay romance [the first] Mass Effect, and while ’s a shame that don’t look like that’s gog to end up happeng, I n say that wh our improved Mass Effect 2 d moddg potential, pl the fact that all of the uned same-sex romance voiceover is still prent Legendary Edn’s fil, the mods are not jt on the table - they’re pretty much certa to be ma.

He add, “So PC Gaymers n rejoice (that was a terrible joke, don’t prt that, lmao). Comg to Bware’s recent release of s beloved sci-fi saga Mass Effect Mass Effect: Legendary Edn, I knew that I wanted to re-experience the vio gam’ journey a way I had tried and failed to as a young teenager: to st my Commanr Shepard as a proud, gay man.

LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE

And so, here was my gay ass, nonted by a challenge: ignore Mass Effect’s ph to have you hook up wh one (or more) of your squadmat over the urse of the first two gam, until I uld pursue Kaidan as a romantic optn Mass Effect 3. To play Mass Effect as a story where Commanr Shepard is explicly a gay, male hero is not jt to play the wag game, but to ph back agast the seri’ almost nstant heterosexual asslt on your sens.