Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fanse, took time to s down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversy our favore team based shooter.
Contents:
- OUR THOUGHTS ON OVERWATCH'S TRACER BEG GAY
- BLIZZARD CONFIRMS TRACER IS GAY NEW OVERWATCH HOLIDAY COMIC
- THE BT REACTNS TO TRACER BEG GAY OVERWATCH
OUR THOUGHTS ON OVERWATCH'S TRACER BEG GAY
Soldier 76 – Gay. Much like Tracer, Soldier 76 was revealed to be gay a medium outsi of the official Overwatch game.
Both intify as gay. Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Heather: I thk they’ve been tellg about gay characters sce Grayson: They’ve hted at this specific reveal for months.
I mean, I uld be super crass and poke at the panel layout: we cut to Tracer talkg to someone out of ame and then a whole ame of ‘look, ’s another woman’ as a fe narrative beat, and then we build to a kiss and cut away aga, closg out the brief arc as a story about Tracer beg gay. There’s a fely a ‘surprise, gay!
BLIZZARD CONFIRMS TRACER IS GAY NEW OVERWATCH HOLIDAY COMIC
But I do agree that there’s an element of, “surprise, gay! I was super aaid that the “surprise, gay! For me, I’m happy to give props to velopers who thk about how I’ll feel as a female I almost ma a GIF today of scrollg down the Tumblr tag for Tracer—100% of is “Tracer is gay and she saved my crops and cleared my sk.
But I also regnize that one gay character is more or ls the bare mimum. Tracer is gay and that is wonrful.
Here’s a du that’s fely gay, and embedd gay culture, but his problems don’t revolve around beg gay and datg. Soldier 76 (Gay).
THE BT REACTNS TO TRACER BEG GAY OVERWATCH
Overwatch 2’s rint veteran is gay, though not many people know .
Soldier 76 was nfirmed to be gay a few years after the game’s release, and while he isn’t as well regnized as Tracer, many fans were pleased at the announcement.