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.
BLIZZARD CONFIRMS TRACER IS GAY NEW OVERWATCH HOLIDAY COMIC
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!
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.
THE BT REACTNS TO TRACER BEG GAY OVERWATCH
But I also regnize that one gay character is more or ls the bare mimum.
Tracer is gay and that is wonrful.