‘Overwatch’ Soldier: 76: How Homophobia Tanked the Populary of the Gay Character | Them

Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• SOLDIER 76 SEXUALY: ‘OVERWATCH’ CHARACTER CONFIRMED AS CANONILLY GAY
• HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
• Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay.

Both intify as gay. Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship. Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier.

He’s gay. In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else. Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season?

While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story. Image via Blizzard Entertament Soldier: 76 is a gay man, as nfirmed by the 2019 short story Bastet. The reveal that Soldier: 76 was gay Bastet marked the ex-Overwatch manr as the game’s send nfirmed LGBTQ hero.

SOLDIER 76 SEXUALY: ‘OVERWATCH’ CHARACTER CONFIRMED AS CANONILLY GAY

He also remas the only gay man on the st as of now, although flirty teractns between Lifeweaver and other hero such as Baptiste uld lead to addnal revelatns on character sexuali g the near future.

Soldier 76 sexualy is a topic of hot gossip as of now as the creators cid to announce the character as nonilly gay. There has been official nfirmatn about soldier 76 sexualy, as the creators have said the character is gay. It has been officially nfirmed that he is nonilly gay.

Acrdg to the creators, the character is nonilly gay, and he is love wh Vcent.

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character.

Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL

Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game. As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement. After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game.

“They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse. Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League.

And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well. It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men. “Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men, ” Nseler wrote.