Why We Need More Gay Characters In Vio Gam - IGN

Contents:

• THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
• PRS A, BE GAY: LGBTQ REPRENTATN VIO GAM
• VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
• GAY MEN VIO GAM
• WHY WE NEED MORE GAY CHARACTERS IN VIO GAM
• VIO GAME CHARACTERS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY

THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM

Dorian is proud of who he is, both as a gay man and as a Tevter mage. All forms of popular culture have taken awhile to clu more LGBTQ characters, but gam pecially have ed gay and transgenr characters as punchl for a long while now, and only now are we startg to see that shift earnt. As a rult, we still have almost no lead characters gam that are gay outsi of the die scene.

I’ve thought back to the gam I’ve played the last few years, and there have been a number of gay characters that have stood out to me one way or another. This won’t be a perfect list, and the gay game characters on may have their own problems wh trop or stereotyp, but I like them all for different reasons.

The fact that Kung J is gay is referenced only a few l of dialogue, and fightg gam, more than most, tend to e trop when cludg trans, gay or jt effemate fighters. Borrlands 2 has a few gay/bi characters, cludg Sir Hammerlock (who is gay) and Mad Moxxxi (who is bi) but I like the way the game snuck a few l to show that Ty Ta is actually gay herself. The Last of Us had a small st, but clud actually two gay characters, one beg Bill, whom you meet the ma game.

PRS A, BE GAY: LGBTQ REPRENTATN VIO GAM

But aga, early on we ran to this problem where many characters were only gay/bi if you wanted them to be.

That changed by Mass Effect 3 when the game started troducg characters that were permanently straight or permanently gay, no matter the genr/preferenc of your Shepard. As a male Shepard, you n romance him, and that plotle lead to the famo “Mass Effect Gay Sex Scene” which was more or ls shirtls cuddlg. I will apologize for not playg more Dragon Age, as I know there are a number of gay characters I uld clu here.

Jedi aren’t supposed to love, but they n still have preferenc, and Juhani was gay an era where few vio game (or Star Wars) characters were. There are too many gam to unt at this pot that allow your character to be gay, but as RPGs evolved, one aspect of signg your character meant that you uld also pursue the orientatn of your choice. In many gam that means you n romance both male and female characters, but the pot is that gam like Fable, Fallout, Mass Effect, Sats Row, Dragon Age and so on, you n choose to be gay the entire time, if you want.

VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS

So while inic game hero om Mar to Metroid to Kratos to Lara Croft will always be straight, your hero a number of AAA gam n technilly be gay, if that’s your sire. I’m sure some also have var problems as to why some of the characters may not be the “bt” gay characters for one reason or another.

John Carey disvers Hickman fact equented a Wt Hollywood gay bar, the Short Stop, and was secretly a McCormackAnother gay rpse who driv the plot, Danny McCormack is the tranged son of Orn Conspiracy ma character Devl McCormack, who vtigat his son's murr and disvers the tth about his Danny's sexualy when he enunters his late son's boyiend Steve Kffman -- who also gets murred. While the character's sexualy is never ma explic, the clear symbolism of lynthropy and homosexualy -- never md that tle -- bleeds through the CraigPhantasmagoria 2, a mature-themed and largely fotten Sierra adventure game, happens to feature the first playable vio game character who is not explicly heterosexual.

GAY MEN VIO GAM

Creator Neil Dckman has nfirmed the character is gay, even though when she was created as a 14-year-old a post-apolyptic world, that wasn't necsarily planned. Anthony "Gay Tony" PrceAs his nickname dit, the reigng kg of Liberty Cy nightlife the Grand Theft Auto anchise ed lik dus.

WHY WE NEED MORE GAY CHARACTERS IN VIO GAM

Based part on gay Stud 54 -proprietor Steve Rubell, Gay Tony mak his first appearance GTA IV and eventually spir his own downloadable ntent package, The Ballad of Gay TatsumiPersona 4's Kanji is never explicly revealed as gay over the urse of the game, but given his flamboyant personaly, his fay backstory, and a narrative climax that revolv around acceptg himself for who he is, there are few other nclns to draw. "There's no official answer" to the qutn of Kanji's sexualy, acrdg to veloper Yu Namba, but Shadow Kanji sure seems gay. But rather than attag that tend (and pletely patronizg toward women) rult, Rupert stead reveals himself as gay.

VIO GAME CHARACTERS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY

Jordan Thomas, the game's narrative director, says Weir is a closeted gay man alg wh world lears a nservative time. EagleOK, so the gay English butler may seem a b of a cliche, but add a penchant for stick-fightg martial arts and you have a gaymer in on your hands.