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MEET THE GAYMERS: WHY QUEER REPRENTATN IS EXPLODG VIO GAM

Gam wh LGBTQ+ them and characters. Inclus gay, lbian, bi, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgenr, polyamoro, non-bary, and others. * queer characters video games *

Gay Tony (Grand Theft Auto). In 2009, Rockstar Gam released The Ballad of Gay Tony, a GTA4 expansn pack about a dg-addled nightclub owner. Overly hetero bros need not worry about playg gay, though: players actually ntrol the part of Tony’s straight bodyguard.

In a post-apolyptic world, hero Joel and Ellie enter the booby-trapped town of Lln, which is n by a paranoid gay man named Bill. The character was noted by GLAAD for s pictn of a gay man as a regular person, albe a paranoid one trapped a nightmarish hellspe.

Alvane is revealed to be gay the third chapter, released this past summer. The Legend of GayBla.

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