Shock: Thompson Gog After Bully's Supposed "Gay Sexual Content" | WIRED

Contents:

• SHOCK: THOMPSON GOG AFTER <CE>BULLY</CE>'S SUPPOSED "GAY SEXUAL CONTENT"
• BULLY'S GAY SMOOCHI GO QUIETLY ACCEPTED BY GAMG MASTREAM
• GOSSIP GIRL STAR CONNOR PAOLO’S WIKI, DATG BOYIEND, GAY, B

SHOCK: THOMPSON GOG AFTER <CE>BULLY</CE>'S SUPPOSED "GAY SEXUAL CONTENT"

Speakg of gay gamers, I jt stumbled onto a fantastic post on Joystiq by one Bonnie Ruberg, who pots out rrectly that the objectns to Bully’s same-sex smoochery have been strangely muted on the home now, we all know about Jimmy Hopks' boy-on-boy kissg adventur. A few voic have leapt out predictably outraged prott but, for the most part, the gamg world has been strangely acceptg of Jimmy's bi-cursy – surprisg a muny where a normal eveng on Halo 2 (you know 's happened to you) ually clus watchg a preteen wh a Xbox Live headset shoot ammo to your lifels rpse while shoutg, "You're ad, homo!

Is bee we all fought so hard for Bully when was only on the block for supposed butchery, that even the homophob are prepared to fend the game, e hell or high hormon? But gay gamers have disvered an addnal facet to the game that reveals s creators may have thought about the latent homosexual tennci of those who bully more than you thought.

Of urse, GayGamer's versn has Jimmy gog back for sends -- nope, thirds -- wa, game is rated T and the box clearly stat that there are "sexual them. Ambiguoly Gay: Pete is acced of homoerotic leangs, such as when Gary asks him if he's watchg the swim team for the girls or boys (and the only answer he n mter is a lame "shut up"), and when he mak a really awkward joke about Jimmy beg a male stripper. Vance is sometim thought to be fully gay, but he n ocsnally be seen makg out wh girls and has a uple hard to tch l of dialogue about hangg out wh them.

BULLY'S GAY SMOOCHI GO QUIETLY ACCEPTED BY GAMG MASTREAM

Straight Gay: Some boys are nonilly bisexual, but almost none of them (exceptns beg Corneli and Gord) display any mp tras nor blatant attractn to boys. Faye Mishna and others, Bullyg of Lbian and Gay Youth: A Qualative Invtigatn, The Brish Journal of Social Work, Volume 39, Issue 8, December 2009, Pag 1598–1614,.

The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectiv of service provirs and youth advot workg wh lbian and gay muni orr to crease unrstandg of bullyg of lbian and gay youth.

In this paper, we report on a qualative vtigatn of bullyg om the perspectiv of service provirs and youth advot workg wh lbian- and gay-intified youth. Dpe acknowledgment that societal attus such as homophobia foster bullyg (Clarke and Kiseli, 1997), the preponrance of bullyg rearch neher addrs nor acknowledg sexual orientatn as a possible factor (Poteat and Espelage, 2005). Neverthels, vtigatns foced on life experienc of lbian, gay and bisexual youth suggt that up to 84 per cent report verbal harassment (Poteat and Espelage, 2005), a quarter report physil harassment (Elze, 2003; Pilkgton and D'Augelli, 1995), and up to 70 per cent experience problems school due to prejudice and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn (Remafedi, 1987; Saewyc et al., 2007; Telljohann and Price, 1993).

GOSSIP GIRL STAR CONNOR PAOLO’S WIKI, DATG BOYIEND, GAY, B

Victimizatn of lbian and gay youth has been intified across elementary (Solomon, 2004), high-school (Rob et al., 2002; Thurlow, 2001; Williams et al., 2005) and universy (Janoff, 2005) settgs. Moreover, lbian and gay youth often hear rogatory homophobic ments and labels directed towards dividuals regardls of their sexual orientatn (Poteat and Espelage, 2005).

Lbian and gay youth report that tors often did not tervene, even when they wnsed harassment of stunts perceived to be gay or lbian (Elze, 2003; Ryan and Rivers, 2003; Warwich et al., 2001).