Ctom PS4 Dubbed "GayStatn 4" Auctned for $4,000 To Support LGBT Group - GameSpot

Contents:

• PLAYSTATN SAY ‘GAY RIGHTS!’ AND FALLY ADD A DITED LGBT+ SECTN TO THEIR ONLE STORE
• SURVEY: ARE GAYMERS MORE INTO PLAYSTATN OR XBOX?
• THE VIO GAME PANI ARE ALL SCREAMG ‘GAY RIGHTS’ THIS JUNE – AND WE LOVE TO SEE
• HOW GAMG’S BREAKOUT GAY CHARACTER CAME TO BE
• CTOM PS4 DUBBED "GAYSTATN EDN" UP FOR AUCTN TO SUPPORT LGBT GROUP
• HHW GAMG: BLOCBOY JB SAYS PLAYSTATN IS “FOR THE GAYS” BECUASE IT “GOT PRI COLORS” TWTER SAYS HUH?
• BLOCBOY JB GETS CALLED OUT FOR SAYG PLAYSTATN IS “FOR THE GAYS”
• WHY WE NEED MORE GAY CHARACTERS IN VIO GAM
• CTOM PS4 DUBBED "GAYSTATN 4" AUCTNED FOR $4,000 TO SUPPORT LGBT GROUP

PLAYSTATN SAY ‘GAY RIGHTS!’ AND FALLY ADD A DITED LGBT+ SECTN TO THEIR ONLE STORE

Of the 2, 000 LGBTQ+ people over the age of 13 surveyed, 40% intify as gay or lbian, 50% intify as bisexual, and 10% intify as transgenr or non-bary. RELATED | Assass's Creed: Valhalla' Has a Gay Sex Scene Between Two Vikgs.

You’ll meet a st of wonrful, quirky characters and perhaps wns a love story between a fish woman and a dosr… Yeah, ’s pretty gay like that. For more gamg news, follow Gaymeo on Facebook.

SURVEY: ARE GAYMERS MORE INTO PLAYSTATN OR XBOX?

Out of the 2, 000 LGBTQ gamers over the age of 13, 40% intified as gay or lbian, 50% intify as bisexual, and 10% intify as transgenr or non-bary. What are your thoughts on all this data, gaymers? Below, we’ve llated how some gamg pani are choosg to gay “gay rights!

Bethda have updated to rabows for their multiple Twter acunts om around the world, well, at least untri were homosexualy is legal. But there’s one gamg character revealed the last 12 months whose homosexualy clearly marks a big step forward for the cln of diverse characters the tl we play.

THE VIO GAME PANI ARE ALL SCREAMG ‘GAY RIGHTS’ THIS JUNE – AND WE LOVE TO SEE

In 2003, the stud released Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and, , troduced the first known gay character the Star Wars universe the form of Juhani, a female character who uld romance female players. In the realm of gamg, to say nothg of society as a whole, we've seen a higher number of lbian relatnships rather than those between two men - certaly there are a disproportnate number of gam that feature stanc of lbianism wh varyg levels of pth, pared wh few which do the same for guy-on-guy relatns - but regardls, perhaps this explas why the stud’s follow-up tl ntued to champn same-sex relatnships the form of bisexualy and ntue not to offer an out-gay male party member.

So wasn’t until Dragon Age: Inquisn that the veloper add what Gair referred to as s first “fully gay” male character a blog post; a throwaway term which he stantly me unr fire for om both LGBT activists and those who don’t support gay rights alike. “The post’s purpose was to announce Dorian’s existence, not to announce that he was gay, and yet felt awkward to talk around that fact when ma up an important part – if not the only important part – of who he is, ” he says.

“I do wish now that I hadn’t said that he was ‘fully gay’. I knew there was a signifint part of the dience who believed that we’d already had gay characters the seri, and I had no tentn of tryg to te them on the difference between bisexuals and homosexuals; still, I should also have known that others uld terpret what I said as a ment on bisexualy self. There’s a way for stereotyp to be harmful, no qutn, but I’ve never found agreement even wh the gay muny as to what a ‘proper’ reprentatn of a gay character should be.

HOW GAMG’S BREAKOUT GAY CHARACTER CAME TO BE

Of urse, this isn’t necsarily an experience that’ll speak to all gay people – fantastil elements asi – and an issue that often up when LGBT characters are troduced to gam is whether they’re only there to tick a box or not, orr to create a shallow faça of clivy. When asked whether he’d class Dorian as a “gay character” who perhaps reli too heavily on stereotyp, or stead as a more nuanced “character who happens to be gay”, Gair shar his view that ’s not always as easy a distctn as many assume.

CTOM PS4 DUBBED "GAYSTATN EDN" UP FOR AUCTN TO SUPPORT LGBT GROUP

“What nstut a gay stereotype is a difficult subject, ” Gair m.

HHW GAMG: BLOCBOY JB SAYS PLAYSTATN IS “FOR THE GAYS” BECUASE IT “GOT PRI COLORS” TWTER SAYS HUH?

“Certaly there’s a way for stereotyp to be harmful, no qutn, but I’ve never found agreement even wh the gay muny as to what a ‘proper’ reprentatn of a gay character should be. Some suggt that gay male characters mt chew all characteristics that uld be scribed as ‘too overt’: they nnot be effemate, nnot be stylish, and certaly nnot be sexual whout someone accg them of beg a harmful stereotype.

Are they not the ‘right’ type of gay?

BLOCBOY JB GETS CALLED OUT FOR SAYG PLAYSTATN IS “FOR THE GAYS”

Are gay male characters required to be pletely straight-actg and straight-lookg orr to be prentable for public nsumptn? Mt they also avoid any ‘negative’ characteristic which uld be nsted as a trope or some kd of mentary on gay people at large?

WHY WE NEED MORE GAY CHARACTERS IN VIO GAM

You may argue player characters have been able to be gay BWare gam before now, and ’s te.

CTOM PS4 DUBBED "GAYSTATN 4" AUCTNED FOR $4,000 TO SUPPORT LGBT GROUP

But there’s a big difference between a gay player character and Dorian. Instead, relatable characters are begng to be exorably woven to the gam we marks one of the first tim a gay male gamer n fd himself already a fictnal world, stead of puttg themselv . A ctom-ma PlayStatn 4 is beg ctned off this week to support the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Rights (RFSL).

The system is lled the "Gaystatn edn, " and the ctn for the nsole has already eclipsed $2, 000.