Contents:
- VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
- DN ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FAL FANTASY 16 CHARACTER, GAY REPRENTATN, AND MORE
VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
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He wrote that Soldier: 76 had been a romantic relatnship wh another man and intified as gay. Though Soldier: 76 had prevly been assumed by most to be straight, Tracer had been openly gay sce the game was published.
DN ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FAL FANTASY 16 CHARACTER, GAY REPRENTATN, AND MORE
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“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.