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dFnJSL">Courty of Pillow Fight</div><div class="GallerySliCaptnPreHearOneWrapper-eNQNbj ivThYP"><span data-ttid="GallerySliCaptnPreHearOne" class="GallerySliCaptnPreHearOne-vAlI dmCbya">05</span></div><h2 id="629a2576978ad48e679e4473" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ GallerySliCaptnHed-fiZQOl iUEiRd hThnoT iylNym"><span class="GallerySliCaptnHedText-iqjOmM jwPuvZ">Ship Self</span></h2><div class="GallerySliCaptnBrandAndName-loIcbH byXzpO">Heaven Will Be Me</div><div data-ttid="GallerySliCaptnDekContaer" class="GallerySliCaptnDekContaer-hLUdt gSWuis"><div class="GallerySliCaptnDek-cXnbPe jmxZhW"><div><p><a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Heaven Will Be Me</em></a> is a queer exploratn of transhumanism. You play as one of three mecha pilots who have a plited, terwoven history, and their allegianc lie wh petg factns. I don’t want to give too much of the plot away, but the sci-fi visual novel om <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Worst Girl Gam</a> revolv around msy romanc and mighty mach.</p></div></div><div class="GallerySliCaptnOffers-fsTPbf gmClBA"><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$15atSteamStore(PC)"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="629a2576978ad48e679e4473" aria-label="$15 at Steam Store (PC)" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Steam Store (PC)" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ fhIjxp jMbrrT button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG button__label"><span>$15</span> at Steam Store (PC)</span></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></figptn></figure></div></div></li><li class="gallery__slis__sli" id="629a26949900bdf8e7996064"><div><div class="GallerySliWrapper-yxPsh bcvWFn" data-event-boundary="click" data--view="{"pattern":"GallerySli","variatn":"GallerySli.ItemLeftCaptnAboveMultipleButtons"}" data-event-click="{"pattern":"GallerySli","variatn":"GallerySli.ItemLeftCaptnAboveMultipleButtons"}" orientatn="landspe" data-ttid="GallerySliWrapper"><figure class="GallerySliFigure-jhDfjI bGQGmP"><div orientatn="landspe" class="GallerySliAssetWrapper-jGbftJ jqUBFt"><div class="GallerySliAssetContaer-hwdsAZ gNfA-dy"><div class="GallerySliAssetContaerInner-BTnef fyLCFI"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Steam Store (PC)" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd kZoQA-D jSvUDd bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset GallerySliRponsiveAsset-bXKMLC lluiXZ GallerySliRponsiveAsset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa GallerySliRponsiveAsset-bXKMLC lluiXZ GallerySliRponsiveAsset rponsive-image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hfOGuX"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 800w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w, 2580w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Screenshot of Tell Me Why vio game featurg character holdg out his arms and lookg toward the sun" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></div></div></picture></span></a></div></div></div><figptn class="GallerySliFigCaptnWrapper-QgqEb iTKugz GallerySliCaptnWrapper-cVIrXn gmZcZa"><div class="GallerySliFigCaptn-dOeyTg eOwlTz"><div class="GallerySliCaptnCredWrapper-houOem dFnJSL">Photograph: Xbox Game Studs</div><div class="GallerySliCaptnPreHearOneWrapper-eNQNbj ivThYP"><span data-ttid="GallerySliCaptnPreHearOne" class="GallerySliCaptnPreHearOne-vAlI dmCbya">06</span></div><h2 id="629a26949900bdf8e7996064" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ GallerySliCaptnHed-fiZQOl iUEiRd hThnoT iylNym"><span class="GallerySliCaptnHedText-iqjOmM jwPuvZ">Procsg Trma</span></h2><div class="GallerySliCaptnBrandAndName-loIcbH byXzpO">Tell Me Why</div><div data-ttid="GallerySliCaptnDekContaer" class="GallerySliCaptnDekContaer-hLUdt gSWuis"><div class="GallerySliCaptnDek-cXnbPe jmxZhW"><div><p>From French veloper Dontnod, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Tell Me Why</em></a> featur the story of a trans man rennectg wh his tw sister ral Alaska. 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MEET THE GAYMERS: WHY QUEER REPRENTATN IS EXPLODG VIO GAM

The LGBT muny is startg to be reprented mastream films and televisn seri – but are there any gay vio game characters? Fd out at Aroundmen. * is gaming gay *

This ronat wh what game signer Anna Anthropy lls “the gay button”, which is the ia that such reprentatns n be turned on or off at the whim of the player. If the player selects the rrect seri of qutns, is revealed that the hunter is gay.

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.

VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS

But this is the first -person Gaymg awards, an event that celebrat queer reprentatn vio gam, and the huge and ever-growg queer muny that plays might not be what some people would thk of as the gamg dience, but the fact is that jt about everybody plays gam now – two-thirds of all Amerins, to pluck jt one stat – and of urse, queer people have always been part of that muny. A seri like Mae Mart’s Feel Good, about a formerly straight-prentg bi woman her first relatnship wh a non-bary queer person, did not exist 1999; neher did a game like Life is Strange: Te Colors, a small-town mystery about a bisexual psychic, which picked up three aclas at the Gaymg awards. The cisn was ma durg the origal Sims’ velopment the late 90s to remove same-sex romantic teractns between characters, but they were restated by a programmer named Patrick J Barrett III – himself a gay man – who was workg om an old sign document that ma no mentn of that cisn.

IS GAMG BEG GAY?

After two female Sims went off-script at a weddg durg a live mo of the game 1999 and started passnately makg out ont of a roomful of journalists, velopers at Maxis were wag for the sus at publisher EA to mand a change – but never happened, and so The Sims beme one of the first gam to portray homosexualy and days, the velopers workg on The Sims 4 at Maxis are much more liberately queer- and trans-clive, terg to one of the most diverse player muni vio gam. “I’m an openly gay man workg the gam dtry, so for me I have a vted tert greater cln not jt the gam we play, but those who make gam, ” says John Faciane, associate producer at Maxis, the Sims’ veloper.

“It is an art form that speaks to a lot of different people and backgrounds, and the more we clu all those people, the better is … A big reason that I felt fortable to e out when I did, even though I have a wonrful, supportive, lovg fay, was seeg reprentatn of gay men wh gam – knowg that there were other people out there like me.

THE ‘GAY BUTTON’: WHERE BISEXUALY AND GAMG CROSS

”Asi om reprentatn wh gam themselv, the way that muni gather around gam has also been a drivg factor changg the state of play: queer gamers – or gaymers, as many playfully intify – are more visible too.

“Weirdly, when I started streamg, I never advertised that I was gay, nor mentned on stream … I quickly realised this was foolish. ”As Ben pots out, though, gamg’s general reputatn for toxicy is not entirely unjtified, and outsi explicly LGBTQ+-iendly spac there is still a lot of homophobia around.

“I don’t believe ’s an overstatement to say that the gamg sector has a huge problem wh homophobia, transphobia and other forms of bigotry, but is beg tackled at all stag by publishers and velopers who don’t want their gam tated by , which is hearteng to see. Lookg around the room at the Gaymg awards, I’m surround by people whose queerns and love for vio gam are both important parts of who they are – and nowadays, they are no longer at odds. A study of gamer behavr fds they shy away om gay characters, regardls of their strengthsA person drsed as the character Genji om the vio game Overwatch durg a recent tournament.

BALDUR’S GATE 3 HAS A GAY BEAR SEX SCENE AND PEOPLE ARE LOVG

However, backlash uld ter the pani om supportg margalized groups and disurage gay players om participatg. 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.

VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS

The majory had heard about Soldier: 76 beg gay but didn’t re. They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid .

Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men. Caper the Castro is nsired the first-ever for homosexualy and LGBT vio gam. Set the gay district of San Francis, the ma character – a lbian – looks for her drag queen iend who has been kidnapped.

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class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p> </p><p>A new survey sh a light on why some gamers might feel unfortable disclosg their LGBTQ+ inti onle.</p><p>In a survey of 788 rponnts between the ag of 18 to 70, a study <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">published by the gamg webse </a> found that 73% of all LGBTQ+ gamers reported experiencg harassment on the basis of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. The gamers who are out onle are 21% more likely to experience verbal abe than their closeted unterparts.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="4e2xyb"></div></div><p>The study, which follows an Anti-Defamatn League <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">report on LGBTQ+ gamers om 2019</a>, explas that even the hight-earng profsnal LGBTQ+ gamers brought far ls revenue last year than the top heterosexual earners. For stance, straight <em>Call of Duty</em> gamer Jam Eubanks (also known as “Clayster”) brought $365,000 2020, while Autumn Burchett, one of the top money-makers among LGBTQ+ gamers, took home $50,000. Burchett’s sum is ls than a seventh of what Eubanks earned.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>This is pecially tertg light of last year’s Nielsen 360 survey on queer gamers, which showed that LGBTQ+ players on average spend <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">8% more money on gam per month</a> than straight players.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>The Onle Roulette survey shows that queer gamers aren’t jt at a fancial disadvantage, however. Among the pool of dividuals surveyed, 37% answered “y” when asked whether their “gamg inty” is reflective of their LGBTQ+ orientatn.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Overall, 88% reported beg harassed while gamg.</p><p>The study also found that queer women and nonbary gamers suffer particularly severe harassment on the basis of their sex and genr inti. Acrdg to the study, 61% of nonbary gamers last year reported experienced sexist ments, such as sults about their telligence. Meanwhile, 33% were threatened wh sexual vlence, and 67% field rogatory remarks about their sexualy. Around 21% of queer women reported onle stalkg by harassers, while 63% alt wh rogatory ments about their gamg skills.</p><p>Gamers who were open about their inti saw the bnt of the ab, wh 1 4 out LGBTQ+ rponnts claimg to have been threatened wh sexual asslt. As for everyone else, the survey showed that 35% of LGBTQ+ players 2020 felt too unsafe to disclose their inty. Nearly half of queer gamers — 40% — cid to stop playg onle altogether bee of onle harassment, acrdg to the rults.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iezhXq llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><div class="ContentCardEmbedWrapper-kULtsE iGAJsG ntent-rd-embed ntent-rd-embed--stacked" data-ttid="ContentCardEmbedWrapper"><div class="ContentCardEmbedImage-iwqgVw jlIubp ntent-rd-embed__image" data-ttid="ContentCardEmbedImage"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa rponsive-image"><img alt="Spirman and another superhero hold hands." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></div><div class="ContentCardEmbedInfo-bDftKl bGnSrq"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentCardEmbedHed-kJVPGC iUEiRd gFmvMS cewqFA ntent-rd-embed__hed" data-ttid="ContentCardEmbedHed"><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ContentCardEmbedHedLk-eXLwe iUEiRd gFmvMS hRaEiJ eFUKSb ntent-rd-embed__hed-lk" href="/story/gen-n-gamg-culture" data-ttid="ContentCardEmbedHedLk">How LGBTQ+ People Are Tryg to Fix Toxic Gamg Culture</a></div><div data-ttid="ContentCardEmbedDek" class="ContentCardEmbedDek-bA-DKch hXdQfY">"Like vio gam, tabletop gamg culture has been overwhelmgly domated by straight whe cisgenr men for s."</div></div></div></div><p>That said, there were some posive fdgs. <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Acrdg to the Onle Roulette study, 45% of rponnts</a> said that gamg played an tegral part their disvery of their own queer inty.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="mfs8o8"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="m3hei"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>In addn, gam like <em>Starw Valley</em> and <em>Animal Crossg</em> <a href=">have bee onle safe spac</a> for the LGBTQ+ muny, even <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">embolng some ers to e out</a>. Gam that allow ers to create new persona onle n even act as trag wheels for queer and trans players who don’t feel nfint or safe enough to be open real life.</p><p>Many queer journalists and activists — cludg <em>them.</em> ntributor <a href=">Matt Bme</a> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a 2018 lecture at the Game Developers Conference</a> — argue that queerns has always been an <a href=">tegral part of gamg culture</a>, pecially nsirg the history of early RPGs like <em>The Sims</em> and <em>Send Life</em>. The gaed populary wh queer and trans ers by allowg them to create a <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pletely new persona (or personae) onle.</a></p><p>The world of gamg <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">has been changg</a> recent years an attempt to addrs the history of erasure gam, as well as downright bad reprentatn. Last year, <em>Tell Me Why</em> <a href=">beme the first vio game</a> to feature a trans lead character. While s pro-p stance left much to be sired, the makers worked closely wh trans GLAAD employe to make sure didn’t fall to the same trap as the mega-h <em>Last of Us II</em>, which featured a trans character who <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">gets adnamed</a>.</p><p>But not all progrs has been lear. Last year, the mega-h <em>Cyberpunk 2077</em> <a href=" target="_blank">drew ire om trans activists</a> for allowg players to “clock” trans characters as part of the gameplay.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p><em><strong>Get the bt of what’s queer.</strong></em> <a href=">Sign up for <em>them</em>.'s weekly newsletter here.</a></p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="8zhf7o"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div 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