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ANIMAL CROSSG: NEW HORIZONS SAID GAY RIGHTS AND THERE’S NOTHG YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
But my island, Honey, is openly and vividly queer: I regularly gift Marshal, my favore villager (who for sure has strong femme energy) lacy tank tops; I’ve cid that Isabelle is gay and that her televisn-watchg is limed to The L Word rens; I buy to the ia that Tom Nook and Redd are gog through a gay divorce; I mentally assign all of my soft, “sister” villagers lbian ttage-re vib by plantg ltle garns outsi of their hom and giftg them dried flowers to hang by their wdows.
It’s much safer to ver my fictnal vio game island rabows and gayns than to do my real life. Bee of this, ers n grab and brg to their personal spac, rather than ma livg spac, so that they don’t have to worry about people they live wh who may be homophobic watchg as they rate their tag wh rabows. In a piece for i-D, “gay for play: how vio gam beme a space to virtually explore queerns, ” Jake Hall explas this phenomenon, wrg: “Animals and fantasy characters have long been embraced by queer gamers, most notably Pokémon.