For The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Wii U, a GameFAQs msage board topic tled "We've already had a gay Zelda".
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- LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
- LK IS GAY
- WE'VE ALREADY HAD A GAY ZELDA
- TEARS OF THE KGDOM MIGHT HAVE INTRODUCED ZELDA'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
Legend of Zelda fans have long read Lk as gay or transgenr, even if his character is not nonilly queer. Fans have foced on shippg Lk and Sidon and drag readgs of the Gedo qut Breath of the Wild. * zelda is gay *
AO3 may not be the only metric for how many Zelda fans terpret Lk as gay and/or transgenr, but ’s one of the biggt.
LK IS GAY
In art, ’s mon to see queer-d monsters and pecially queer-d villas, particularly bee of how the Hays Co prohibed pictns of homosexualy on screen. This qut fails trans Zelda fans major ways, but much like Aonuma’s nial that Lk is gay, also prents players wh an opportuny.
WE'VE ALREADY HAD A GAY ZELDA
Even if Lk is never nonilly intified as gay or trans, fan ntent for The Legend of Zelda is everywhere, and queer fans pecially seem to produce ntent drov. For many, Lk is gay or trans or both, and that’s a powerful thg that n’t be taken away. Correctn (May 22): A prev versn of this story rrectly ntextualized a quote om a 2015 terview wh Kotaku, which Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Tgle is “not gay.
Lk is homosexual! Rearch suggts that homosexual mal gravate towards femal as close iends their childhood, moro than male iends. Why n’t he jt tell them that he’s gay?
He mt be one of the few emotnls gays out there. Don’t ever doubt gay stct my iends.
TEARS OF THE KGDOM MIGHT HAVE INTRODUCED ZELDA'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
In 2006 Lk was named the Hottt Vio Game Character by monthly gay and lbian culture magaze ‘Out’.