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Contents:
- FAKE OR GAY: YOSHI AND TUROK
- EVEN IF YOSHI IS GAY, WHERE ARE THE OTHER GAY VIO GAME HERO?
- GETTG SOME PLAY: IS YOSHI GAY?
- MAR KART WII CHARACTERS RANKED BY GAY-NS
- MASSIVE: GAY EROTIC MANGA AND THE MEN WHO MAKE IT
- BLACK YOSHI'S GAY SYNDROME!
- IS LYRIS REIL’S MIKA GAY? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
FAKE OR GAY: YOSHI AND TUROK
IGN's gaydar is pgg off the chart for some of gamg's most famo characters. * yoshi gay *
Your favore vio game characters are the closet, and we're openg the 's face , there aren't a lot of openly gay characters vio gam.
Sure, there is a smatterg of stereotypil gays urty of Japan's refal to enter the 21st century, but overall 's hard to fd anythg for gay gamers to get exced over. I'm lookg to all the mored, joked about, and all but nfirmed "gay" characters vio gam, and I'm gog to ci, once and for all, whether they are, fact, queer.
Consir me the referee for thgs related to gay gamg.
EVEN IF YOSHI IS GAY, WHERE ARE THE OTHER GAY VIO GAME HERO?
Can an egg-layg dosr whout sex ans be gay? IGN's Jack DeVri mak the se that Mar's green dosr steed wh the prehensile tongue is "datg"- the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that am the seri-Birdo, the pk, bow-wearg dosr first seen Super Mar Bros. 2. * yoshi gay *
For the gay rears who don't get the sports reference, nsir me the judgg panel om Project Runway, but for vio gam. " Verdict:+Gay+(technilly+queer) It's a tricky suatn here bee there are a lot of unanswered qutns about Birdo.
And datg a transgenr or transsexual dividual don't, by fn, make you gay. The image has sparked bat om people wonrg whether the game's homoeroticism was censored, or whether Chad Smh is gay himself, or jt lik to make dumb jok. If you're gog to make your anchise's tular hero gay, you're gog to do right, and this is wrong (on so many levels).
GETTG SOME PLAY: IS YOSHI GAY?
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Verdict:+Fake+(unfortunately) As much as I'd like to say Turok is a mascule, badass, totally gay vio game hero, the evince pots to this beg the storyboard equivalent of a "no homo" joke. However I'm certaly not gog to stop any of you om adoptg him as the new gay gamg mast, 'e that'd be hilar. In fact, I thk we ought to make Yoshi the gay gamg poster dosr.
Turok may not be playg both sis, but he's certaly not the only overly mascule shooter character wh a lot of latent homoeroticism. Can an egg-layg dosr whout sex ans be gay?
MAR KART WII CHARACTERS RANKED BY GAY-NS
* yoshi gay *
") I thk people are overreactg a b, but that the overreactn largely om the right place: gamers don't really want to al wh gross characterizatns of gay culture.
(DeVri' ment about gay folk not gettg sports referenc particularly grat.
)Yet a larger qutn looms: Why aren't there more gay vio game hero? I wracked my bra to thk of openly gay hero. Not jt gay characters-which while not unmon, seem to be predomately flamboyant, evil, or gigglg lbian stereotyp—but central protagonists.
MASSIVE: GAY EROTIC MANGA AND THE MEN WHO MAKE IT
Yossi, a closeted gay doctor, has his quiet world turned upsi down when a woman om his past shows up. Their emotnally charged rnn Yossi to leave Tel Aviv and he fally wants to awaken om his emotnal slumber. * yoshi gay *
The only characters that sprang to md are the hero of BWare's role—playg gam like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, who n be gay pendg on what choic the player mak. Better than nothg, certaly, but not the same as a character who is simply gay, no player teractn required. )The explanatn uld be as simple as why there are few unassailably gay hero Hollywood movi: more mercial enavors than artistic on, any viatn om the perceived norm that would keep people om spendg their money on a game gets sand away.
March 21, 2013— -- Sger-songwrer Michelle Shocked apologized to fans after she reportedly went on an anti-gay rant at a San Francis ncert, sayg her support for the LGBT muny "has never wavered.
"And om our vantage pot we're gonna be, uh … once Prop 8 gets stated, and once preachers are held at gunpot and forced to marry the homosexuals, then I'm pretty sure that will be the signal for J to e on back. She has never given any ditn that she is anti-gay or racist her prev plays.
BLACK YOSHI'S GAY SYNDROME!
Black Yoshi's Gay Syndrome is the 389th episo of SML Movi and an hour long special. TBA Black Yoshi gets Gay Syndrome bee of drkg a myster drk! Bowser Junr then mak fun of him. This vio received overwhelmgly mixed to posive reviews om fans and crics. Fans praised... * yoshi gay *
She obvly has some ser issu and unfortunately chose our venue to vent them, " he News' lls to Yoshi's for ment were not immediately her letter, Shocked said that her statement equatg repeal of Prop 8 wh the g of the end of time "was neher leral nor ironic: It was a scriptn of how some folks – not me – feel about gay marriage. ""I do not, nor have I ever, said or believed that God hat homosexuals (or anyone else). "Meanr's Kchen Seattle, where Shocked was schled to perform on April 26, replaced Shocked's performance wh a Queer Burlque and Cabaret benef for lol gay youth.
Fake or Gay? There was a mor Inter kerfuffle last week, when IGN – a game se better known for featurg “bab” and a generally “bro-iendly” attu – published nfg piece lled “Fake or Gay” which analyzed two viogame characters wh supposed queer inti. ” People were up arms about the story, the sense beg that this was a homophobic (or, at the very least, sensive) way to grab hs.
IS LYRIS REIL’S MIKA GAY? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
Then, fellow IGN wrer Arthur Gi revealed that Jack is himself gay, and wrote the piece to discs issu of reprentatn. I got that sense the moment I read — the actual knowledge of the term “queer, ” the wrer’s own scriptn of himself as “the Perez Hilton of IGN, m the pk hair, bad attu and, like, 60 lbs., ” and the lk to another post claimg that Yoshi should be “reclaimed” as a gay gamer symbol all poted (to me, at least) – that the wrer was part of the muny. While seems a ltle silly that took a post about digal gay dosrs to get people talkg about the reprentatn of LGBT characters gam, ’s at least good to see some nversatn on the topic.
Gay dosrs asi, the biggt story by far this week was the Playstatn Network disaster. A fave for all, a timels classic, an inic le-up of characters who (let’s face ) all have gay tennci.