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Contents:
- NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
- "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
- HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
- SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
- A BETTER WAY FOR 'OVERWATCH' TO REVEAL SOLDIER 76 AS GAY
- BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
- IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
- A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
We're all soldiers now.Rpawn dialogue Soldier: 76, real name Jack Morrison, is a gay character om Overwatch. This sectn is need of major improvement. Please help improve this article by edg . Jack Morrison signed up to fight the Omnic wars at age 18. He beme one of the... * soldier 76 lgbt *
Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay. Both intify as gay.
Soldier: 76, real name Jack Morrison, is a gay character om Overwatch. Michael Chu later nfirmed on twter that Jack and Vcent had been a relatnship, and both of them intify as gay[1].
Shock then ran among all fans when was revealed that Jack was gay. While LGBT fans were exced for another gay character, many ed to pot out a lack of diversy the LGBT characters.
"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story. * soldier 76 lgbt *
Most gay characters wtern media are whe men, and wanted to see more POC queer reprentatn. Gamergate players had a very negative reactn to the reveal that Jack Morrison was gay. Some ma over exaggerated remarks that half the roster was gay, and the reveal ed the character.
HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
Move, he's gay. * soldier 76 lgbt *
Badass Gay. Nobody Over 50 Is Gay - Subverted. GAY.
Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story.
New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship. Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier.
SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
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He’s gay. In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else. Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season?
While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story.
And we've jt learned that he's gay. What a joyo time to be a gaymer.
A BETTER WAY FOR 'OVERWATCH' TO REVEAL SOLDIER 76 AS GAY
The ter reacts to Soldier: 76 beg gay. Chaos ensu. * soldier 76 lgbt *
SOLDIER 76 IS GAY.
IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD. YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE.
BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
'Overwatch' recently revealed that Soldier 76 is gay, but you won't fd anythg about si the game. * soldier 76 lgbt *
While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character. Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game. As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement.
After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game. “They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse.
Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League. And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well. It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men.
IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
Blizzard reveals that Overwatch's Soldier: 76 is gay - but they n do better than an isolated short story that might also be a PR distractn. * soldier 76 lgbt *
“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, ” Nseler wrote. So, Soldier 76 is gay, and this kd of shocked a lot of people. Some people are upset by this, sayg that gayns is beg "shoved down their throats" and I wholeheartedly disagree!!
Tracer was first revealed to be gay TWO years ago, and now that Soldier 76 is part of the LGBT muny, they say that 's TOO MUCH? That is a grand total of 2 gay characters the 27 character st.
A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * soldier 76 lgbt *
Blizzard jt dropped a bombshell on 's fan base, announcg the latt Bastet short story that Soldier: 76 may be gay.