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style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/></span><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Image: Blizzard</ce></div></figure></div><div class="hidn md:block"><figure class="duet--article--le-image w-full"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:relative"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;paddg-top:66.63636363636364%"></span><img alt="Screenshot om Overwatch 2 featurg the game’s queer hero: Soldier: 76, Tracer, Baptiste, Lifeweaver, and Pharah, standg the middle of the Midtown map rated for a Pri para" siz="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, (max-width: 1180px) 700px, 1100px" srcSet="(1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 376w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 384w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 415w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 480w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 540w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 640w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 750w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 828w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 1920w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 2048w, (1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(1920x1080:1921x1081):format(webp)/" dg="async" data-nimg="rponsive" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/></span><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Image: Blizzard</ce></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="relative mt-28 md:mx-to md:flex md:max-w-ntaer-md lg:mt-36 lg:max-w-none"><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent-ntaer sm:ml-to md:ml-100 md:max-w-article-body lg:mx-100"><div id="ntent" class="clearfix"><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em>Overwatch 2</em> will celebrate <a href=">s first-ever Pri event</a>. Startg June 1st, the Midtown map will be ftooned wh Pri flags, the lbian hero Tracer will have a picture of her and her partner add to the barracks the Watchpot: Gibraltar map, and players will get a host of ins and name rds reflect the breadth of queer inti and the <em>Overwatch</em> hero who share them. <em>The Verge</em> had the opportuny to speak wh the velopers about this new event, gag sight to what went to creatg this event and what this means for <em>Overwatch</em>’s LGBTQ+ fans and characters.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">“We want to feel like the game is reflectg what’s happeng the real world. We<em> </em>do for Halloween. We do for Lunar New Year, too,” said game director Aaron Keller durg the terview. “It’s important to rry this forward for Pri as well.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em>Overwatch</em> has been celebrated for the diversy of s characters, reflectg people om around the world. Shortly after the game’s lnch 2016, the <em>Overwatch</em> team <a href=">released a ic</a> intifyg the hero Tracer — who, bee of her promence the game’s marketg, has been sentially the face of the game — as a lbian. In 2019, the gff Soldier: 76 <a href=">was nfirmed as gay</a>. More recently, the game’s latt support character, <a href="/2023/4/4/23669682/overwatch-2-new-hero-lifeweaver">Lifeweaver, was troduced as pansexual</a> — makg the first time an <em>Overwatch</em> character’s sexualy was clud as a part of their announcement rather than add after the fact.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Over the years, there’s been lots of speculatn om fans and oh so many fanworks discsg the sexualy of the <em>Overwatch</em> hero. For this new event, Blizzard is addg two more characters to the roster of queer hero: Baptiste and Pharah.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">In <a href=">a short story released as a part of the event</a>, the rocket-spewg hero Pharah clar that she’s a lbian to Baptiste, who’s a recent addn to the Overwatch team after his fectn om the terrorist group Talon. While the story don’t outright state Baptiste’s sexualy, ’s implied that he’s at least attracted to men. From the -game player rds that feature <em>Overwatch</em>’s queer hero and the flags that reprent them, Baptiste is bisexual.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:20.349761526232115%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="An -game smetic om Overwatch 2 featurg the hero Baptiste over the bisexual pri flag lors." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="An -game smetic om Overwatch 2 featurg the hero Baptiste over the bisexual pri flag lors." loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 376w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 384w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 415w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 480w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 540w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 640w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 750w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 828w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1080w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1200w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1440w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1920w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 2048w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(315x64:316x65):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div><div class="z-1 w-full hidn"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:20.349761526232115%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="An -game smetic om Overwatch 2 featurg the hero Baptiste over the bisexual pri flag lors." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="An -game smetic om Overwatch 2 featurg the hero Baptiste over the bisexual pri flag lors." loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 376w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 384w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 415w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 480w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 540w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 640w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 750w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 828w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1080w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1200w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1440w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1920w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 2048w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(315x64:316x65):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"><figptn class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&>a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63"><em>The </em>Overwatch 2<em> player name rd that featur Baptiste and the bisexual pri flag lors.</em></figptn> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Image: Blizzard</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Overwatch’s reprentatn of queer characters is unique pared wh how other shooters have handled cludg LGBTQ+ people that ’s reluctant to pair off characters. <em>Dty 2</em> featur <a href=">a gay relatnship between Sat-14 and Osiris</a>, while <em>Apex Legends</em> has <a href=">queer romantic relatnships between several of s hero</a>. The revelatn that Pharah is a lbian will no doubt throw high-octane gasole on the fan-ma fire that believ Pharah and Mercy are a uple — a fire <em>Overwatch</em> self do not have a problem wh fanng.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="duet--media--embed m-h-[270px] mb-20 w-full md:max-w-[460px]"></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">But... Pharmercy fans will have to wa longer for their relatnship to be enshred non. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">“We n’t talk about the relatnships of the characters our game,” said senr game producer Brandy Stil. “We’re always exced by the relatnships the players fd for our characters. We’re always velopg thgs, so who knows?”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="duet--media--embed m-h-[270px] mb-20 w-full md:max-w-[460px]"></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">This Pri event will feature a Pri-themed map and player smetics but, unfortunately, no voice l. <em>Overwatch </em>has been cricized the past for havg queer characters like Tracer and Soldier: 76 but not havg those characters’ inti explicly outled wh the game self. For both Tracer and Soldier: 76, their queerns was first lled out ics, and asi om a ntextls spray for Tracer pictg her girliend Ey, the game didn’t allu at all to eher’s inty. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">Pharmercy fans will have to wa longer for their relatnship to be enshred non</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Not havg voice l uld feel like an extensn of that. Blizzard is statg the characters are queer, but whout voice l of the characters affirmg their inty, Blizzard will be able to prerve a kd of plsible niabily for the typ of players who have a problem wh queer characters. The velopers are aware of that perceptn and say that’s not the se.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">“We want to be clear who the hero are all aspects of themselv,” Stil said. “Their inty is not a secret. It’s a part of them, and we want to make that clear to our players.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">So even though there aren’t specific voice l this time, this Pri event isn’t the end of queer exprsn Overwatch. “You will hear them talk about thgs like this,” Stil ntued. “Maybe not necsarily this Pri event, but ’s somethg we’re always thkg about and workg on for the future.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">“Their inty is not a secret. It’s a part of them, and we want to make that clear to our players.”</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Senr narrative signer Jen Stacey add to that sayg, “We do have voice l where characters’ sexuali and inti e up the game planned.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:100%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="An -game smetic spray picture om Overwatch 2 featurg the lbian character Tracer and her girliend Ey." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="An -game smetic spray picture om Overwatch 2 featurg the lbian character Tracer and her girliend Ey." loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" 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relative" style="paddg-top:100%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="An -game smetic spray picture om Overwatch 2 featurg the lbian character Tracer and her girliend Ey." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="An -game smetic spray picture om Overwatch 2 featurg the lbian character Tracer and her girliend Ey." loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" 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[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63"><em>A spray featurg Tracer and her girliend Ey.</em></figptn> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Image: Blizzard</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Amidst the new offergs for Pri, there is ncern that players who choose to e the LGBTQ+ smetics might face more than the typil harassment that wh playg an onle shooter. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">When asked if there was any moratn plan place to addrs that, Keller replied that the team tak harassment serly and poted to <a href="/2022/9/27/23375091/overwatch-2-fense-matrix-d-transcriptn-phone-number-battle-">the technology they’ve already implemented to bat harassment</a>. After the terview, public relatns manager Eric Elltt nfirmed, “Our ctomer service team is planng creased moratn.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Stil exprsed hope that, addn to the moratn tools place, the <em>Overwatch</em> muny self would e together to support each other. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">“I’ve seen such betiful moments e out om uld have been really dark moments,” she said. “I’ve been lled out for havg a rabow in, then my team rallied behd me<em> </em>and got out of gold.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:20.349761526232115%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="Name rd om Overwatch 2 featurg the hero Soldier: 76 over the gay pri flag lors." 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(315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 1920w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 2048w, (315x64:316x65):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(315x64:316x65):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"><figptn class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&>a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63"><em>The Soldier: 76 gay pri flag player name rd.</em></figptn> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Image: Blizzard</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Overwatch’s pri event will go live on June 1st but not every regn. Queer people are not accepted everywhere (not even here the US), and when asked about untri where LGBTQ+ ntent is censored or banned, the velopers did share that there were some untri which the Pri event would be blocked. “The tech allows to prevent this ntent om gog out to untri that have laws that aren’t tolerant of LGBT ntent,” Stil said. “This helps protect those players.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The velopers, cg legal reasons, uldn’t share a list of those blocked untri, and when asked if the team would ban the ntent if a untry’s regulator asked, Keller said, “We do strive to follow the laws different untri. And my personal value is that ’s better to be able to engage where you n than to not be able to engage wh people at all.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">It’s great that <em>Overwatch</em> is fally addg a Pri event to the game, pecially when so much of the game’s appeal om s diverse characters. <em>Overwatch</em>’s celebratn of LGBTQ+ characters and, more importantly, players is vally important as queer people, pecially transgenr people, are facg an unprecented wave of social and legislative hate. </p></div></div><div class="mb-40 mt-30"><button class="duet--article--ments-button group le-flex h-40 w-full ems-center jtify-center round-[2px] borr-[1px] borr-solid borr-blurple font-polysans-mono text-11 font-light upperse trackg-12 text-blurple hover:bg-blurple hover:text-whe md:w-to md:px-30"><svg class="mr-10 le pt-2" width="12" height="14" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 12 12" stroke-width="1px" xmlns="><tle>Comments

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Blizzard Entertament's Overwatch has nfirmed two of s hero are gay, a move that's a major step forward for gamg.

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27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY

We've piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be... gay. Or bi. Or what-have-you. * over watch gay *

In the latt data drop, we got nfirmatn of somethg that many fans long knew their hearts — Soldier: 76, real name John Francis “Jack” Morrison, is gay. We’ve known for a while that Tracer is gay, too, and a happy relatnship. If characters like this are meangful and important to the LGBT muny, and reprentatn matters (which very much do), then surely another two years we’re gog to fd out that another character is gay.

We had a look over the other characters on the Overwatch roster, tirelsly pored through their backstori, pared not, looked for hts, and piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be… gay. Lov his gay dghter.

GENJICOULD GENJI BE GAY? IS HIS RELATNSHIP WH ZENYATTA MORE THAN “JT IENDS”?IN THE REFLECTNS IC, HE’S SHOWN WH A PIECE OF PAPER AND QUILL HAND. MERCY IS SHOWN READG A LETTER. THIS DO NOT DITE HETEROSEXUAL ACTIVY, AS WE ALL KNOW THAT GENJI IS JT SPAMMG “I NEED HEALG.”HOWEVER, GENJI CREDS HIS RELATNSHIP WH ZENYATTA FOR HELPG HIM E TO TERMS WH HIS NEW CYB FORM AND SPENDS MUCH OF HIS TIME WH THE OMNIC. SO… MAYBE.VERDICT: POSSIBLE.MCCREEFANS LIKE TO PAIR MCCREE WH HANZO, PRUMABLY BEE THEY’RE TWO CHARACTERS WHOSE FAC WE N ACTUALLY SEE. AND I MEAN, THEY REALLY LIKE TO PAIR MCCREE WH HANZO. HAVE THE TWO EVER SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER? .. THAT EVER STOPPED ANYBODY?PL, HIS WBOY THG ULD BE A BROKEBACK MOUNTA REFERENCE OR ULD JT BE A YMCA-STYLE LOVE OF STUM. HE’S LLED OUT FOR HIS ATTIRE PLENTY OF TIM, YET PERSISTS. LOVE OF DRAMA AND THEATRE? EXCED BY THE HYPERMASCULE ATHETIC? HMM…ANYWAY, IF MCCREE IS GOG TO BE GAY FOR ANYONE, ’S FELY REAPER. REAPER TOOK MCCREE UNR HIS WG WHEN MCCREE WAS AN IMPRSNABLE TEENAGER AND REAPER WAS HIS PRIME AS THE LEAR OF BLACKWATCH. OF URSE REAPER WASN’T TERTED, BEE HE WAS A GROWN-ASS MAN, BUT WHAT LQUENT-ASS TEEN WOULDN’T P THEIR GAY LTLE HOP ON SUCH A POWERFUL, DANGERO FIGURE?VERDICT: POSSIBLE, AND PRETTY ENTERTAG.BUT THERE’S ANOTHER REASON REAPER HAD NO TERT. AND THAT’S BEE…REAPERIF REAPER IS GAY FOR ANYONE, HE’S GAY FOR SOLDIER 76.COME ON! THEY HAVE ALL: THE PLITED HISTORY, THE IENDSHIP-TO-ENEMI TROPE, THE BETRAYAL, THE DRAMA, THE PATHOS, THE OBSSN WH EACH OTHER. THE ONLY THG THAT ULD MAKE THEIR BACKSTORY MORE LIC IS IF THEY WERE NOT MERELY BT IENDS AND CLOSE LLEAGU, BUT LOVERS.LOVE TURNED BY TIME, BTERNS AND TALON BRAWASHG TO HATE AND MISUNRSTANDG? A DARK-SKNED LATO UNAD NANOBOT ABOMATN MAN WHO LOV SPANKG THE MONKEY GORILLA, CHRISTIAN BALE’S BATMAN VOICE AND THE LAKERS? THK OF THE REPRENTATNAL TRIUMPH!VERDICT: HIGHLY POSSIBLE. BLIZZARD PLS.SOLDIER 76THE ONLY PERSON ON THE PLA THAT SOLDIER 76 SHOULD BE GAY FOR IS REAPER. HE AND REAPER ARE MIRRORS, SO HE’S GOG TO BE JT AS GAY FOR REAPER AS REAPER IS FOR HIM.THK ABOUT : SOLDIER 76 IS A NSISTENT FELLA. HE DON’T WANT NEWFANGLED ENTANGLEMENTS WHEN HE HAS SO MANY PLITED OLD ON. WHO IS GOG TO WANT HIS MTY OLD SELF? SOMEONE EQUALLY OLD AND MTY. SOMEONE WH WHOM HE’S GOT HISTORY. SOMEONE HE KNOWS... SOMEONE LIKE REAPER.VERDICT: BLIZZARD PLS! IT MAK SO MUCH NARRATIVE SENSE!PHARAHLBIAN PHARAH WOULD BE A TRIUMPH FOR VERTIL LBIAN REPRENTATN. AS A FLYG LBIAN, SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL LBIAN TYP ATTAABLE. BOOSTED AND PROTECTED BY MERCY’S POWER AND GENI, LBIAN PHARAH IS PURE AND GOOD.EVEN IF PHAMERCY IS NEVER NON THE ICS, ’S NON OVERWATCH GAMEPLAY MECHANICS ANYWAY, SO WHY NOT BBER-STAMP ?VERDICT: WOULD BE NICE.MERCYONLY WH PHARAH.VERDICT: NO PHARAH NO CRY.SOMBRASHE N LERALLY RETRACT HER NAILS. WHAT KD OF CREDIBLE LBIAN ABILY….VERDICT: DO FOR THE KIDS.BASTNDO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? DO WAR MACH DREAM OF LOVE ON BEDS OF ROS? IF ANY WAR MACHE DO, ’S BASTN. FD BASTN SOME OLD PIECE OF POST-WAR SCRAP METAL TO LOVE AND RAISE GANYME WH.VERDICT: ROBOTS N LOVE TOO.ZENYATTAZENYATTA IS A MONK. HIS WHOLE SCHTICK IS TRANQUILY, THE EMBRACE OF THE IRIS, BLAH BLAH. WHAT DO GENR MEAN THE IRIS? IT SHOULD MEAN NOTHG TO ZENYATTA. ZEN SHOULD LOVE PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE, NOT WHAT SHAPE THEIR BODY IS. AND WE ALREADY KNOW THAT HE DO: HE WAS THE ONE WHO HELPED GENJI E TO PTHS WH HIS NEW CYB FORM.ZENYATTA LOV ALL.VERDICT: OMNIC LOVE RIGHTS NOW!HANZOHANZO KILLED HIS OWN BROTHER AND LEFT HIM FOR AD. HE DON’T SERVE LOVE OM ANYONE.VERDICT: DIE ALONE.JUNKRATIF JUNKRAT ISN’T EVENTUALLY REVEALED TO BE BIG GAY HOOTS WH ROADHOG, I’LL BE GOBSMACKED. THEY SEEM TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN EACH OTHER’S PANY. PL, JUNKRAT HIRED ROADHOG TO BE HIS BODYGUARD WATCH HIS ASS. SURE, JUNKRAT TEAS MEI, BUT THAT’S BEE JUNKRAT IS PULSIVELY ANNOYG AND N’T HELP . HE ALREADY HAS A STRONG RELATNSHIP WH ROADHOG. TAKG TO THE NEXT STEP FEELS NATURAL.I DON’T KNOW IF JUNKRAT IS GAY, BUT I FEEL MY HEART THAT HE LOV ROADHOG ALMOST AS MUCH AS ROADHOG LOV BAN. DON’T THAT UNT?VERDICT: 10/10 BAN CHEEBURGERS.ROADHOGWHY NOT?I MEAN, I JT N’T THK OF ONE SGLE GOOD REASON WHY NOT. GIVE ME THE FAT GAY SHARK-PIG MAN REPRENTATN. WHY NOT?VERDICT: 10/10 PIG PLHI.MEISATAN DO WHAT SATAN WANTS. GIVE MEI A GIRLIEND SO SHE N TELL THE HATERS TO STAY OSTY.VERDICT: DO MONS HAVE GENR?TORBJORNLET THE STRAIGHTS KEEP HIM AND HIS 87 KIDS.VERDICT: THE GAYS DON’T WANT HIM.WIDOWMAKERWIDOWMAKER NEEDS TO NOT BE BRAWASHED BEFORE WE START TALKG ABOUT HER SEXUAL PREFERENCE AND ROMANTIC ATTRACTNS. SORRY, TRACER/WIDOWMAKER FANS. ISN’T SHE STILL GRIEVG HER AD HBAND ANYWAY?VERDICT: LOSE THE PURPLE A TY LBIAN GREML SOLDIER/STREAMER BABY. SHE LOV CSHG N00BS MORE THAN SHE LOV ANYONE ON THE PLA, BUT WHO’S TO SAY THE GIRL THAT CHANG HER LIFE MIGHT NOT BE CLOSE AT HAND? GO AHEAD AND MAKE GAY.VERDICT: 5/5 MOUNTA DEWS.REHARDTA LEGENDARY OLD GAY WARRR. WHAT ABOUT THAT OLD KNIGHT-COMMANR OF HIS OM THE WAR WHOSE ARMOR IS ONE OF REHARDT’S LEGENDARY SKS? THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY TOUCHG BACKSTORY.VERDICT: 87/87 OF TORBJORN’S KIDS.WSTONWSTON IS A GORILLA AND HAS ENOUGH TO BE GETTG ON WH.VERDICT: ISN’T BEG A GORILLA HARD ENOUGH?ZARYAZARYA IS FELY A LBIAN. SHE JT HASN’T BEEN ANNOUNCED YET, BUT I KNOW, AND ZARYA KNOWS, AND ALL OF THE LBIANS KNOW. SHE IS A POWERFUL SIBERIAN BEAR… LET HER BENCH PRS SOME LOVELY LADY.VERDICT: GOG TO HAPPEN.ANAOLR WOMEN, EVEN ON WHO’VE HAD CHILDREN AND RELATNSHIPS WH MEN, N INTIFY AS LBIAN JT AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE. OR AS BISEXUAL, OR AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN STRAIGHT. GIVE THE VAGARI OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE, BLIZZARD! SHOW THE WAY!VERDICT: IF SHE’S NOT AN OLDI THREOME WH REAPER AND SOLDIER, THEN GIVE HER A NICE OLD LADY LOVER. SHE’S SMOPOLAN, BETIFUL, WHY NOT?LUCTHIS GAY IS GONNA DO GREAT! “BEYONCE WH A GUN” SHOULD FELY BE GAY. IT’S ONLY JTICE.VERDICT: BLAST LADY GAGA OUT OF ALL YOUR DREADLOCKS, GIRL! THAT’S RIGHT, HIS DREADS HAVE SPEAKERS THE ENDS…SYMMETRA

Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * over watch gay *

Lov her gay father.

"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT

Move, he's gay. * over watch gay *

Hamsters are, as turns out, one of the 227 mammals observed displayg homosexual tennci. Gay, but too by tryg to figure out how her new abili work after each overhl to see anyone.

Also, she lov her gay mother. Lov her gay dghter.

When asked, Moira says that she knows that sexualy is a spectm, where few people tly fall all the way on one si or another, and that she unrstands that te reprentatn go beyond simply nsirg whether or not people are “gay” or “straight, ” but also says that she nsirs herself “95 percent gay. You might ask yourself, n robots even be gay?

WHY OVERWATCH'S GAY CHARACTERS ARE SO IMPORTANT

But how, you ask, n a robot be gay when their genr is assigned before they’re booted to life — simply by athetic choic and the whims of their signers?

And if so, then isn’t this whole thg much ls clear cut than “y, the robot is gay”?

We only know one thg for sure, though: Zenyatta is gay.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* OVER WATCH GAY

Why Overwatch's Two Gay Characters Are So Important.

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