Persona 5: Can You Be Gay?

Contents:

• PERSONA 5 ROYAL SHOULD DIAL UP THE GAY
• HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS
• PERSONA 5: CAN YOU BE GAY?
• DO YOU WANT A GAY OPTN THIS GAME?
• PERSONA 6 NEEDS A GAY ROMANCE OPTN
• PERSONA 4: GOLN MOD RTOR GAY ROMANCE OPTN
• WHY NO GAY ROMANCE OPTNS FAM?

PERSONA 5 ROYAL SHOULD DIAL UP THE GAY

The two unnamed men are the only explicly gay characters the game:.

They are effemative gay men, who are basilly preyg on the nocent straight mor Ryuji. The game lets you rpond wh a joke rponse to Ryuji that he has to basilly ’man up’ agast the unmanly gay men.

So the scene starts wh the two gay men makg their entrance. The scene is amed as beg reflectn to the boy’s attempts to h on women earlier, so ’s more or ls meant as a ”punishment” towards them wh the st of showg the gay men aga an offensive light.

HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS

And then the gay men nng after them, sce they are gog to forcibly harass them. The boys manage to pe, and the two gay men are never referenced directly the game aga, unls you go out of your way to talk to them Shju, where they make remarks about another male character who is still a mor.

This is basilly yet another example of a very troublome trope wily known as "All Gays are Pedophil". This showg this game is pecially bad due to the two characters beg the only two fely gay men Tokyo Protagonist will teract wh. The ia that ”All gay men are sexual predators, huntg for pecially mors/children” is pecially troublg due to how this stereotype about gay men is actively ed as a reason to abe and hunt Gay mory Rsia pecially.

The group is said to equate homosexualy to pedophilia, and is also alleged to target gay men and subject them to siar abive treatment. So is worryg and harmful to see the game e this very damagg stereotype towards gay men, pecially this se where the two characters are the only explicly gay men the whole game. But the game giv you explicly no gay romance choic, which is unfortunate, although not exactly a surprise, given how Persona 3 (Outsi of P3P where Female Protagonist uld romance Elizabeth and Aigis) and 4 were absolutely no-no to gay choic, even when would have been the most logil ncln wrg wise (Persona 4 for example removed Yose’s romance optn pletely, even though there are signs that he was origally gog to be one.

PERSONA 5: CAN YOU BE GAY?

At the end of the scene, the people the boat next to you and Ye thk you two are a gay uple. It’s also a scene where the ma protagonist shows some distrs of beg even labeled gay, and you are not given any other optn about . So ’s a shame how this game is fely agast the ia of even havg a gay optn for you to romance.

This is weird, pecially parison to Persona 2, which actually let you choose a gay romance optn a very rpectful manner. It’s also a real missed oppoturny, pecially sce the only gay characters shown before are harmful stereotyp. Around the same time the game you meet wh the two gay men, you also meet up wh Lala Esrgot.

Her wrg is more or ls the stereotype of a hosts Okama Bar (Okama Bar is a gay bar wh ually drag queen hosts), yet the bar she seems to be nng is not a gay bar at least explicly. Persona 4 first seemed to go ep to LGBT them, but then backed out twice favor of different typ of story arcs altogether, while lettg one of the ma characters (Yose) act like a rampant homophobic wh no one actually llg him out if durg the whole game. And like mentned before, Persona 4 also seems to have removed a gay romance optn at some pot durg velopment, even though those l were even dubbed english.

DO YOU WANT A GAY OPTN THIS GAME?

TL;DR: While Persona 5 has one fairly well wrten LGBT character, overall the game do bad job wrg about the sexual mori, wh outright harmful stereotyp and plete lack of gay romance optns. However, one improved aspect that we'd love to see  this new release is the cln of gay romance optns the game. The crique namely stems om two namels recurrg characters throughout the game -- two openly gay men, who pop up perdilly var lotns, cludg the beach and Shju.

They check the box of every major gay stereotype: they're effemate, drs flamboyantly wh patterned shirts and hats, and sentially prey upon Joker and Ryuji, even gog so far as to say thgs like "I'm gog to eat you up!

" The scen -- which arguably feel credibly out-of-place the game to beg wh -- propagate the already harmful stereotype of predatory gay men. Therefore, this new and ostensibly improved versn of Persona 5, the soon-to-be released Persona 5 Royal should remove the stereotypil characters and add gay romance optns to the game.

PERSONA 6 NEEDS A GAY ROMANCE OPTN

It wouldn't be a huge difference to add gay romance to the game. The velopers acknowledged an terview that a ntroversial scene the origal Persona 5 picted two of the game’s only gay characters as predators, and that they knew didn’t go over well wh many of the game’s fans.

PERSONA 4: GOLN MOD RTOR GAY ROMANCE OPTN

In the origal Persona 5, a pair of unnamed gay men approach the character Ryuji unprompted durg a mandatory -game vis to Shju. It’s a eply unsettlg and unnecsary scene that pats the game’s only two visibly gay men as predators, and the whole suatn is played off as a joke. In Persona 5 Royal, the two gay men are no longer unnamed; they troduce themselv as Angel and Julian (or Julie, if you’re “feelg scy”).

The punchle is now “isn’t funny that the gay men ma a boy wear women’s cloth, spe the fact that they were clearly makg him unfortable, ” stead of the prev joke that was based on the punchle of “isn’t the implied implied threat of sexual asslt, or even rape, hilar? Was my therapist gay or trans? Down the ments, rears started talkg about the relatnships the game mak possible, and how ’s a shame rerv romance for heteronormative suatns, pecially when s portrayal of gay characters isn’t exactly an acceptg one.

WHY NO GAY ROMANCE OPTNS FAM?

Seth Carlson weighed : As a gay du, I was really hopg they would throw an M/M romance route or at the very least make some roads om the pretty mean-spired ways they’ve treated most of the queer characters the Persona seri, but damn if they didn’t fuckg go backward Persona 5.

There are a uple sequenc that play on all the worst stereotyp of gay men beg predatory effemate pedophile rapists. At some pot velopment, Persona 4 origally planned to have a gay relatnship between the player character and Yose, who had an uned voiced le featurg a love nfsn hidn wh the game fil.