'Overwatch' Holiday Comic Reveals Tracer Is Gay: The Inter Reacts To The Time-Hoppg Hero's Transformatn Into An LGBTQ Symbol | Tech Tim

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Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fanse, took time to s down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversy our favore team based shooter.

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OUR THOUGHTS ON OVERWATCH'S TRACER BEG GAY

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Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Heather: I thk they’ve been tellg about gay characters sce Grayson: They’ve hted at this specific reveal for months. I mean, I uld be super crass and poke at the panel layout: we cut to Tracer talkg to someone out of ame and then a whole ame of ‘look, ’s another woman’ as a fe narrative beat, and then we build to a kiss and cut away aga, closg out the brief arc as a story about Tracer beg gay.

There’s a fely a ‘surprise, gay! But I do agree that there’s an element of, “surprise, gay! I was super aaid that the “surprise, gay!

BLIZZARD CONFIRMS TRACER IS GAY NEW OVERWATCH HOLIDAY COMIC

Blizzard has revealed Overwatch's first gay character the game's latt ic. * tracer gay comic *

For me, I’m happy to give props to velopers who thk about how I’ll feel as a female I almost ma a GIF today of scrollg down the Tumblr tag for Tracer—100% of is “Tracer is gay and she saved my crops and cleared my sk. But I also regnize that one gay character is more or ls the bare mimum.

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The red-hot game now has s first gay character. * tracer gay comic *

Tracer is gay and that is wonrful.

Here’s a du that’s fely gay, and embedd gay culture, but his problems don’t revolve around beg gay and datg. In a recent holiday special edn ic, the creators at Blizzard have nonilly nfirmed Tracer as beg a gay woman. Blizzard has been alludg to the fact that an openly gay character exists Overwatch for some time, first wh mors and then wh hts alludg to the fact that would be revealed soon.

Ey kiss Tracer the Overwatch ic ReflectnsThis reveal after Overwatch artistic director Bill Petras nfirmed at BlizzCon 2015 that Overwatch would feature gay characters, though no specific character was mentned at the time. Overwatch’s New Comic Confirms Tracer’s Sexualy; Blocked Rsia for Homosexual Content.

TRACER IS, FACT, STILL GAY CHA, SO IS S76

Overwatch’s own Tracer is gay? In the past, homosexuals/bisexuals were seen as the most atroc thg a society. This shouldn’t e off as too much of a surprise as Blizzard has gone on rerd to say that there are multiple homosexual characters Overwatch.

'OVERWATCH' HOLIDAY COMIC REVEALS TRACER IS GAY: THE INTER REACTS TO THE TIME-HOPPG HERO'S TRANSFORMATN INTO AN LGBTQ SYMBOL

“Reflectns” mark the first playable character the game to be a homosexual and we expect that there will be more characters revealed to be the same as well. Back 2013, Rsia passed a law stoppg “gay propaganda” beg available to people unr the age of 18. Although homosexualy is legal the untry, the thori are allowed to block accs to webs emed to promote .

And the se of Overwatch, Tracer beg gay don’t feel like ’s a forced thg jt to appease the social jtice warrrs of the ter, somethg Marvel is known to do. In se you’re wonrg, Rsia didn’t block the ic out of hatred bee if they did, homosexual marriage wouldn’t have been legal the untry. Overwatch is one of the hottt releas of the year and, for Christmas, Blizzard is givg queer gamers a special treat: The game's first nonilly gay a new holiday-themed web ic, we see Tracer celebratg Christmas wh her girliend, Ey, and their gorilla pal, the ic, the speedster is worried she won't be able to get Ey a prent time, but the suatn rolv self a sweet have been by speculatg about a queer character the anchise, wh many assumg was Rsian badass Zarya.

Tracer is, fact, still gay Cha, so is S76 - General Discsn - Overwatch Foms.

A NEW OVERWATCH IC CELEBRAT THE HOLIDAYS AND TABLISH THAT TRACER IS GAY

The Inter Reacts To Tracer Beg Gay.

As expected, gamers have different kds of reactns to the revelatn that Tracer is gay. And, there's somethg to be said for unrstatg someone's sexualy, the way The Last of Us did wh Bill – a character who jt so happened to be gay, but was never ma to "a thg.

OVERWATCH'S TRACER REVEALED AS GAY; BLIZZARD WON'T RELEASE WEBIC  RSIA

Some have also argued that a more challengg paradigm shift would be the cln of gay male characters – some have even suggted elevatg the bromance of Roadhog and Junkrat, two male characters that emphasize hyper-masculy. Leonoardo Da Vci has long been theorized to have been homosexual, by many different historil rearchers.

RnrnWhat Bill has over all of the other characters that he jt so happens to be gay - the game never ma a huge al out of , and if you don't pick up a note that reveals he had a hband, you would never 's like what Barack Obama said was the bt part about Rsell Wilson beg only the send Ain-Amerin Quarterback to w a Super Bowl: the fact that no one talked about .

Msag cryg Blizzard's "mistake" have cropped up all over the Overwatch foms and other social media, untered by others praisg the stud for explicly statg— a low-key fashn—that the face of one of the biggt gam of the year is gay. INTERNET: Let Tracer's butt be the way Blizzard wants 's their visnBLIZZARD: Tracer has a girliendINTERNET: Tracer n't be gay WTFDecember 20, 2016See moreThe social media storm was predictable—rell the great Butt Controversy of April—but really shouldn't e as any surprise that Blizzard is takg this kd of matter-of-fact approach to s characters. Now, the latt Overwatch webic has revealed that the character is gay.

THE BT REACTNS TO TRACER BEG GAY OVERWATCH

While some have appld Blizzard's cisn to troduce a gay character and the low-key way was revealed, many Twter ers and those on Overwatch's foms haven't been as welg. And at BlizzCon 2015, Overwatch artistic director Bill Petras nfirmed there would be a gay character the multiplayer shooter; Chris Metzen, Blizzard Entertament's senr vice print of creative sign and story velopment, said there would be more than one. One regn that isn't happy about Tracer beg a lbian is Rsia, where "gay propaganda" is illegal.

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