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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

* tracer gay comic *

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!

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 *

I was super aaid that the “surprise, gay!

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.

TRACER'S GIRLIEND INTRODUCED IN NEW "OVERWATCH" COMIC BOOKTHE RED-HOT GAME NOW HAS S FIRST GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYDECEMBER 20, 2016/4:45 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DAN AVERYDECEMBER 20, 2016 / 4:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"TRACER'S GIRLIEND INTRODUCED IN NEW \"OVERWATCH\" COMIC BOOK","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-12-20T21:45:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-12-20T21:45:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"GEEK","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}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 {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A NEW HOLIDAY-THEMED WEB IC, WE SEE TRACER CELEBRATG CHRISTMAS WH HER GIRLIEND, EY, AND THEIR GORILLA PAL, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE IC, THE SPEEDSTER IS WORRIED SHE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET EY A PRENT TIME, BUT THE SUATN ROLV SELF A SWEET {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FANS HAVE BEEN BY SPECULATG ABOUT A QUEER CHARACTER THE ANCHISE, WH MANY ASSUMG WAS RSIAN BADASS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IT’S VERY IMPORTANT FOR TO HAVE DIVERSY AND CLIVENS OF ALL TYP AND THAT CLUS LGBT CHARACTERS," LEAD WRER MICHAEL CHU TOLD FANS AT BLIZZCON LAST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A NOVEMBER TERVIEW WH KOTAKU, OVERWATCH SIGNER GEOFF GOODMAN NFIRMED THERE WAS A QUEER CHARACTER BUT SAID THE PANY DIDN'T "WANT TO JT BE WEIRDLY HEAVY-HAND" WH PRENTG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE HAVE ICS AND A BUNCH OF OTHER MEDIA TO SHOW THIS. 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The red-hot game now has s first gay character. * tracer gay comic *

Tracer is gay and that is wonrful.

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

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.

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

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.

“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.

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

Back 2013, Rsia passed a law stoppg “gay propaganda” beg available to people unr the age of 18.

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

Although homosexualy is legal the untry, the thori are allowed to block accs to webs emed to promote .

THE BT REACTNS TO TRACER BEG GAY OVERWATCH

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. The Inter Reacts To Tracer Beg Gay.

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