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- VIO GAME CHARACTERS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
- VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
- THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
VIO GAME CHARACTERS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
* video game characters that are gay *
Dorian is proud of who he is, both as a gay man and as a Tevter mage.
Gay Tony (Grand Theft Auto).
In 2009, Rockstar Gam released The Ballad of Gay Tony, a GTA4 expansn pack about a dg-addled nightclub owner. Overly hetero bros need not worry about playg gay, though: players actually ntrol the part of Tony’s straight bodyguard.
VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
In a post-apolyptic world, hero Joel and Ellie enter the booby-trapped town of Lln, which is n by a paranoid gay man named Bill. The character was noted by GLAAD for s pictn of a gay man as a regular person, albe a paranoid one trapped a nightmarish hellspe. Alvane is revealed to be gay the third chapter, released this past summer.
The cis-normative stranglehold on vio gam has started to weaken wh the cln of gay, bisexual, tersex and asexual characters key rol the medium's biggt anchis. One of gamg’s most famo gay characters is Ellie om The Last of Us (2013). They also heavily imply that he is gay – somethg which chim wh historil rerd – as he tells Ez “women provi ltle distractn”.
THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
As her story unfolds we learn about Sam’s girliend Lonnie, how the two sperately tried to pe the homophobia of ral 90s Ameri and fai who didn’t unrstand or accept them.
John Carey disvers Hickman fact equented a Wt Hollywood gay bar, the Short Stop, and was secretly a McCormackAnother gay rpse who driv the plot, Danny McCormack is the tranged son of Orn Conspiracy ma character Devl McCormack, who vtigat his son's murr and disvers the tth about his Danny's sexualy when he enunters his late son's boyiend Steve Kffman -- who also gets murred. While the character's sexualy is never ma explic, the clear symbolism of lynthropy and homosexualy -- never md that tle -- bleeds through the CraigPhantasmagoria 2, a mature-themed and largely fotten Sierra adventure game, happens to feature the first playable vio game character who is not explicly heterosexual.
Creator Neil Dckman has nfirmed the character is gay, even though when she was created as a 14-year-old a post-apolyptic world, that wasn't necsarily planned. Anthony "Gay Tony" PrceAs his nickname dit, the reigng kg of Liberty Cy nightlife the Grand Theft Auto anchise ed lik dus.