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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. 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.

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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. Based part on gay Stud 54 -proprietor Steve Rubell, Gay Tony mak his first appearance GTA IV and eventually spir his own downloadable ntent package, The Ballad of Gay TatsumiPersona 4's Kanji is never explicly revealed as gay over the urse of the game, but given his flamboyant personaly, his fay backstory, and a narrative climax that revolv around acceptg himself for who he is, there are few other nclns to draw. "There's no official answer" to the qutn of Kanji's sexualy, acrdg to veloper Yu Namba, but Shadow Kanji sure seems gay.

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But rather than attag that tend (and pletely patronizg toward women) rult, Rupert stead reveals himself as gay.

Jordan Thomas, the game's narrative director, says Weir is a closeted gay man alg wh world lears a nservative time. EagleOK, so the gay English butler may seem a b of a cliche, but add a penchant for stick-fightg martial arts and you have a gaymer in on your hands.

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