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Contents:

• GAYTALY: ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER KICKS SEVEN SHAS OUT OF THE RABOW
• THE FIGHT TO GET GAY VIO GAM
• WATCH: LGBT CULTURE BE FIERCE ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER VIO GAME
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, LUCHA HOMO Y BISEXUAL
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER GUI
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FORCED TO CHANGE ITS NAME
• ‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE
• IS ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FUNNY OR JT OFFENSIVE?
• NEW TRAILER FOR ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, THE "WORLD'S FIRST EVER GAY VIO GAME"
• ‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’ IS A VIO GAME FOR LGBT MUNY
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER TO CHANGE NAME RPONSE TO LEGAL TANGLE
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER"IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE HATEFUL"
• DARLG, PREPARE TO PLAY ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER
• GAYMG: ‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’
• 'ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER' VIO GAME TO BE RELEASED BY HANDSOME WOMAN PRODUCTNS
• ‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’ FORCED TO CHANGE NAME
• ARE THERE ANY OPENLY GAY FIGHTERS IN THE UFC (MALE & FEMALE)?
• STREET FIGHTER JT GOT A HELL OF A LOT GAYER
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER - NEW FIGHTG GAME FOR IOS
• THIS OFFENSIVE GAY-THEMED VIO GAME PS GAY FIGHTERS AGAST HOMOPHOB
• DAKOTA COCHRANE OF ULTIMATE FIGHTER 15 DID GAY PORN FOR SEAN CODY
• WATCH: MEET THE VIO GAME VILLAS OF ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER
• “ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER” BRGS MORTAL KOMBAT-STYLE ACTN AND GAY STEREOTYP TO YOUR MOBILE DEVICE
• IS ULTIMATE FIGHTG GAY?
• GAY-OKAY: CHUCK LIDLL AND JOSEPH BENAVIZ OPEN TO HOMOSEXUAL UFC FIGHTERS, BUT JON JON WOULD 'RATHER NOT MENT'
• UFC: DOMICK CZ HAS NO PROBLEM WH FIGHTER'S GAY PORN PAST

GAYTALY: ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER KICKS SEVEN SHAS OUT OF THE RABOW

Lookg to wa through this maelstrom is Ultimate Gay Fighter (UGF) a 2D beat ‘em up for mobile vic veloped by New York-based Handsome Woman Productns. ’ It’s a ntent claim, as other gam exist that al meangfully wh facets of homosexualy, om smaller personal projects such as Mattie Brice’s Maichi, which puts you through a day the life of a transgenr person, to massive anchis like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. On the ntrary, he believ that, should UGF fail, uld help other gay vio gam by creatg a hunger for somethg better, and spire other velopers to top his effort.

THE FIGHT TO GET GAY VIO GAM

Seeg all the over-the-top stum and floats that make the para such a legendary event, he began to joke wh his iends about what would be like to have a fightg game—a genre long celebrated for s ridiculons and mp nature—featurg entirely gay characters.

WATCH: LGBT CULTURE BE FIERCE ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER VIO GAME

And fally, last month, he unveiled his visn to the general public: Ultimate Gay Fighter, scribed on s webse as "the world's first ever gay vio game…ever!!!! Jt last week, UGF announced that had partnered wh the pennt mobile game veloper Beard Man Studs to brg a “bigger and better Ultimate Gay Fighter very soon.

Todd Harper, a postdoctoral rearcher at MIT's game lab and thor of the book The Culture of Digal Fightg Gam, told me that part of the challenge Ultimate Gay Fighter fac here is one that a lot of gam face on some level, pecially this genre.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER

“But now that you mentn , part of me would really love to see the space mar StarCraft prancg around stiletto heels…”Toni Roc, CEO and print of the LGBT-foced vio game nventn GaymerX, don't thk that Patrick's loyalty to genre nventns is to blame here. "While Mass Effect players uld pursue lbian relatnships for the entire seri, wasn't until the third game they uld be a gay is right that there are now many posive exampl of LGBT voic vio gam.

In recent years, high-profile velopers like BWare have released blockbter gam such as Mass Effect, which lets players star their own space opera as openly gay characters who n pursue same-sex relatnships (though that didn't happen until the third game the trilogy) the right way, Dragon Age, another of Bware's gam, ntas a Brokeback Mounta-que subplot about one of s male characters abandong the player to marry a woman and honor his noble leage when he's required to assume the throne. And jt this month, Sony and veloper Nghty Dog released an expansn to 2013’s crilly acclaimed zombie epic The Last of Us which ntaed a surprisg revelatn that Ellie, a teenage girl who’s one of the two playable characters, had a brief and tragic romantic tryst wh another other words, there are enough game velopers who intify as gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer that the fluential gamg se Polygon announced the emergence of a "queer gamg scene” last pared to other pop culture anchors like mic and film, the vio game dtry is still remarkably homogeno. Which gets to an important qutn: if billn dollar pani are havg such a hard time welg LGBT voic, is the work of one experienced gay man the real problem here?

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, LUCHA HOMO Y BISEXUAL

"Maybe we shouldn’t be spendg so much time pickg on an die veloper who ma some poor choic when a mastream veloper is still makg the 40th stallment some seri that's horribly racist and vlent and misogynist, " Roc Age was one of the first AAA gam that allowed players to pursue same-sex relatnships, plete wh awkward, Enya-fueled sex scen like the one shown creative dilemma that Harper highlighted, however, shows jt how subtle and enmic this kd of stutnalized homophobia is. In the tradn of Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Soul Calibur a new vio game that tak LGBT culture to a lethal (but entertag) level, Ultimate Gay vio game prents a fabulo twist on the hetero-domated word of fightg gam wh a wk and a nudge aimed at LGBT fightg fashnistas and fierce drag queens to lethal lbians and vastatg daddy bears, Ultimate Gay Fighter embrac stereotyp and aspects of queer culture to create a vio game that is a fun and empowerg piece of entertament.

Ultimate Gay Fighter is the brachild of Michal Patrick, who says the ia for the game origated "as a joke between my iends and me while we were drkg at bnch.

Se trata un título lucha para iOS entre gays, lbianas y bisexual sarrollado en excliva para disposivos móvil, y que b homenajear a los tereotipos l sector. Con to Patrick preten lmar los ánimos ntro una unidad que hace po elegía a un personaje viojuego, o Bill The Last of Us, o uno los que más ha hecho por ellos en la polémi, Ultimate Gay Fighter un juego lucha que ntará n 12 nivel disttos, logros y tablas clasifición onle.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER GUI

I thk the reason gets mentned a lot is bee, well's fely the most creativealsothis du is badassi n't rist parg all of this to 'LOL GAY BLACK THUG LOL' i gus. A nivel jugable el título ja mucho que sear, ntando n doce cenars, un sistema lucha 2D n spr y animacn n muy pos FPS y la posibilidad realizar “gaytali” al más puro Mortal Kombat. El juego lucha para móvil basado en 'Mortal Kombat' y cuyo elen tá formado por personaj homosexual (excivamente tereotipados), tiene un nuevo tráiler para los que peran su salida te mismo m.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FORCED TO CHANGE ITS NAME

You may not have heard of Ultimate Gay Fighter, but at least one heavyweight pany the MMA bs has, and wasn’t happy wh what se as an gement upon s tramark. The promotn, which Ultimate Gay Fighter veloper Handsome Woman Productns did not name (but you n probably figure out) threatened legal actn if the name wasn’t changed, and as a “mom and pop productn pany” the stud cid had no choice but to ply.

‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE

“We offered them solutns, but this pany remas firm believg our Ultimate Gay Fighter brand threatens their brand, spe vast differenc our ctomer base and product, ” he said. “We wanted to give our fans a chance to e up wh a new name for Ultimate Gay Fighter, knowg we’ve had your support throughout this journey – om the fan art you’ve given to the heartfelt msag we’ve received. Ultimate Fightg Champnship has e unr fire recent months for s homophobic past, wh LGBT groups llg on Anhser Bch to drop s sponsorship of UFC over the anizatn's failure to addrs homophobic behavr by s lears and athlet.

IS ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FUNNY OR JT OFFENSIVE?

Which may be why Dakota Cochrane, a former Sean Cody actor who has reportedly been more than 16 gay adult films and is now a nttant the realy seri The Ultimate Fighter, is gettg attentn. In Ultimate Gay Fighter, a forthg brawler for iOS and Android, players take on the role of a variety of inic gay ritur, cludg a drag queen, a butch lbian, an Asian 'twk', a gym bunny, a goln-cha wearg Ain-Amerin rapper and a dnken bisexual woman.

NEW TRAILER FOR ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, THE "WORLD'S FIRST EVER GAY VIO GAME"

At a time when vio gam are tentatively begng to offer up portrayals of gay characters, refully troduced by velopers keen to play fair and to seem utly even-hand, is a sparklg rabow of a game, splashg about mpy inography wh abandon. The game's crics say the humor is undone by stereotypil portrayals and a limed perspective, while Patrick, who is gay, says the game is supposed to be funny for anyone who enjoys the diversy of LGBT culture.

"This is a gay game marketed towards gay people which is a b weird bee assum that is what gay people want, " said Mattie Brice, a game veloper and mentator. "It seems like is ma for people who are fortable enough wh the stereotypg and token gays mastream media and gay scen to embrace wh tongue--cheek humor, " said Toni Roc, CEO of GaymerX.

‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’ IS A VIO GAME FOR LGBT MUNY

"Gay people are so eager to see themselv gam that when a gay character along and don't reprent them they do feel let down, bee there are so few exampl, " he said. On the game's portrayal of women and mori, he add that Ultimate Gay Fighter had been created by a team "prised of women and men of all walks of age, ethnicy, and sexualy. Developer Handsome Woman has released a new trailer for the Mortal Kombat-spired mobile game Ultimate Gay Fighter, which the New York Cy stud lls the "world's first ever gay vio "The trailer troduc players to some of the villas they will fight, cludg the polil pund Anne Payl, Maxx 2.

It featur 12 levels, achievements, and onle learboards, In addn, the game riffs on Mortal Kombat's famo "fatali" by allowg players to perform "gaytali.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER TO CHANGE NAME RPONSE TO LEGAL TANGLE

And fally, last month, he unveiled his visn to the general public: Ultimate Gay Fighter, scribed on s webse as “the world’s first ever gay vio game…ever!!!! Handsome Woman Productns' upg "gay-themed" fightg game, Ultimate Gay Fighter, is changg s name followg legal prsure om an unnamed mixed martial arts promotnal pany, the veloper announced today. We offered them solutns, but this pany remas firm believg our Ultimate Gay Fighter brand threatens their brand, spe vast differenc our ctomer base and product.

"We wanted to give our fans a chance to e up wh a new name for Ultimate Gay Fighter, knowg we've had your support throughout this journey — om the fan art you've given to the heartfelt msag we've received.

Michael Patrick, creator of 2D fightg game Ultimate Gay Fighter, has rpond to cricisms about his new game, scribed as the "world's first ever gay vio " In an terview wh VG247, Michael Patrick said he signed the game to be lighthearted nature.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER"IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE HATEFUL"

Patrick said the lighthearted approach to homosexualy that he is takg for Ultimate Gay Fighter is equently ed mediums like televisn and onle sketch.

DARLG, PREPARE TO PLAY ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER

As for why Ultimate Gay Fighter do not clu characters that reprent all sexual orientatns, cludg transsexual dividuals, Patrick said he wasn't able to vise a creative way to portray this group, so he simply left out. No the fighters are not overly happy and ntent they are all homosexual one form or another and are all fightg agast each other to be crowned the ultimate fighter. We’re not allowed to mock gay people if we are not gay but surely symbolisg a black man Ameri (veloped NYC) wh a noose around his neck is maybe gog a ltle too far?

The issue don’t solely rt on the shoulrs of UGF creator, Michael Patrick, but ’s also the larger game velopers who are not willg to produce gay rporative gam. In a brilliant subversn of the tradnally mascule world of fightg vio gam, Handsome Woman Productns is slated to release "Ultimate Gay Fighter, " a fightg game featurg characters who embody particular stereotyp om the LGBT muny, January 2014. In a siar format to the classic "Street Fighter, " "Ultimate Gay Fighter" will brg characters such as Bardwell the Leather Bear, voguer Devon Devastatn and drag queen Carrie Cupke right to your smartphone.

In a report g out of the putg and vio gamg world, a cellphone applitn tled ‘Ultimate Gay Fighter’ has been forced to change their name by an undisclosed Mixed Martial Arts Promotn.

GAYMG: ‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’

“We offered them solutns, but this pany remas firm believg our Ultimate Gay Fighter brand threatens their brand, spe vast differenc our ctomer base and product.

For stance, Amanda Nun, a female bantamweight fighter, ma history by beg the first openly gay fighter the UFC and the first female two-divisn champn.

Furthermore, Nick Rg, a fighter-nttant, was “exposed” as havg worked gay porn and produced a few films durg the 11th season of the UFC TV show on Spike’s “The Ultimate Fighter, ” or TUF.

'ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER' VIO GAME TO BE RELEASED BY HANDSOME WOMAN PRODUCTNS

However, the UFC will eventually be even more acceptg of openly gay fighters, and hopefully, soon, the athlet will only be judged on the performance they put on the le the ge, not on the basis of anythg else. Well for New York based graphic signer Michael Patrick, the early Street Fighter (pecially the troductn of badass female Chun Lee) and Madonna‘s -your-face gay-is-ok attu ma a lastg imprsn. If you haven’t already gused, Ultimate Gay Fighter featur a st of all-gay characters, and sce Patrick released a trailer for onle ’s generated a fair share of backlash.

We’ve been hearg a lot about gays and gamg lately, and unrstand that for Patrick, Ultimate Gay Fighter is an irreverent nod to how he felt as an adolcent fdg rpe the gamg world, a place where he uld behave unnventnally whout any real world nsequenc — even explore genr nonnformy by playg as female characters. I don't see what's offensive about - gay stereotyp like the fat drag queen, the voguer, the gym bunny, the twk the same way as Street Fighter natnaly and bat style stereotyp. In this game, there is nothg cril of the stereotyp ed - there is nothg the gameplay self which challeng them (apart om, perhaps, a vague notn that gay people are physilly weak) - and th my assertn that the sign of the game is at bt lazy and at worst grossly offensive.

‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’ FORCED TO CHANGE NAME

While I still stick to my origal ment about how fantastilly hilar the word "Gaytaly" is, and I uld maybe even lgh at "Homo Thug" given the right ntext, I jt.... " The story follows several homosexual batants as they jo the Gay Fight petn to feat the League of Opprsive Self Righteo Zealots (LOSRZ) game had the potential, a very heavy-hand kd of way, to act as a parable for fightg agast discrimatn.

In s poorly done satire, Ultimate Gay Fighter don't bat stereotyp — perpetuat punched, characters the game "bleed" rabows and a victory msage appears that reads, "You w! " The only bisexual character is an alholic who "enjoys lezzg out" (remdg that this world, "bisexual" jt means "a girl that's to girls, too") cred: 'Ultimate Gay Fighter'And the game don't stop at offendg gay people.

The only Asian character is lled "this Asian twk, " and the only black character is a rapper named "Shawe Killah" who wears a noose-like necklace (Patrick sists this is spired by old-school hip-hop) cred: 'Ultimate Gay Fighter'The LOSRZ clus propagandist polician Anne Payl, who an Amerin flag for "harpoong her most prized prey: Gay Humans.

ARE THERE ANY OPENLY GAY FIGHTERS IN THE UFC (MALE & FEMALE)?

And the lear of the group, "Preach, " is a wboy hat-wearg, ccifix-donng fighter who kills weaker gay people and reprograms the strongt to jo his "homophobic army" — a creatn that uniformly equat relign wh homophobia a stance that GLAAD self has spoken out may have been easier to view Ultimate Gay Fighter a more posive light had the creator's own statements about the game not been so problematic.

And when nonted wh the fact that the game foc primarily on the Amerin gay male to the excln of other unr-reprented groups, Patrick said that the game has no transgenr characters bee he "uld not thk of somethg creative" and "wanted to be funny. " Yet, Mass Effect and Dragon Age are jt two exampl of blockbter gam that have succsfully created gay characters; they simply don't have them don Chihuahuas or drs up like rabows (which isn't the norm for most gay people) cred: EA/Bware via YoutubePatrick adds, "If you allow yourself to make fun of a stereotype a way that isn't cel, I thk you dimish the power of that stereotype.

Interactive via WikiHere is the Amerin Jacky Bryant om Virtua Fighter: an uber-blon NASCAR cred: SegaAnd here is the Amerin Ta Armstrong Dead or Alive: an uber-blon WWE type cred: TecmoUltimate Gay Fighter ironilly arriv around the same time as the premiere FX's new show Chozen, another pictn of gay life that's filled wh unwarranted sexual cns and prison rape jok. MMA fighter Dakota Cochrane, who will be featured The Ultimate Fighter 15 on TV March 9, has been intified as gay porn actor "Danny" om the popular porn se, Sean Cody (that's him on the right the photo, taken om where there are lots of much more revealg photos).

STREET FIGHTER JT GOT A HELL OF A LOT GAYER

While straight MMA s might be sayg Cochrane's been "outed, " there are plenty of straight guys who are "gay for pay" (and Sean Cody claims that most of their porn actors are straight). While ’s never ma explicly clear what orientatn bt scrib Ryu, Johnny Cage, Guile, Sub-Zero, and the rt of the characters om smash ’90s fightg gam like Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat, the movi, rtoons, and cut-scen suggt that they’re mostly about a bunch of straight people beatg the hell out of each other (and ocsnally shootg each other wh fireballs and stuff)’s somethg that Michael Venker, creator of the Android/iOS game Ultimate Gay Fighter, se as a void the market.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER - NEW FIGHTG GAME FOR IOS

To that end, his game–which will be available on Google Play and the App Store January–is scribed as “the first gay vio game, ” and featur a llectn of gay stereotyp takg one another on btal head-to-head bat.

“I origally was tryg to wre a script, and I was ramblg off all my ane ias–and he was so foced on that one that after the date I agreed wh him: There were virtually no gam, let alone fightg on, wh all gay characters bad ass actn. ”To that end, the game featur var stereotyp of gay people, personified fightg form: Timmy Spears, “The Twk, ” n battle Sappho Ethridge, “The Lady Lover”; Gogo Gary n take on Bardwell, “The Bear” (who, to be fair, is really not all that different athetilly om Street Fighter II‘s Zangief); and so on.

THIS OFFENSIVE GAY-THEMED VIO GAME PS GAY FIGHTERS AGAST HOMOPHOB

”Still, while ’s tend as satire, ’s also not hard to image that any one of the characters Ultimate Gay Fighter uld have been legimately plugged to a Street Fighter II-style game–which rais the qutn of whether ’s as much a send-up of that tradn as ’s jt another his part, Venker has been a b surprised by the feedback he’s received om wh the gay muny.

DAKOTA COCHRANE OF ULTIMATE FIGHTER 15 DID GAY PORN FOR SEAN CODY

”Ultimately, “fighters” are what Venker is terted wh the gay muny–and if those fighters take on his own game for pictg gay fighters as “Gogo Boys” who attack their opponents wh tanng beds, the rult may be that everyone learns what an ultimate gay fighter looks like. By Matthew J Garcia, +2 morpdatedAug 2, 2011[[File:{{{image}}}|amels|216px||lk={{{sectn}}}]][[{{{sectn}}}]] [[{{{sectn}}}|(see all)]] [[{{{page1}}}]] [[{{{page2}}}]] [[{{{page3}}}]]advertisementUp Next: Ultimate Gay Fighter GuiPrevNextUltimate Gay Fighter GuiWas this gui helpful? Spokmen for profsnal boxg, which has seen a large share of s fan base gravate toward MMA, have been quick to acce their rivals of promotg gay porn.

They note the large number of gay men and straight women who have bee fans of MMA and attribute to the appeal of the nearly-naked hard bodi of the fighters and the timate, often pelvic techniqu of Brazilian Jiu-Jsu, the favored grapplg disciple the Buzski, the publisher of, a web se voted to gay sports fans and athlet that has unted NFL Network and ESPN Rad among s advertisers, lls MMA "trsilly homoerotic. "Perhaps acknowledgg MMA's pan-sexual appeal, Dana Whe, the print of the UFC, recently beme the first head of a major sports league to wele gay athlet.

UFC heavyweight champn Brock Lnar issued what ESPN scribed as "a curse-lan outburst" agast homosexuals when a female fan rmed him that her iend "Shawn" thought he was cute. "Spokmen for profsnal boxg, which has seen a large share of s fan base gravate toward MMA, have been quick to acce their rivals of promotg gay porn.

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In 1978 the anthropologist Alan Duns argued a famo scholarly article (which garnered several ath threats) that Amerin football reprented a form of homosexual rual bat which "the wners femize the losers by gettg to their end zone.

“ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER” BRGS MORTAL KOMBAT-STYLE ACTN AND GAY STEREOTYP TO YOUR MOBILE DEVICE

" Yet there has never been an openly gay male athlete a major Amerin be, given Dana Whe's apparent openns and the growg number of gay men drawn to MMA, that what is monly believed to be the manlit of sports will soon be the gayt?

Durg last week's NFL draft, Michael Sam ma more history for the gay and lbian muny after he beme the first gay athlete to be drafted; gettg picked by the St.

The ncept was simple: to reenact the favore fightg gam we played as kids, but to sert gays as the characters, wh mov that sued their specific liftyl and terts. ” Much like how the origal Mortal Kombat ed gore as a shock value to mask gameplay that was a ltle rough around the edg, Ultimate GAY FIGHTER looks to be dog the same jt havg extremely bad taste.

IS ULTIMATE FIGHTG GAY?

]In the macho world of mixed martial arts a gay fighter has yet to emerge the major league fight anizatns like the Ultimate Fightg on this upg season of “The Ultimate Fighter” the UFC and mixed martial arts will get their first lm tt of tolerance one Cochrane, wh 13 ws and two loss, is a blue chip prospect at lightweight but he wh a past. Cochrane, while llege, performed gay adult the story go Cochrane was experiencg fancial issu and ma a cisn to make money by performg gay pornography.

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