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• SO IS JAM POKEMON SUPPOSED TO BE GAY OR WAS THAT UNTEND?
• WAS JAM GAY POKEMON?
• THE QUEERT MOMENTS POKéMON HISTORYJAM BANVALLE·FOLLOW9 M READ·NOV 21, 2018--LISTENSHAREPOKéMON HAS A 22-YEAR HISTORY AND LGBTI FANS N’T GET ENOUGHKARL SLATER IS A SELF-NFSED ‘HUGE POKéMON FAN’. | PHOTO: THEOTHERKARL / INSTAGRAMI WAS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST BEME AWARE OF POKéMON. SOON AFTER, BEME AN OBSSN.I’D WAKE UP AND WATCH THE TV SHOW OVER BREAKFAST. THEN I’D GO TO SCHOOL AND DRAW POKéMON WH MY BT IEND DURG RECS. I’D TRA POKéMON RDS WH MY IENDS DURG LUNCH. THEN I’D E HOME AND PLAY POKéMON BLUE, WHILE MY TW BROTHER PLAYED POKéMON RED RIGHT NEXT TO ME.THE POKéMON ANCHISE OFFICIALLY BEGAN 1995, BUT THE FIRST GAME DIDN’T E OUT JAPAN UNTIL FEBARY 1996. OVER THE NEXT UPLE OF YEARS, THE GAM REACHED NORTH AMERI, EUROPE AND ATRALIA.WH EVERY NEW RELEASE, TRANSPORTED ME EPER AND EPER TO THE ANCHISE. NOW, AS AN ADULT, ’S EQUAL PARTS NOSTALGIA, PISM AND BELONGG BRGG ME BACK TO POKéMON EACH TIME.AND I’M NOT ALONE.A LOT OF PEOPLE WH THE LGBTI MUNY LOVE POKéMON.THERE’S SOMETHG ABOUT THE ANCHISE THAT DRAWS LGBTI DIENC , APPEALG TO SPECIFIC AREAS OF THEIR GENR INTY AND SEXUALY.LAST WEEK, I WENT TO GO SEE THE LATT MOVIE RELEASE — POKéMON THE MOVIE: THE POWER OF US. THIS FILM MAK A TOTAL NUMBER OF 21 FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS FOR THE ANCHISE.IT’S A FILM THAT LIVERS ON THE FORMULAIC SUCCS OF THE BRAND — FEATURG CUTE CHARACTERS, NEW STORYL AND PLENTY OF RABOW MOTIFS.THE MIC, NARRATN AND LEAD CHARACTER WILL ALL BE FAIAR TO A VETERAN VIEWER OF THE ANCHISE. AND THAT SENSE OF NOSTALGIA KEEPS BRGG DIENC BACK.BUT LOOKG AROUND THE MOVIE THEATRE MA ME REALIZE THE CULTURAL IMPACT HAS ON LGBTI PEOPLE.KYLE STEWART, 30, OM ENGLAND HAS BEEN PLAYG POKéMON THROUGHOUT S 22-YEAR HISTORY.HE TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘GROWG UP AS A MIXED RACE, GAY KID RAL NORFOLK AT A SCHOOL WHERE A STAGGERG MAJORY OF THE PUPILS WERE WHE AND STRAIGHT, I NATURALLY HAD A HARD TIME FTG .’HE FOUND HIMSELF WHDRAWG OM SOCIAL TERACTNS AT SCHOOL, OPTG STEAD TO PLAY POKéMON BY HIMSELF THE RNER OF THE PLAYGROUND. IT HELPED HIM PE.UNTIL ONE DAY, A GROUP OF KIDS APPROACHED HIM AND THEY ALL BOND OVER POKéMON. THEY BEME GREAT IENDS AND WENT THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER.KYLE SAID: ‘THEY SUPPORTED ME THROUGH MY G OUT, AND WE REMA IENDS TO THIS DAY.‘AND THAT LOVE OF POKéMON NEVER REALLY LEFT. MY PARTNER AND I LOVE GOG ON POKéMON GO WALKS MOST WEEKENDS,’ HE SAID.THERE ARE A TONNE OF REASONS WHY LGBTI DIENC NNECT WH THE POKéMON ANCHISE. SO LET’S START WH THE TV SHOW.JSIE AND JAM AREN’T STRAIGHTWHILE ’S NEVER ACTUALLY EXPLICLY MENTNED, THERE ARE SEVERAL OBV MOMENTS WHEN ’S IMPLIED TEAM ROCKET’S JSIE AND JAM AREN’T STRAIGHT.THE MOST OBV CLUE IS EPISO 52 OF SEASON THREE, ENTLED THE FORTUNE HUNTERS.IN THE EPISO, TEAM ROCKET’S BUTCH (Y, THE CHARACTER’S NAME IS BUTCH) AND CASSIDY — AN OBV REFERENCE TO AMERIN CRIMAL BUTCH CASSIDY — NVCE JAM HIS PERFECT POKéMON IS THE LEGENDARY FIRE BIRD MOLTR.THEN JAM DRS UP A FORM-FTG MOLTR STUME AND SAYS: ‘I AM A FLAMG MOLTR!’MEOWTH CHIM : ‘THAT OUTF — WHERE’D HE GET ?’THEN JSIE SAYS: ‘I THK THAT STUME ME RIGHT OUT OF HIS CLOSET.’THERE’S ALSO AN EPISO OF JAM WH FAKE BOOBS THAT NEVER MA TO ENGLISH-SPEAKG DIENC.IN THE EPISO, BOTH JSIE AND JAM TALK ABOUT THEIR LOVE OF DRAG. JSIE PREFERS A MORE MASCULE LOOK, WHILE JAM LOV EMBRACG HIS FEME SI.THE EPISO LAT WH JAM GETTG A BLOW-UP CHT AND PETG AGAST JSIE AND MISTY A BEACH BETY NTT.MISTY SAYS: ‘JAM! I THOUGHT YOU WERE MALE!’AND JAM REPLI: ‘SO WHAT? AS LONG AS I’M BETIFUL, DON’T MATTER.’JAM ALSO SAYS ONE EPISO: ‘IT’S TIM LIKE THE THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GO STRAIGHT.’WHILE ’S PROBABLY MORE LIKELY HE’S TALKG ABOUT GOG ‘STRAIGHT’ — AS LEAVG A LIFE OF CRIME — MANY BELIEVE ’S AN ALLN TO HIS SEXUALY.BUT IF JSIE AND JAM ARE NOT GAY, THEY’RE AT LEAST ASEXUAL.IN POKéMON THE MOVIE 2000: THE POWER OF ONE, JSIE AND JAM WEIGH ON MARRIAGE.JSIE SAYS: ‘LISTEN TO ME KID, WHEN YOU GET VOLVED WH THE OPPOSE SEX YOU’RE ONLY ASKG FOR TROUBLE.’JAM REPLI: ‘Y, AND THAT’S THE KD OF TROUBLE I STAY OUT OF!’TEAM ROCKET ARE GAY/LBIAN SOLIDARY AND MEOWTH IS A MSY BISEXUAL. - ✨ HAMISH STEELE ✨ (@HAMISHSTEELE) NOVEMBER 10, 2018TRANSGENR POKéFANSIN THE FIRST FEW GAM OF THE POKéMON ANCHISE, ERS N CHOOSE THE NAME OF THEIR PLAYABLE CHARACTER. THEN LATER STALMENTS OF THE GAME, YOU N CHOOSE YOUR OWN GENR.IN POKéMON X, FOR EXAMPLE, POKéMON PROFSOR AUGTE SYMORE ASKS AT THE START OF THE GAME: ‘ARE YOU A BOY? OR ARE YOU A GIRL?’ THEY ALSO OFFER OPTNS OF SK TONE.AND THE LATT RELEASE, POKéMON LETS GO, THEY SIMPLY ASK: ‘WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE?’CHARLIE, 23, IS A TRANS MAN AND SAYS THE REASON HE LOV POKéMON IS BEE ‘GENR IS PRACTILLY MEANGLS ’.HE TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘YOU HAVE A LOT OF VIO GAM WHERE WOMEN ARE SEXUALIZED, OR YOU N ONLY PLAY AS A MALE. IN POKéMON, YOU N PLAY AS MALE OR FEMALE AND YOUR POWERS AND HOW OTHERS TERACT WH YOU DON’T CHANGE DUE TO YOUR PRENTATN THE GAME.‘GYM LEARS N BE WOMEN OR MEN AND THEY DON’T MAKE A FEMALE GYM LEAR A JOKE,’ HE SAID.HIS FAVORE POKéMON IS EEVEE.‘THERE’S SO MUCH POTENTIAL OF WHAT N BE,’ CHARLIE SAID.EEVEE N EVOLVE TO EIGHT DIFFERENT POKéMON — JOLTEON, FLAREON, VAPOREAN, UMBREON, ESPEON, LEAFEON, GLACEON AND SYLVEON.‘IT KDA GIV ME HOPE,’ CHARLIE SAID.IN THE FIRST EVER POKéMON MOVIE — MEWTWO STRIK BACK — THERE IS A WILY-ED QUOTE TRANS CIRCL OM MEWTWO.IN AN EPIC BATTLE, MEWTWO S PSYCHIC ABILI TO EEZE ASH AND THEN PIKACHU TRI TO REVIVE HIM WH HIS ELECTRIC SHOCKS.WHEN PIKACHU FAILS, HE STARTS TO CRY. PIKACHU’S TEARS THEN BRG ASH BACK TO LIFE.MEWTWO SAYS: ‘I SEE NOW THAT THE CIRCUMSTANC OF ONE’S BIRTH ARE IRRELEVANT. IT IS WHAT YOU DO WH THE GIFT OF LIFE THAT TERM WHO YOU ARE.’NON-BARY AND GENR FLUID ERSTHERE ARE A BUNCH OF GENRLS POKéMON.ACRDG TO BULBAPEDIA, THERE ARE 106 POKéMON THAT DON’T HAVE A GENR. JT THE FIRST GENERATN ALONE, THE GENRLS POKéMON CLU: MAGNEME, MAGON, STARYU, STARMIE, VOLTORB, ELECTRO, PORYGON, MEW, MEWTWO, ZAPDOS, ARTICUNO AND MOLTR.BUT ONE HUGELY POPULAR GENRLS POKéMON OM GENERATN ONE IS DTO.THE LTLE PK BLOB ONLY HAS ONE MOVE: TRANSFORM. IT N TRANSFORM TO ANY POKéMON AND MIMIC EVERYTHG S OPPONENT DO.FOR THIS REASON, ’S BEE SOMEWHAT OF A SYMBOL FOR SOME PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS NON-BARY OR GENR FLUID.DEE, 32, INTIFI AS FEMME NON-BARY AND SAID THEY NEVER FELT BOXED TO GENR BY THE POKéMON GAM.‘UNLIKE MOST GAM AT THE TIME, DID NOT CREATE AN ATHETIC FOR THE PROTAGONIST THAT I ULDN’T INTIFY WH,’ DEE SAID. ‘IT GAVE ME A BLANK PROTAGONIST I ULD “RATE” WHICHEVER WAY I WANTED.’WHEN POKéMON GO FIRST ME OUT 2016, THE GAME ASKED ERS TO CHOOSE THEIR ‘STYLE’ STEAD OF THEIR GENR.FANS PRAISED THE IATIVE AS WAS A CLEAR MOVE FOR NON-BARY AND GENR FLUID PLAYERS.LGBTI PEOPLE AND PISMAS WH ANY ROLEPLAYG GAME, THE POKéMON GAM N BE A WAY OF LGBTI PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE PISM OM THEIR EVERYDAY LIV, CHOOSG ALTERNATE REALI FOR THEMSELV.KIERAN LOWE, 30, OM LONDON HAS BEEN PLAYG POKéMON SCE FIRST ME OUT. HE LEANED ON POKéMON WHILE GROWG UP AS A WAY TO PE HIS CHILDHOOD.‘I WAS QUE LONELY AND AT THAT POT DIDN’T HAVE IENDSHIPS THAT FELT THENTIC,’ HE SAID. ‘YOU GET TO SET OUT ON YOUR OWN JOURNEY AT PUBERTY, TO LLECT YOUR OWN IENDS, WHO WILL LOVE YOU SO MUCH THEY’LL FIGHT FOR YOU.‘AND ALSO THEY’RE CUTE OR FABULO CREATUR,’ HE SAID.KARL SLATER, 35, OM LONDON ALSO ED POKéMON AS A WAY OF PISM. HE SAID HE WAS BULLIED AT SCHOOL AND WAS ALSO HAVG PROBLEMS AT HOME.HE SAID: ‘LATER LIFE, POKéMON BEME MORE NNECTED TO MY QUEERNS, OPENLY LLECTG THE TOYS AND NOT BEG ASHAMED OF . KNOWG THAT YOU N STILL BE A MAN AND ENJOY CHILD-LIKE THGS. BEG A GAY MAN, YOU DON’T HAVE TO PLAY BY THE L OF TRADNAL MASCULY.’KARL ADD: ‘MAYBE ON SOME LEVEL, EVOLVG A WEAK POKéMON TO A STRONGER MORE POWERFUL ONE TOLD ME I N ALWAYS GROW AND EVOLVE PAST ANY PROBLEMS OR INTY ISSU I HAD G TO TERMS WH MY SEXUALY.’DAVID, 32, OM LONDON AGRE.HE SAID: ‘IF YOU WERE AN AWKWARD, SHY, BULLIED 12-YEAR-OLD, THEN POKEMON WAS A PERFECT PE.‘IT PRENTED A WORLD OF POSSIBILI WHERE YOU ULD ADVENTURE AND BE NTROL,’ DAVID SAID.IT’S A SIAR STORY FOR JACK FLYNN (NOT HIS REAL NAME) WHO IS 24 AND LIV SOMERSET, ENGLAND.HE’S NOT OUT TO HIS IENDS AND FAY AS GAY AND SAID PLAYG POKéMON GIV HIM A SENSE OF POWER AND NTROL OVER HIS LIFE.‘I’VE ALWAYS FOUND POKéMON TO MAKE ME FEEL ODDLY SAFE,’ JACK SAID. ‘SORT OF LIKE A FEELG THAT THAT WORLD, NOTHG BAD N HAPPEN.‘I HAVE ANXIETY [SO] I TEND TO EAK OUT A LOT. POKéMON HAS HELPED ME RELAX.‘[I] GET QUE ANX WHEN TO GAY STUFF BEE I N’T BE MY TE SELF AT HOME, AND I N DO THAT POKéMON,’ HE SAID.USG POKéMON TO NNECT WH OTHERSONE OF THE BT THGS ABOUT THE LATT RELEAS OF THE POKéMON ANCHISE IS S ABILY TO NNECT LGBTI PLAYERS.WH THE RISE OF POKéMON GO AND S GAMEPLAY THAT ENURAG PEOPLE TO NNECT, TERACT AND MEET OTHER PLAYERS THE REAL WORLD, ’S ED A STIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA.PHILIP NORMAL, 36, SAYS THE ‘WHOLE NCEPT OF POKéMON IS ABOUT IENDSHIP’.HE NTUED: ‘I’VE EXPERIENCED NOT ONLY MAKG NEW IENDS THROUGH THE GAME, BUT BONDG WH PEOPLE FURTHER THAT I ALREADY KNOW.‘FROM THE BEGNG, POKEMON HAS CELEBRATED PEOPLE’S DIFFERENC AND DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, AND WHEN YOU’RE GROWG UP AND YOU KNOW YOU’RE A B DIFFERENT, ’S GOOD TO HAVE POSIVE MSAGG,’ HE SAID.KIERAN LOWE SAID HE’S ALWAYS HAD A PASSN FOR , BUT HAS ONLY RECENTLY UTILIZED THE GAME TO MAKE IENDS.‘I ONLY RECENTLY, VIA TWTER AND LONDON’S GAYMERS GROUP REALLY REALIZED HOW MANY OTHER ADULT GAY GUYS PLAYED POKEMON.‘AND I GUS THE POPULARY OF POKéMON GO 2016 MA ME LS SHY ABOUT AS A PASSN.‘I THOUGHT WAS PRETTY ODD AND GEEKY BEFORE THAT, AND BEE I HAD NO TERT OF TERACTG WH YOUR AVERAGE (STRAIGHT, YOUNGER) GAMER ONLE, I DIDN’T SEE AS A SOCIAL THG,’ HE SAID.ADAM KAPLAN, 26, IS A GAY MAN OM GLASGOW AND SAID POKéMON HELPS HIM NNECT TO HIS LLEAGU AT WORK A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY.POKéMON HELPS HIM ‘PERFORM HIS QUEERNS’.HE SAID: ‘I’VE TEND TO WORK PLAC WHERE I’VE BEEN THE ONLY QUEER PERSON OR PERSON MY AGE.‘I KNOW I N’T SPEAK DRAG RACE QUOT, CARLY RAE JEPSEN LYRICS OR E WEARG MH — AS MUCH AS I’VE BEEN TEMPTED — BEE WOULD JT BE TOO OUT THERE.‘BUT I N E WEARG MY EEVEELUTNS SWEATSHIRT OR HAVE MY POKéMON GO WATCH ON AND KD OF REPRENT MYSELF A WAY THAT’S STILL ACCSIBLE TO OTHERS.‘IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHG TRSILLY “ME” THAT I N OPENLY SHARE AND THAT PEOPLE N UNRSTAND AND BE POSIVE ABOUT, WHICH N BE A RARE FEELG WHEN YOU’RE A QUEER PERSON A STRAIGHT ENVIRONMENT,’ HE SAID.IT’S BEEN OVER 20 YEARS SCE THE POKéMON ANCHISE TOOK OVER THE WORLD AND ’S UNLIKELY TO GO ANYWHERE ANYTIME SOON.POKéMON THE MOVIE: THE POWER OF US IS CEMAS THE UK AND IRELAND ON 24 NOVEMBER AND 1 DECEMBER. 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SO IS JAM POKEMON SUPPOSED TO BE GAY OR WAS THAT UNTEND?

So is Jam Pokemon supposed to be gay or was that untend?

While there's nothg that says that he is gay the show, his send voice actor, Eric Stuart played him as though he was. You n crossdrs whout beg gay. Let’s learn was Jam gay Pokemon.

WAS JAM GAY POKEMON?

He's not gay. Is Louis Walsh gay?

Do gay people the Middle East have civil rights? How n I tell if the girl is straight or gay? Pl, when the two e together, they are as gay and extra as possible.

THE QUEERT MOMENTS POKéMON HISTORYJAM BANVALLE·FOLLOW9 M READ·NOV 21, 2018--LISTENSHAREPOKéMON HAS A 22-YEAR HISTORY AND LGBTI FANS N’T GET ENOUGHKARL SLATER IS A SELF-NFSED ‘HUGE POKéMON FAN’. | PHOTO: THEOTHERKARL / INSTAGRAMI WAS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST BEME AWARE OF POKéMON. SOON AFTER, BEME AN OBSSN.I’D WAKE UP AND WATCH THE TV SHOW OVER BREAKFAST. THEN I’D GO TO SCHOOL AND DRAW POKéMON WH MY BT IEND DURG RECS. I’D TRA POKéMON RDS WH MY IENDS DURG LUNCH. THEN I’D E HOME AND PLAY POKéMON BLUE, WHILE MY TW BROTHER PLAYED POKéMON RED RIGHT NEXT TO ME.THE POKéMON ANCHISE OFFICIALLY BEGAN 1995, BUT THE FIRST GAME DIDN’T E OUT JAPAN UNTIL FEBARY 1996. OVER THE NEXT UPLE OF YEARS, THE GAM REACHED NORTH AMERI, EUROPE AND ATRALIA.WH EVERY NEW RELEASE, TRANSPORTED ME EPER AND EPER TO THE ANCHISE. NOW, AS AN ADULT, ’S EQUAL PARTS NOSTALGIA, PISM AND BELONGG BRGG ME BACK TO POKéMON EACH TIME.AND I’M NOT ALONE.A LOT OF PEOPLE WH THE LGBTI MUNY LOVE POKéMON.THERE’S SOMETHG ABOUT THE ANCHISE THAT DRAWS LGBTI DIENC , APPEALG TO SPECIFIC AREAS OF THEIR GENR INTY AND SEXUALY.LAST WEEK, I WENT TO GO SEE THE LATT MOVIE RELEASE — POKéMON THE MOVIE: THE POWER OF US. THIS FILM MAK A TOTAL NUMBER OF 21 FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS FOR THE ANCHISE.IT’S A FILM THAT LIVERS ON THE FORMULAIC SUCCS OF THE BRAND — FEATURG CUTE CHARACTERS, NEW STORYL AND PLENTY OF RABOW MOTIFS.THE MIC, NARRATN AND LEAD CHARACTER WILL ALL BE FAIAR TO A VETERAN VIEWER OF THE ANCHISE. AND THAT SENSE OF NOSTALGIA KEEPS BRGG DIENC BACK.BUT LOOKG AROUND THE MOVIE THEATRE MA ME REALIZE THE CULTURAL IMPACT HAS ON LGBTI PEOPLE.KYLE STEWART, 30, OM ENGLAND HAS BEEN PLAYG POKéMON THROUGHOUT S 22-YEAR HISTORY.HE TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘GROWG UP AS A MIXED RACE, GAY KID RAL NORFOLK AT A SCHOOL WHERE A STAGGERG MAJORY OF THE PUPILS WERE WHE AND STRAIGHT, I NATURALLY HAD A HARD TIME FTG .’HE FOUND HIMSELF WHDRAWG OM SOCIAL TERACTNS AT SCHOOL, OPTG STEAD TO PLAY POKéMON BY HIMSELF THE RNER OF THE PLAYGROUND. IT HELPED HIM PE.UNTIL ONE DAY, A GROUP OF KIDS APPROACHED HIM AND THEY ALL BOND OVER POKéMON. THEY BEME GREAT IENDS AND WENT THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER.KYLE SAID: ‘THEY SUPPORTED ME THROUGH MY G OUT, AND WE REMA IENDS TO THIS DAY.‘AND THAT LOVE OF POKéMON NEVER REALLY LEFT. MY PARTNER AND I LOVE GOG ON POKéMON GO WALKS MOST WEEKENDS,’ HE SAID.THERE ARE A TONNE OF REASONS WHY LGBTI DIENC NNECT WH THE POKéMON ANCHISE. SO LET’S START WH THE TV SHOW.JSIE AND JAM AREN’T STRAIGHTWHILE ’S NEVER ACTUALLY EXPLICLY MENTNED, THERE ARE SEVERAL OBV MOMENTS WHEN ’S IMPLIED TEAM ROCKET’S JSIE AND JAM AREN’T STRAIGHT.THE MOST OBV CLUE IS EPISO 52 OF SEASON THREE, ENTLED THE FORTUNE HUNTERS.IN THE EPISO, TEAM ROCKET’S BUTCH (Y, THE CHARACTER’S NAME IS BUTCH) AND CASSIDY — AN OBV REFERENCE TO AMERIN CRIMAL BUTCH CASSIDY — NVCE JAM HIS PERFECT POKéMON IS THE LEGENDARY FIRE BIRD MOLTR.THEN JAM DRS UP A FORM-FTG MOLTR STUME AND SAYS: ‘I AM A FLAMG MOLTR!’MEOWTH CHIM : ‘THAT OUTF — WHERE’D HE GET ?’THEN JSIE SAYS: ‘I THK THAT STUME ME RIGHT OUT OF HIS CLOSET.’THERE’S ALSO AN EPISO OF JAM WH FAKE BOOBS THAT NEVER MA TO ENGLISH-SPEAKG DIENC.IN THE EPISO, BOTH JSIE AND JAM TALK ABOUT THEIR LOVE OF DRAG. JSIE PREFERS A MORE MASCULE LOOK, WHILE JAM LOV EMBRACG HIS FEME SI.THE EPISO LAT WH JAM GETTG A BLOW-UP CHT AND PETG AGAST JSIE AND MISTY A BEACH BETY NTT.MISTY SAYS: ‘JAM! I THOUGHT YOU WERE MALE!’AND JAM REPLI: ‘SO WHAT? AS LONG AS I’M BETIFUL, DON’T MATTER.’JAM ALSO SAYS ONE EPISO: ‘IT’S TIM LIKE THE THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GO STRAIGHT.’WHILE ’S PROBABLY MORE LIKELY HE’S TALKG ABOUT GOG ‘STRAIGHT’ — AS LEAVG A LIFE OF CRIME — MANY BELIEVE ’S AN ALLN TO HIS SEXUALY.BUT IF JSIE AND JAM ARE NOT GAY, THEY’RE AT LEAST ASEXUAL.IN POKéMON THE MOVIE 2000: THE POWER OF ONE, JSIE AND JAM WEIGH ON MARRIAGE.JSIE SAYS: ‘LISTEN TO ME KID, WHEN YOU GET VOLVED WH THE OPPOSE SEX YOU’RE ONLY ASKG FOR TROUBLE.’JAM REPLI: ‘Y, AND THAT’S THE KD OF TROUBLE I STAY OUT OF!’TEAM ROCKET ARE GAY/LBIAN SOLIDARY AND MEOWTH IS A MSY BISEXUAL. - ✨ HAMISH STEELE ✨ (@HAMISHSTEELE) NOVEMBER 10, 2018TRANSGENR POKéFANSIN THE FIRST FEW GAM OF THE POKéMON ANCHISE, ERS N CHOOSE THE NAME OF THEIR PLAYABLE CHARACTER. THEN LATER STALMENTS OF THE GAME, YOU N CHOOSE YOUR OWN GENR.IN POKéMON X, FOR EXAMPLE, POKéMON PROFSOR AUGTE SYMORE ASKS AT THE START OF THE GAME: ‘ARE YOU A BOY? OR ARE YOU A GIRL?’ THEY ALSO OFFER OPTNS OF SK TONE.AND THE LATT RELEASE, POKéMON LETS GO, THEY SIMPLY ASK: ‘WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE?’CHARLIE, 23, IS A TRANS MAN AND SAYS THE REASON HE LOV POKéMON IS BEE ‘GENR IS PRACTILLY MEANGLS ’.HE TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘YOU HAVE A LOT OF VIO GAM WHERE WOMEN ARE SEXUALIZED, OR YOU N ONLY PLAY AS A MALE. IN POKéMON, YOU N PLAY AS MALE OR FEMALE AND YOUR POWERS AND HOW OTHERS TERACT WH YOU DON’T CHANGE DUE TO YOUR PRENTATN THE GAME.‘GYM LEARS N BE WOMEN OR MEN AND THEY DON’T MAKE A FEMALE GYM LEAR A JOKE,’ HE SAID.HIS FAVORE POKéMON IS EEVEE.‘THERE’S SO MUCH POTENTIAL OF WHAT N BE,’ CHARLIE SAID.EEVEE N EVOLVE TO EIGHT DIFFERENT POKéMON — JOLTEON, FLAREON, VAPOREAN, UMBREON, ESPEON, LEAFEON, GLACEON AND SYLVEON.‘IT KDA GIV ME HOPE,’ CHARLIE SAID.IN THE FIRST EVER POKéMON MOVIE — MEWTWO STRIK BACK — THERE IS A WILY-ED QUOTE TRANS CIRCL OM MEWTWO.IN AN EPIC BATTLE, MEWTWO S PSYCHIC ABILI TO EEZE ASH AND THEN PIKACHU TRI TO REVIVE HIM WH HIS ELECTRIC SHOCKS.WHEN PIKACHU FAILS, HE STARTS TO CRY. PIKACHU’S TEARS THEN BRG ASH BACK TO LIFE.MEWTWO SAYS: ‘I SEE NOW THAT THE CIRCUMSTANC OF ONE’S BIRTH ARE IRRELEVANT. IT IS WHAT YOU DO WH THE GIFT OF LIFE THAT TERM WHO YOU ARE.’NON-BARY AND GENR FLUID ERSTHERE ARE A BUNCH OF GENRLS POKéMON.ACRDG TO BULBAPEDIA, THERE ARE 106 POKéMON THAT DON’T HAVE A GENR. JT THE FIRST GENERATN ALONE, THE GENRLS POKéMON CLU: MAGNEME, MAGON, STARYU, STARMIE, VOLTORB, ELECTRO, PORYGON, MEW, MEWTWO, ZAPDOS, ARTICUNO AND MOLTR.BUT ONE HUGELY POPULAR GENRLS POKéMON OM GENERATN ONE IS DTO.THE LTLE PK BLOB ONLY HAS ONE MOVE: TRANSFORM. IT N TRANSFORM TO ANY POKéMON AND MIMIC EVERYTHG S OPPONENT DO.FOR THIS REASON, ’S BEE SOMEWHAT OF A SYMBOL FOR SOME PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS NON-BARY OR GENR FLUID.DEE, 32, INTIFI AS FEMME NON-BARY AND SAID THEY NEVER FELT BOXED TO GENR BY THE POKéMON GAM.‘UNLIKE MOST GAM AT THE TIME, DID NOT CREATE AN ATHETIC FOR THE PROTAGONIST THAT I ULDN’T INTIFY WH,’ DEE SAID. ‘IT GAVE ME A BLANK PROTAGONIST I ULD “RATE” WHICHEVER WAY I WANTED.’WHEN POKéMON GO FIRST ME OUT 2016, THE GAME ASKED ERS TO CHOOSE THEIR ‘STYLE’ STEAD OF THEIR GENR.FANS PRAISED THE IATIVE AS WAS A CLEAR MOVE FOR NON-BARY AND GENR FLUID PLAYERS.LGBTI PEOPLE AND PISMAS WH ANY ROLEPLAYG GAME, THE POKéMON GAM N BE A WAY OF LGBTI PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE PISM OM THEIR EVERYDAY LIV, CHOOSG ALTERNATE REALI FOR THEMSELV.KIERAN LOWE, 30, OM LONDON HAS BEEN PLAYG POKéMON SCE FIRST ME OUT. HE LEANED ON POKéMON WHILE GROWG UP AS A WAY TO PE HIS CHILDHOOD.‘I WAS QUE LONELY AND AT THAT POT DIDN’T HAVE IENDSHIPS THAT FELT THENTIC,’ HE SAID. ‘YOU GET TO SET OUT ON YOUR OWN JOURNEY AT PUBERTY, TO LLECT YOUR OWN IENDS, WHO WILL LOVE YOU SO MUCH THEY’LL FIGHT FOR YOU.‘AND ALSO THEY’RE CUTE OR FABULO CREATUR,’ HE SAID.KARL SLATER, 35, OM LONDON ALSO ED POKéMON AS A WAY OF PISM. HE SAID HE WAS BULLIED AT SCHOOL AND WAS ALSO HAVG PROBLEMS AT HOME.HE SAID: ‘LATER LIFE, POKéMON BEME MORE NNECTED TO MY QUEERNS, OPENLY LLECTG THE TOYS AND NOT BEG ASHAMED OF . KNOWG THAT YOU N STILL BE A MAN AND ENJOY CHILD-LIKE THGS. BEG A GAY MAN, YOU DON’T HAVE TO PLAY BY THE L OF TRADNAL MASCULY.’KARL ADD: ‘MAYBE ON SOME LEVEL, EVOLVG A WEAK POKéMON TO A STRONGER MORE POWERFUL ONE TOLD ME I N ALWAYS GROW AND EVOLVE PAST ANY PROBLEMS OR INTY ISSU I HAD G TO TERMS WH MY SEXUALY.’DAVID, 32, OM LONDON AGRE.HE SAID: ‘IF YOU WERE AN AWKWARD, SHY, BULLIED 12-YEAR-OLD, THEN POKEMON WAS A PERFECT PE.‘IT PRENTED A WORLD OF POSSIBILI WHERE YOU ULD ADVENTURE AND BE NTROL,’ DAVID SAID.IT’S A SIAR STORY FOR JACK FLYNN (NOT HIS REAL NAME) WHO IS 24 AND LIV SOMERSET, ENGLAND.HE’S NOT OUT TO HIS IENDS AND FAY AS GAY AND SAID PLAYG POKéMON GIV HIM A SENSE OF POWER AND NTROL OVER HIS LIFE.‘I’VE ALWAYS FOUND POKéMON TO MAKE ME FEEL ODDLY SAFE,’ JACK SAID. ‘SORT OF LIKE A FEELG THAT THAT WORLD, NOTHG BAD N HAPPEN.‘I HAVE ANXIETY [SO] I TEND TO EAK OUT A LOT. POKéMON HAS HELPED ME RELAX.‘[I] GET QUE ANX WHEN TO GAY STUFF BEE I N’T BE MY TE SELF AT HOME, AND I N DO THAT POKéMON,’ HE SAID.USG POKéMON TO NNECT WH OTHERSONE OF THE BT THGS ABOUT THE LATT RELEAS OF THE POKéMON ANCHISE IS S ABILY TO NNECT LGBTI PLAYERS.WH THE RISE OF POKéMON GO AND S GAMEPLAY THAT ENURAG PEOPLE TO NNECT, TERACT AND MEET OTHER PLAYERS THE REAL WORLD, ’S ED A STIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA.PHILIP NORMAL, 36, SAYS THE ‘WHOLE NCEPT OF POKéMON IS ABOUT IENDSHIP’.HE NTUED: ‘I’VE EXPERIENCED NOT ONLY MAKG NEW IENDS THROUGH THE GAME, BUT BONDG WH PEOPLE FURTHER THAT I ALREADY KNOW.‘FROM THE BEGNG, POKEMON HAS CELEBRATED PEOPLE’S DIFFERENC AND DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, AND WHEN YOU’RE GROWG UP AND YOU KNOW YOU’RE A B DIFFERENT, ’S GOOD TO HAVE POSIVE MSAGG,’ HE SAID.KIERAN LOWE SAID HE’S ALWAYS HAD A PASSN FOR , BUT HAS ONLY RECENTLY UTILIZED THE GAME TO MAKE IENDS.‘I ONLY RECENTLY, VIA TWTER AND LONDON’S GAYMERS GROUP REALLY REALIZED HOW MANY OTHER ADULT GAY GUYS PLAYED POKEMON.‘AND I GUS THE POPULARY OF POKéMON GO 2016 MA ME LS SHY ABOUT AS A PASSN.‘I THOUGHT WAS PRETTY ODD AND GEEKY BEFORE THAT, AND BEE I HAD NO TERT OF TERACTG WH YOUR AVERAGE (STRAIGHT, YOUNGER) GAMER ONLE, I DIDN’T SEE AS A SOCIAL THG,’ HE SAID.ADAM KAPLAN, 26, IS A GAY MAN OM GLASGOW AND SAID POKéMON HELPS HIM NNECT TO HIS LLEAGU AT WORK A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY.POKéMON HELPS HIM ‘PERFORM HIS QUEERNS’.HE SAID: ‘I’VE TEND TO WORK PLAC WHERE I’VE BEEN THE ONLY QUEER PERSON OR PERSON MY AGE.‘I KNOW I N’T SPEAK DRAG RACE QUOT, CARLY RAE JEPSEN LYRICS OR E WEARG MH — AS MUCH AS I’VE BEEN TEMPTED — BEE WOULD JT BE TOO OUT THERE.‘BUT I N E WEARG MY EEVEELUTNS SWEATSHIRT OR HAVE MY POKéMON GO WATCH ON AND KD OF REPRENT MYSELF A WAY THAT’S STILL ACCSIBLE TO OTHERS.‘IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHG TRSILLY “ME” THAT I N OPENLY SHARE AND THAT PEOPLE N UNRSTAND AND BE POSIVE ABOUT, WHICH N BE A RARE FEELG WHEN YOU’RE A QUEER PERSON A STRAIGHT ENVIRONMENT,’ HE SAID.IT’S BEEN OVER 20 YEARS SCE THE POKéMON ANCHISE TOOK OVER THE WORLD AND ’S UNLIKELY TO GO ANYWHERE ANYTIME SOON.POKéMON THE MOVIE: THE POWER OF US IS CEMAS THE UK AND IRELAND ON 24 NOVEMBER AND 1 DECEMBER. 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