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Contents:

• MASS EFFECT ROMANC, BY THE NUMBERS: HOW GAY MAL HAVE BEEN SHAFTED
• MASS EFFECT FANS WORRY THAT EXPAND GAY OPTNS WILL CREATE INNSISTENCI, ALTER CANON
• MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDN LETS GAYS BE THEMSELV WH NEW ROMANCE MOD
• MORE GAY ROMANC
• UNRWHELMG GAY ROMANCE OPTNS IN MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA DISAPPOT MANY FANS
• GAY ROMANCE OPTNS MASS EFFECT 4?

MASS EFFECT ROMANC, BY THE NUMBERS: HOW GAY MAL HAVE BEEN SHAFTED

Others are exced but are still on the fence nsirg the seri homophobic past. But ’d be wrong to ny that the Mass Effect seri hasn’t had some posive impact on gaymers.

MASS EFFECT FANS WORRY THAT EXPAND GAY OPTNS WILL CREATE INNSISTENCI, ALTER CANON

Steve is the first gay love tert for Male Shepard. Introduced Mass Effect 3, Steve Cortez is the very first gay love tert for a Male Shepard. Gil is gay, and as such n only be romanced by a male Ryr.

It’s sweet, and isn’t often that gay characters vio gam are allowed to even have a fay of their own. Gay men, I won’t lie to you, you really lucked out the man partment Mass Effect: Andromeda and that’s never been more clear when you meet Rey Vidal.

MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDN LETS GAYS BE THEMSELV WH NEW ROMANCE MOD

In January 2008, Mass Effect famoly beme a talkg pot on Fox News, The work famoly ed the fact that the game has tasteful sex scen as an opportuny to both slg mud at the medium, and to voice their homophobic “ncerns” about lbian sex scen the fact that Mass Effect endured such harsh scty monstrat the bravery BWare showed wh s first entry the seri. There were no gay male relatnships and a very limed spe for lbian romanc. Bware add two new gay characters to the Normandy crew: specialist Samatha Traynor and shuttle pilot Steve Cortez.

MORE GAY ROMANC

Bware has claimed that a gay relatnship wh Kain, one of the Normandy crew, wasn’t even planned – a stg gay men mt have felt when playg the game.

I remember, wh amement and sadns, a banner mon on the Bware foms at the time ed by those who wanted a b of gay Shepard their liv. Origal story (29 March 2017): An -pth look at the romance optns available the Mass Effect anchise has revealed that gay mal have, by far, the least number of possible pairgs. Data gathered by Nic Watt, gay male Founr and Creative Director at the Sydney-based Nnooo gam velopment and publishg stud, shows that those who play as a gay male the four available Mass Effect gam n only romance 5 non-playable characters.

Straight female Shepards or Ryrs n romance 12 love terts, followed by gay femal at 14 and fally straight mal wh 21 potential panns.

UNRWHELMG GAY ROMANCE OPTNS IN MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA DISAPPOT MANY FANS

Gay mal were not prented wh the opportuny for a same-sex romance until Mass Effect 3, when shipmate Kaidan Alenko (above) was ma available alongsi Alliance pilot Steve Cortez (below). Gay female relatnships have been possible sce the origal Mass Effect and bisexual squadmate, Liara T’Soni. Femal of any sexual orientatn had equal numbers of suors the first three Mass Effect tl – 1 each the origal, 3 each ME2 and 5 each ME3 – until gay relatnships managed to outnumber straight on 5 to 3 the recent Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Of those amounts, gay mal n accs 35% of the male populatn, gay femal n romance 61% of femal and straight femal n nnect wh 83% of mal.

More damng is the amount of squad members gay mal n sleep wh: two. Of all characters straight men n romance, 76% n be taken on missns, pared to 50% for gay femal and 92% for straight femal. This data is prented at the same time gay fans have taken to social media to voice their displeasure over romance optns available to the LGBTQ muny.

GAY ROMANCE OPTNS MASS EFFECT 4?

Stevivor has earlier reported on fans’ reactns to Mass: Effect Andromeda‘s romanc, wh many directly parg the heterosexual uplg of Cora and Ryr to the homosexual one of Ryr and Gil.

“Instead I felt like I had to make do wh the only gay on the ship. “If they are gog to play the realism rd then is realistic that gay men would be assigned to those rol? That gay/bi women would have more jobs and be more prent than straight men?

But I thk there was a ncern at pretty high levels that if Mass Effect, which only had one gay relatnship, Liara -- which on paper was technilly not a gay relatnship bee she was om a mono-genred speci -- I thk there was a ncern that if that had drawn fire, that Mass Effect 2 had to be a ltle b reful. The trilogy’s origal romance optns will rry over to the 2021 edn, homophobia tact.