‘Overwatch’ Soldier: 76: How Homophobia Tanked the Populary of the Gay Character | Them

Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
• Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
• SOLDIER 76 SEXUALY: ‘OVERWATCH’ CHARACTER CONFIRMED AS CANONILLY GAY
• "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• IS SOLDIER 76 STILL GAY?
• BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story.

New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship. Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier. He’s gay.

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else. Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season? While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story.

So, Soldier 76 is gay, and this kd of shocked a lot of people.

Some people are upset by this, sayg that gayns is beg "shoved down their throats" and I wholeheartedly disagree!! Tracer was first revealed to be gay TWO years ago, and now that Soldier 76 is part of the LGBT muny, they say that 's TOO MUCH?

Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL

That is a grand total of 2 gay characters the 27 character st. Soldier: 76, real name Jack Morrison, is a gay character om Overwatch.

Michael Chu later nfirmed on twter that Jack and Vcent had been a relatnship, and both of them intify as gay[1]. Shock then ran among all fans when was revealed that Jack was gay. While LGBT fans were exced for another gay character, many ed to pot out a lack of diversy the LGBT characters.

SOLDIER 76 SEXUALY: ‘OVERWATCH’ CHARACTER CONFIRMED AS CANONILLY GAY

Most gay characters wtern media are whe men, and wanted to see more POC queer reprentatn. Gamergate players had a very negative reactn to the reveal that Jack Morrison was gay. Some ma over exaggerated remarks that half the roster was gay, and the reveal ed the character.

"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT

Badass Gay. Nobody Over 50 Is Gay - Subverted. Both intify as gay.

GAY. While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character.

Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game. As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement. After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

“They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse. Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League. And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well.

IS SOLDIER 76 STILL GAY?

It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men.

“Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men, ” Nseler wrote.

But yterday was an tertg day for the seri, as dropped to a newly released lore story that foced on Ana was the reveal that Soldier: 76, Jack Morrison, is gay, or at the very least, terted men.

BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

So to have both Tracer and Soldier: 76 be gay, that’s rather signifint an dtry where almost no major gamg ins are nfirmed to be LGBTQ. Some are accg of Blizzard pullg a JK Rowlg wh an “actually, Dumbledore is gay” reveal after the fact, spe that never me up the books or movi. Everyone seems to be eher A) happy B) claimg they knew he was gay all along C) different.

Soldier 76 sexualy is a topic of hot gossip as of now as the creators cid to announce the character as nonilly gay.