Move, he's gay.
Contents:
- NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
- A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
- HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
- BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
- "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
- A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
- OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
- SOLDIER 76 IS GAY?
- IS SOLDIER 76 STILL GAY?
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. * soldier 76 gay story *
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.
A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
A new study found that after the character was revealed to be gay a ic, players chose Soldier: 76 ls equently -game. * soldier 76 gay story *
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
One of the game's most popular characters, Soldier: 76 has been revealed to be gay - and reactns are mixed. * soldier 76 gay story *
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.
BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
Blizzard reveals that Overwatch's Soldier: 76 is gay - but they n do better than an isolated short story that might also be a PR distractn. * soldier 76 gay story *
Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay.
“Both intify as gay. Both intify as gay.
"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * soldier 76 gay story *
It also tablish the Overwatch non that John Francis "Jack" Morrison, the all-Amerin boy who joed the ary at age 18 to fight the Omnic Crisis and ultimately beme Soldier: 76, is gay. Two years ago, Blizzard revealed that Tracer, the "face" of Overwatch, is gay. Ana wears the hope that will bee a guardian figure for the people of Egypt, who she feels rponsible wrer on Overwatch, Michael Chu has also sce nfirmed that Soldier 76 and Vcent are nonilly gay.
A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
* soldier 76 gay story *
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.
OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
Soldier 76 is the send "Overwatch" hero to be intified as queer or gay. * soldier 76 gay story *
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.
“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.
SOLDIER 76 IS 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. “Both intify as gay, ” Chu nfirmed.
Bastet nfirms that Soldier: 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character.
IS SOLDIER 76 STILL GAY?
) Related: Blizzard releas an Ana short story—and nfirms Soldier: 76 as the game’s send gay character Here’s an excerpt om the story. In the Reflectns ic, where Tracer was revealed as gay, Blizzard slipped the same photo of Vcent and Soldier: 76.