Overwatch Short Story & Wrer Confirm Soldier: 76 Is 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. 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. 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?

A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

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.

Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay.

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

Both intify as gay. 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.

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

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.

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. “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.

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

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.

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.

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

“Both intify as gay, ” Chu nfirmed. Bastet nfirms that Soldier: 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character.

) 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.

OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

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.

Related: How Pennywise and The Babadook Beme Gay Ins. Fans had so many qutns that the wrer of the piece, Michael Chu, took to Twter to nfirm that, y, Jack Morrison is a gay man.

The problem to foc when we take a step back and realize that a huge portn of the fan base, the nsole players, never see the one piece of story ntent that picts Soldier: 76 as beg gay. We would all do well to remember that, bee as fantastic as is that Overwatch now has a playable, nonilly gay character, Blizzard is a lossal rporatn. They played safe wh the reveal that Jack Morrison is gay, relegatg to an piece of world-buildg lore that only a mory of players will see.

SOLDIER 76 IS GAY?

Rowlg famoly clared that Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore was gay years after the re books were fished whout ever puttg that to the actual text of her works. Blizzard's Very Convenient Gay Smokcreen. The January 7 announcement of a gay Soldier: 76 giv the game a major posive PR boost and shifts the story away om narrativ about harassment the muny and the subset of toxic profsnal players.

However, nothg about the story or what was clud the update self directly speaks to Soldier: 76 as a gay man that uldn't have been done sce Jeff Kaplan teased the update on January 4. If we put on some til nspiracy hats, isn't a huge stretch to nsir that a huge pany might leverage an upg short story release to clu a brief alln to a gay romance. And we've jt learned that he's gay.

IS SOLDIER 76 STILL GAY?

What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY.

IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD.

YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE. A short story tie- to one of the most popular gam the world revealed that one of the game's most regnizable characters is gay — generatg an enthiastic rponse om fans, many of whom had already spected as much. Some fans were nfint that the character was gay based on his relatnships wh the game's other hero, while others felt that he took on an asexual role as the patriarch of "Overwatch.