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Contents:
- VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
- FIRST GAY VIO GAME CHARACTER
- VIO GAME CHARACTERS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
* who was the first gay video game character *
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FIRST GAY VIO GAME CHARACTER
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VIO GAME CHARACTERS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
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Developer Tim Cae, who is openly gay and, as of 2012, married, was one of the wrers behd the Fallout sequel. He explaed that addg the gay marriage optn was part of the culture makg Fallout gam:.
Gay is the new black. While some gam were explicly makg homosexualy an optn, there were also many “are-they-or-aren’t-they” moments vio gam that uld have fluenced how we see effemate men and blurred genrs.