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Contents:

• LIST OF GAY UFC FIGHTERS (OUT & PROUD MEN & WOMEN)
• GAYTALY: ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER KICKS SEVEN SHAS OUT OF THE RABOW
• THE FIGHT TO GET GAY VIO GAM
• IS ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FUNNY OR JT OFFENSIVE?
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER GUI
• ARE THERE ANY OPENLY GAY FIGHTERS IN THE UFC (MALE & FEMALE)?
• GAY FIGHTER THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER - SEASON 11 !
• WATCH: LGBT CULTURE BE FIERCE ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER VIO GAME
• “ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER” BRGS MORTAL KOMBAT-STYLE ACTN AND GAY STEREOTYP TO YOUR MOBILE DEVICE
• 'ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER' VIO GAME TO BE RELEASED BY HANDSOME WOMAN PRODUCTNS
• NEW TRAILER FOR ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, THE "WORLD'S FIRST EVER GAY VIO GAME"
• GAYMG: ‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, LUCHA HOMO Y BISEXUAL
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER TO CHANGE NAME RPONSE TO LEGAL TANGLE
• FIGHT AND BE FABULO THE UPG ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FOR IOS AND ANDROID
• ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER

LIST OF GAY UFC FIGHTERS (OUT & PROUD MEN & WOMEN)

From male and female gay UFC fighters to enuragg closet members to reveal their inty to the world, the MMA muny embrac Pri month a spectacular welg as the MMA is to LGBTQIA+ members, at the apex MMA promotn, rervatns persist regardg the acceptabily of members to the doubt LGBTQIA+ members abound the women’s UFC; is a different realy the UFC domated by article explor the realy of the LGBTQIA+ muny the UFC and also prents the list of male and female openly gay UFC fighters. Before we lve to our list of UFC gay fighters, the recurrg qutn regardg why no gay fighter exists the male divisn of the promotn has to be fairly answered.

GAYTALY: ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER KICKS SEVEN SHAS OUT OF THE RABOW

In 2009 UFC print, Dana Whe was ptured a vio blog posted on the UFC webse which he took swiped at women and obsceny-lan vio was a rponse to a story by a longtime MMA reporter Loretta Hunt of, which he claimed rrectly reported on UFC polici and crentialg of managers and agents relatn to their vio stck the nerve of the members of the LGBTQIA+ muny, such as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), who requted that Whe apologize. Though Dana Whe apologized, this was the first major ht potg to a rocky relatnship between the UFC as well as Whe and the gay there were doubts about Whe and the promotn’s stance on gay fighters UFC, those doubts were effectively cleared Febary Whe revealed that should a UFC male fighter e out openly as gay, he would support such fighters and help wh any potential down the le, spe the reassurg words of Whe on supportg male UFC gay fighters, the UFC male divisns boast of no openly gay, however, is not a reflectn of anti-gay sentiments the fact, the UFC star Marc Diakie dubbed the Bonecsher, beme the first UFC star to appear a gay fact that no openly gay UFC star exist is not an issue unique to the MMA general, pecially male sports, do not have gay top-flight sports which generate lots of buzz and tert boast of few to zero athlet who openly intify as members of the gay muny This, th, is no issue peculiar to the UFC but to sports Complete List of Gay UFC Fighters 1.

Amanda Nun The Brazilian MMA star is no stranger to the UFC or the world of mixed martial Nun is one of the most ement members of the gay muny the UFC but also bee she is credibly talented what she of May 2022, Amanda Nun currently holds the UFC Women’s Featherweight to fightg the UFC, Amanda Nun fought the Strikeforce promotns, where she effectively tablished herself as one of the tought MMA fighters the reputatn she created was tegral her short stt wh Invicta Fightg Champnships before she moved on to the UFC. Raquel Penngton is one of the lbian UFC fighters who is vol about her revealed to fans ndidly how she me out as a lbian and also nveyed her thoughts on the stggl of beg a gay athlete.

THE FIGHT TO GET GAY VIO GAM

Tecia TorrPhoto: @teciatorrOne of the current gay fighters UFC who is openly lbian, Torr, is no stranger to the MMA star, who is one of the top-rated stars the UFC female strawweight divisn, began her MMA reer over a ago and has tablished herself as a ntenr for the UFC Strawweight ’s major troductn to the sport started October 2012 when she ma her promotnal but the Invicta Fightg stt at Invicta was short, as her potential ught the attentn of the UFC, who offered her a place the ele December Torr was one of the first 11 women signed to the UFC strawweight divisn and also was a st member The Ultimate Fighter realy show. Concln There you have —the list of the openly gay fighters there are no openly gay male UFC fighters, the promotn, through s print Dana Whe has ma known how supportive they will be should any male MMA fighter tak the brave step of g the current members of the LGBTQ muny the UFC, there has been mostly no difference their reers pared to their straight Out The Intertg Articl on BiglySports:Top 20 Hottt Female UFC Fighters Of All TimeHow Much Do UFC Rg Girls Make? Is “the world's first gay vio game” an affectnate homage to a vibrant muny or clumsy rercement of offensive stereotyp?

IS ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FUNNY OR JT OFFENSIVE?

Lookg to wa through this maelstrom is Ultimate Gay Fighter (UGF) a 2D beat ‘em up for mobile vic veloped by New York-based Handsome Woman Productns. They pete the Gay Fight Tournament, anised by the nefar League of Opprsive Self Righteo Zealots (or LOSRZ).

Patrick noticed the same trend ic books, wh even those aimed at the gay muny always featurg an unrealistilly mascule hero. “And I thought, wouldn’t be fun to take a ‘stereotypil’ flamboyant gay man and have him kick everyone’s ass?

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER GUI

Some take as homage to a varied and lourful muny, an affectnate satire of the numero myths and stereotyp that persist around homosexualy. “When you have gays a new kd of media, whout any kd of background or precent, I thk people’s ial reactn is: who did this?

ARE THERE ANY OPENLY GAY FIGHTERS IN THE UFC (MALE & FEMALE)?

The game’s roster is formed primarily of Amerin gay men, leadg to accatns that margalis the other letters that form LGBT. The stereotyp seem more malic their sgulary, as if they are patg all bisexuals and gay Asians wh the same bsh. ’ It’s a ntent claim, as other gam exist that al meangfully wh facets of homosexualy, om smaller personal projects such as Mattie Brice’s Maichi, which puts you through a day the life of a transgenr person, to massive anchis like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

GAY FIGHTER THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER - SEASON 11 !

“There’s a huge saturatn of gam marketed to var mographics, but none that I uld see that were marketed specifilly towards gays.

There’s also the risk that, if the game is not well-received, uld be damagg to future gam that promently feature homosexualy.

On the ntrary, he believ that, should UGF fail, uld help other gay vio gam by creatg a hunger for somethg better, and spire other velopers to top his effort.

WATCH: LGBT CULTURE BE FIERCE ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER VIO GAME

“The gay muny has huge enomic clout – you’re tellg me my game will prohib someone om targetg that fuckg wealth? Whether Ultimate Gay Fighter succeeds or not, Patrick hop will reach s tend dience, an dience he believ will take the spir he tend. Image: Ultimate Gay FighterLike a lot of guys growg up the 1980s, Michael Patrick started playg vio gam at a young age.

“ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER” BRGS MORTAL KOMBAT-STYLE ACTN AND GAY STEREOTYP TO YOUR MOBILE DEVICE

"And the fact that she would always give shout outs to gays ma me feel accepted before I uld accept myself. "Patrick isn't an "avid gamer" anymore, but he was remd of his love of fightg gam last June around the time of New York's gay pri para.

Seeg all the over-the-top stum and floats that make the para such a legendary event, he began to joke wh his iends about what would be like to have a fightg game—a genre long celebrated for s ridiculons and mp nature—featurg entirely gay characters. And fally, last month, he unveiled his visn to the general public: Ultimate Gay Fighter, scribed on s webse as "the world's first ever gay vio game…ever!!!! ”Dpe the game not even g out yet, Ultimate Gay Fighter urted a great al of ntroversy based on s trailer alone.

'ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER' VIO GAME TO BE RELEASED BY HANDSOME WOMAN PRODUCTNS

Jt last week, UGF announced that had partnered wh the pennt mobile game veloper Beard Man Studs to brg a “bigger and better Ultimate Gay Fighter very soon. Todd Harper, a postdoctoral rearcher at MIT's game lab and thor of the book The Culture of Digal Fightg Gam, told me that part of the challenge Ultimate Gay Fighter fac here is one that a lot of gam face on some level, pecially this genre. To give an example, I asked Harper how he thought a game like StarCraft uld show s players that one character or another was openly and eely gay.

How uld show that one of the anonymo space mar the game is gay, for stance, whout turng him to a ridiculo riture?

“But now that you mentn , part of me would really love to see the space mar StarCraft prancg around stiletto heels…”Toni Roc, CEO and print of the LGBT-foced vio game nventn GaymerX, don't thk that Patrick's loyalty to genre nventns is to blame here.

NEW TRAILER FOR ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, THE "WORLD'S FIRST EVER GAY VIO GAME"

"While Mass Effect players uld pursue lbian relatnships for the entire seri, wasn't until the third game they uld be a gay is right that there are now many posive exampl of LGBT voic vio gam. In recent years, high-profile velopers like BWare have released blockbter gam such as Mass Effect, which lets players star their own space opera as openly gay characters who n pursue same-sex relatnships (though that didn't happen until the third game the trilogy) the right way, Dragon Age, another of Bware's gam, ntas a Brokeback Mounta-que subplot about one of s male characters abandong the player to marry a woman and honor his noble leage when he's required to assume the throne.

GAYMG: ‘ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER’

And jt this month, Sony and veloper Nghty Dog released an expansn to 2013’s crilly acclaimed zombie epic The Last of Us which ntaed a surprisg revelatn that Ellie, a teenage girl who’s one of the two playable characters, had a brief and tragic romantic tryst wh another other words, there are enough game velopers who intify as gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer that the fluential gamg se Polygon announced the emergence of a "queer gamg scene” last pared to other pop culture anchors like mic and film, the vio game dtry is still remarkably homogeno. Which gets to an important qutn: if billn dollar pani are havg such a hard time welg LGBT voic, is the work of one experienced gay man the real problem here? "Maybe we shouldn’t be spendg so much time pickg on an die veloper who ma some poor choic when a mastream veloper is still makg the 40th stallment some seri that's horribly racist and vlent and misogynist, " Roc Age was one of the first AAA gam that allowed players to pursue same-sex relatnships, plete wh awkward, Enya-fueled sex scen like the one shown creative dilemma that Harper highlighted, however, shows jt how subtle and enmic this kd of stutnalized homophobia is.

A recent article on the gamg webse Kill Screen, for stance, asked why there still isn’t a sgle easily intifiable “gay protagonist” mastream gam.

”I doubt that Ultimate Gay Fighter will have anythg like the narrative strength or nuance of The Last of Us. In Ultimate Gay Fighter, a forthg brawler for iOS and Android, players take on the role of a variety of inic gay ritur, cludg a drag queen, a butch lbian, an Asian 'twk', a gym bunny, a goln-cha wearg Ain-Amerin rapper and a dnken bisexual woman.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER, LUCHA HOMO Y BISEXUAL

At a time when vio gam are tentatively begng to offer up portrayals of gay characters, refully troduced by velopers keen to play fair and to seem utly even-hand, is a sparklg rabow of a game, splashg about mpy inography wh abandon.

The game's crics say the humor is undone by stereotypil portrayals and a limed perspective, while Patrick, who is gay, says the game is supposed to be funny for anyone who enjoys the diversy of LGBT culture. The range of stereotyp for gay men is very wi but the range for other aspects of the queer muny is very narrow. Harper poted to Netflix's selectn of medcre films s gay and lbian sectn as evince that LGBT art is jt as liable to be problematic as any art.

He said that the fightg genre particular is known for s stereotyp, and that Ultimate Gay Fighter has done ltle to change the stat quo. "This is a gay game marketed towards gay people which is a b weird bee assum that is what gay people want, " said Mattie Brice, a game veloper and mentator. Brice said that pchg a game as "the first ever gay game" and g the fightg genre, notorly reliant on stereotyp, was askg for trouble.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER TO CHANGE NAME RPONSE TO LEGAL TANGLE

"It seems like is ma for people who are fortable enough wh the stereotypg and token gays mastream media and gay scen to embrace wh tongue--cheek humor, " said Toni Roc, CEO of GaymerX.

"Gay people are so eager to see themselv gam that when a gay character along and don't reprent them they do feel let down, bee there are so few exampl, " he said. On the game's portrayal of women and mori, he add that Ultimate Gay Fighter had been created by a team "prised of women and men of all walks of age, ethnicy, and sexualy. And Ultimate Gay Fighter (UGF), a drag queen named Carrie Cupke forc her fo to “GAYTALITY” (a play off of Mortal Kombat’s “Fataly”) wh a microphone, purple boa, and wig.

FIGHT AND BE FABULO THE UPG ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER FOR IOS AND ANDROID

Cupke is one of 10 playable characters UGF, the “world’s first gay themed vio game” om Handsome Woman Productns.

ULTIMATE GAY FIGHTER

The game ps LGBT characters like “Bisexual” Jaqlyn Daniels and Timmy Spears, “the Asian Twk, ” up agast the League of Opprsive Self Righteo Zealots who want to stroy and brawash the gay muny. “We are never the kick-ass fighters, the bad-ass who rcue you and save the day, ” Ultimate Gay Fighter creator Michael Patrick told The New Civil Rights Movement.

For stance, Amanda Nun, a female bantamweight fighter, ma history by beg the first openly gay fighter the UFC and the first female two-divisn champn. Furthermore, Nick Rg, a fighter-nttant, was “exposed” as havg worked gay porn and produced a few films durg the 11th season of the UFC TV show on Spike’s “The Ultimate Fighter, ” or TUF.

It’s equently claimed that athlet keep secret bee ’s difficult for fans to accept that an openly gay person uld play sports. However, the UFC will eventually be even more acceptg of openly gay fighters, and hopefully, soon, the athlet will only be judged on the performance they put on the le the ge, not on the basis of anythg else.