BBC NEWS | Technology | Gay rights w Warcraft world

Contents:

• WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO INTRODUCE TRANSGENR CHARACTER AND GAY PIRATE COUPLE IN UPG SHADOWLANDS EXPANSN
• ARE THERE ANY GAY SERVERS?
• MARRIED GAY UPLE NFIRMED FOR SHADOWLANDS
• GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD FORCED TO CHANGE NAME BEE OF ER PLATS [UPDATED]
• THREAD: GAY CHARACTERS WOW? + LORE QUTN REGARDG FORSAKEN
• MARRIED GAY UPLE NFIRMED FOR SHADOWLANDS

WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO INTRODUCE TRANSGENR CHARACTER AND GAY PIRATE COUPLE IN UPG SHADOWLANDS EXPANSN

World of Warcraft recently announced they will be troducg a transgenr character as well as a gay pirate uple their upg Shadowlands expansn. Not only will Blizzard be troducg a transgenr character, but WoWHead revealed they will also be troducg a gay pirate uple to the game as part of the Night Fae mpaign. In the open Q&A at BlizzCon 2011, one of the qutns was: "There really hasn't been a large reprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr characters the World of Warcraft lore.

Off the top of my head, I don't know if we're currently velopg gay or lbian characters but 's certaly a possibily. Flynn Fairwd and Matthias Shaw are gay now?

Gay - Character. I've been a homosexual my whole life, but only recently me out to my parents.

ARE THERE ANY GAY SERVERS?

And personally I'm tired of all the gay bashg that go on tra chat. Seems like every time I go to Unrcy or some other ma cy someone is always bashg someone for beg gay.

"Well, no, 's spread over all, pallys, blood [This msage was leted at the requt of a morator or admistrator]theyre is one du on server (whos name i wont mentn) spreads the gospel of we got a gay server lled Llane, e jo, we real tolerant yoHave you tried Sex-Change? The maker of the hugely popular onle game, World of Warcraft, has changed s policy on gay teams followg an outcry om many players. Blizzard was acced of beg heavy-hand by threateng to expel a player for advertisg a gay-iendly team or guild.

In late January, Sara Andrews ed the channels to say that the guild she helps n, lled Oz, was set up to be gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr "iendly".

MARRIED GAY UPLE NFIRMED FOR SHADOWLANDS

She said many players ed homophobic language the game that went unchallenged. Many poted out that Warcraft has a thrivg muny of gay players, or gaymers, and that ma no sense to censor talk about players' sexualy outsi Azeroth. Gay pri march are known to have taken place Warcraft and there are many other guilds the game that are known to be iendly toward the gay muny.

But Was It Gay - Guild Summary.

Married gay uple nfirmed for Shadowlands - General Discsn - World of Warcraft Foms. "GAY BOYS" name change durg week of heightened Blizzard scty. Enlarge / What's to bee of the WoW Classic guild "GAY BOYS"?

GAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD FORCED TO CHANGE NAME BEE OF ER PLATS [UPDATED]

Ars Techni received word on Thursday that the "GAY BOYS" guild wh the recent World of WarCraft Classic fork had s name changed late Wednday to the mache-generated gibberish "Guild ZFXPK.

A cursory sn of existg WoW guilds shows another one named "GAY BOYS, " which had a temporary name change 2016, followed by a Blizzard fom thread askg why had been changed. In an emailed statement, "GAY BOYS" member Ah Jilani wrote:. If you reviewed my chat logs, you would see multiple msag om dividuals through my recment procs of gettg to where we are today, wh dividuals msagg "Fuck the gays, reported, " amongst other extremely hateful and discrimatg ments...

THREAD: GAY CHARACTERS WOW? + LORE QUTN REGARDG FORSAKEN

"To say there is anythg appropriate about the words GAY or BOYS is, and of self, appropriate, childish, and discrimatory, " Jilani said.

ET: Blizzard still hasn't rpond to our qutns, but the guild's origal "GAY BOYS" name has sce been restated, acrdg to members of the guild. 5 ln-strong virtual world that rivals some of s MMOG s the East, has a pretty unfortunate policy ncerng s Lbian, Gay, Transgenr and Bisexual players: don't ask, don't tell. It also suggts that they are happy to ddle those ers who thk 's OK to throw out homophobic ephets, of which - their view - there mt be many.

State of Maryland, home of my high school alma mater, revoked a law banng gay marriage as nflicted wh the state's policy on equal rights.

MARRIED GAY UPLE NFIRMED FOR SHADOWLANDS

Consirg their (reported) lack of actn for homophobic ephets on official game foms, this latt actn adds to a very unfortunate public policy on homosexualy on the foms says, I was enjoyg a nice md rottg night of playg world of warcraft (who needs a man when you n have a nightelf, right? So I'm bobbg along tryg to grd away to a higher level, and then general chat, a few players were g words like faggot and gay. I emailed Blizzard and asked them to do somethg, Blizzard's rponse was "jt ignore em, they'll go away", riiiiiiiiight, like that's ever worked wh a gay basher.

Related Lks: Homosexualy and Gamg Gay Gamg. Gay characters WoW? A thought occurred to me today, "should I wre my next big one as homosexual?

There are plenty of Gay characters movi, books and fantasy, but not so much gam and ics and whatnot.