Why Overwatch's Two Gay Characters Are So Important

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Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fanse, took time to s down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversy our favore team based shooter.

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27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY

We've piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be... gay. Or bi. Or what-have-you. * overwatch gay comic *

Soldier 76 – Gay. Much like Tracer, Soldier 76 was revealed to be gay a medium outsi of the official Overwatch game.

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Both intify as gay. In the latt data drop, we got nfirmatn of somethg that many fans long knew their hearts — Soldier: 76, real name John Francis “Jack” Morrison, is gay. We’ve known for a while that Tracer is gay, too, and a happy relatnship.

If characters like this are meangful and important to the LGBT muny, and reprentatn matters (which very much do), then surely another two years we’re gog to fd out that another character is gay. We had a look over the other characters on the Overwatch roster, tirelsly pored through their backstori, pared not, looked for hts, and piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be… gay. Lov his gay dghter.

Lov her gay father.

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Hamsters are, as turns out, one of the 227 mammals observed displayg homosexual tennci. Gay, but too by tryg to figure out how her new abili work after each overhl to see anyone. Also, she lov her gay mother.

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Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * overwatch gay comic *

Lov her gay dghter. When asked, Moira says that she knows that sexualy is a spectm, where few people tly fall all the way on one si or another, and that she unrstands that te reprentatn go beyond simply nsirg whether or not people are “gay” or “straight, ” but also says that she nsirs herself “95 percent gay. You might ask yourself, n robots even be gay?

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But how, you ask, n a robot be gay when their genr is assigned before they’re booted to life — simply by athetic choic and the whims of their signers?

And if so, then isn’t this whole thg much ls clear cut than “y, the robot is gay”? We only know one thg for sure, though: Zenyatta is gay.

In fact, all Omnics are gay.

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