Confirmed Bachelor is a gay perk - Fallout: New Vegas

Contents:

• CONFIRMED BACHELOR IS A GAY PERK
• DO NFIRMED BACHELOR MAKE YOU GAY? OR JT A REALLY RELIABLE IEND?
• OPENLY GAY/BI CHARACTERS NEW VEGAS?

CONFIRMED BACHELOR IS A GAY PERK

Reprentg a homosexual or bisexual Courier, the perk has two effects:. Outsi of bat, will unlock unique dialogue optns when alg wh homosexual men (see below) wh some exceptns. "Confirmed Bachelor" was a mon phemism the 1940s and 1950s for a gay man.

The perk explicly intifi the Courier as homosexual or bisexual, and like Confirmed Bachelor, has two effects:. Outsi of bat, one sometim has accs to unique dialogue optns when alg wh homosexual or bisexual female characters. The seri has received aclas for s approach to sexualy and s portrayal of gay relatnships.

DO NFIRMED BACHELOR MAKE YOU GAY? OR JT A REALLY RELIABLE IEND?

Chosen On n flirt and have sex wh Llie Anne Bishop regardls of genr, [5] and the Bishop crime fay of New Reno general is portrayed as supportive of gay members ( stark ntrast to most fictnal and real-life crimal anizatns). The enunter would have clud multiple slurs and credibly homophobic portrayal of gay and lbian people - cuttg prerved Fallout 2 as a posive, landmark tle for LGBT rights. Released 2008, Bethda Game Studs' Fallout 3 featured a handful of gay or bisexual characters.

Flak is explicly intified as gay, scribed g the slang term "queen" a rogatory fashn by Groe, a slaver om Paradise Falls.

In Pot Lookout, pre-War stutnal homophobia is picted a public service announcement lled "Protect Yourself! The announcement employs dogwhistle rhetoric to suggt that gay people rry disease.

OPENLY GAY/BI CHARACTERS NEW VEGAS?

Released 2010, Obsidian Entertament's Fallout: New Vegas actively ncerns self wh the reali of gay existence, and is wily regnized as a noteworthy work of queer science fictn. In addn to a diverse st of gay and bisexual characters, also explored social attus towards homosexualy among the seri' major factns, and allowed the player to mechanilly set the Courier's sexual orientatn through the perks Confirmed Bachelor (phemism for gay men) and Cherchez La Femme (French idm meang "search for the woman"), and their straight unterparts, Lady Killer and Black Widow. Veroni Santangelo[31] and Ar Gannon, [32][33] proment panns and characters, are gay.

Homosexual characters clu Corporal Betsy, a harned marksman om First Ren;[36][37] Jimmy, a tribman self-liberated om Legn slavery and prostute;[38][39] Alex Richards, a soft-spoken doctor supportg ontle troops at Camp Forlorn Hope;[40][41] Manny Vargas, an ex-Great Khan and ex-First Ren sniper livg Novac;[42] the receptnist at the Gomorrah;[43] and Major Knight, an NCR officer posted at the borr of the Mojave. Uniquely, Fallout: New Vegas also explor homosexualy the ntext of wasteland societi, and touch upon related issu.

The rurrectn of rporate and ary power stctur prents new avenu for Old World problems such as stutnal homophobia to reemerge.