Cele Dn: Gay Pri Month Love Letter (Exclive) | Billboard – Billboard

Contents:

• DN ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FAL FANTASY 16 CHARACTER, GAY REPRENTATN, AND MORE
• FAL FANTASY XVI’S GAY ROMANCE DISAPPOTS
• IS CELE DN GAY?

DN ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FAL FANTASY 16 CHARACTER, GAY REPRENTATN, AND MORE

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He’s a prce, he’s a tragic hero, he’s a bean of righteons for his people, and he’s the first openly gay Fal Fantasy ma character. Q: What was like reprentg the first openly gay ma character a Fal Fantasy game? Is Dn DiMucci Gay?

FAL FANTASY XVI’S GAY ROMANCE DISAPPOTS

No, Dn is not gay. Dn intifi as a straight person himself, and th would be safe to nclu that he is anythg but gay.

Officially, was bee veloper Square Enix refed to alter scen the game for the terrory, which led to mors and speculatn that the 16th game the long-nng RPG seri would have explic gay sex scen, which spawned mem and earnt excement. He is Bahamut’s Domant, able to ll upon the dragon’s power and transform to him durg battle (Bahamut is a gay in now, sorry about ). But when to actually portrayg the timate exprsns of queer inty, such as a kiss between two men who love each other, Fal Fantasy XVI falls short of s own unapologetic ials, while lgerg on Dn and Terence’s straight gam nearly always relegate gay men to optnsSadly, this is par for the urse the vio game dtry.

IS CELE DN GAY?

Sure, gam like Mass Effect and Assass’s Creed may let you play as a gay man (though the latter seri has twice now unrmed that Odyssey and Valhalla), but male-seekg-male timacy is almost never at the foreont of AAA vio gam unls ’s sought out by gay players. But the fact that Square Enix feels gun-shy the most timate moments of the game’s gay relatnship is a symptom of a larger issue.

As wonrful as is to see this type of reprentatn exprsed as open non one of the bt RPG seri of all time, this specific example of gay reprentatn is a step towards a more clive gamg culture. However, the two characters are more often to be nsired d as gay, sce their relatnship is never officially stated to be purely romantic throughout the game or om any official material surroundg . This is what mak the cln of Dn as a nonilly gay character whout any dg or outdated humor such a standout among the Fal Fantasy seri.

Fal Fantasy 16 has multiple gay characters, and even a si pann wh a ep trans allegory tied to their very existence. The homosexualy ntaed wh is nigh unmistakable, and I have to appld Fal Fantasy 16 for makg one of the most powerful begs all of Valisthea a gay man. In that fateful moment, ’s possible some of you felt the seismic timatn of a mble as the mds of so many gay men and armchair semticians llectively explod.

There are entire amic discipl voted to the cultural nstctn of fandom, and plenty of queer theory journal entri about the ongog role of diva worship nstctg gay male inty. ) “Judy Garland as gay in” is a full Wikipedia page, wh distct subsectns to expla “Garland as mp, ” “Friend of Dorothy” and the potential lk between Garland’s rendn of “Over the Rabow” and the LGBTQ2 movement’s adoptn of the rabow flag.

People, by and large, know a gay in when they see one. That is, they n spot a gay male in. ” As a subversn of the hetero-mascule ial of stoic solu, the gay in is loud, theatril and a b much.

Then there are “dykons”: celebri, ually women, who may or may not be gay themselv but have, for one reason or another, been adopted to the loose pantheon of lbian inography.

Maybe they’ve played gay for pay on the silver screen, or they’ve been moured to be gay themselv — actrs Ga Gershon, Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton are among the anoted. Where Dn’s diva signposts are effortlsly suggtive of gay male fandom, the attribut that more subtly and cumulatively pot toward a lbian inography are timate and knowg.