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Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
• Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
• A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
• A BETTER WAY FOR 'OVERWATCH' TO REVEAL SOLDIER 76 AS GAY
• SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
• BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story. New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship.

Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier.

He’s gay. In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else. Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season?

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story.

Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

Both intify as gay. While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character. Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game.

As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement. After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game.

“They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse. Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League. And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well.

VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS

It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men. “Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men, ” Nseler wrote.

Image via Blizzard Entertament Soldier: 76 is a gay man, as nfirmed by the 2019 short story Bastet. The reveal that Soldier: 76 was gay Bastet marked the ex-Overwatch manr as the game’s send nfirmed LGBTQ hero. He also remas the only gay man on the st as of now, although flirty teractns between Lifeweaver and other hero such as Baptiste uld lead to addnal revelatns on character sexuali g the near future.

A study of gamer behavr fds they shy away om gay characters, regardls of their strengthsA person drsed as the character Genji om the vio game Overwatch durg a recent tournament.

Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL

However, backlash uld ter the pani om supportg margalized groups and disurage gay players om participatg. He wrote that Soldier: 76 had been a romantic relatnship wh another man and intified as gay. Though Soldier: 76 had prevly been assumed by most to be straight, Tracer had been openly gay sce the game was published.

The majory had heard about Soldier: 76 beg gay but didn’t re. They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid . Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men.

A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT

But yterday was an tertg day for the seri, as dropped to a newly released lore story that foced on Ana was the reveal that Soldier: 76, Jack Morrison, is gay, or at the very least, terted men. So to have both Tracer and Soldier: 76 be gay, that’s rather signifint an dtry where almost no major gamg ins are nfirmed to be LGBTQ. Some are accg of Blizzard pullg a JK Rowlg wh an “actually, Dumbledore is gay” reveal after the fact, spe that never me up the books or movi.

Everyone seems to be eher A) happy B) claimg they knew he was gay all along C) different.

A short story tie- to one of the most popular gam the world revealed that one of the game's most regnizable characters is gay — generatg an enthiastic rponse om fans, many of whom had already spected as much.

A BETTER WAY FOR 'OVERWATCH' TO REVEAL SOLDIER 76 AS GAY

Some fans were nfint that the character was gay based on his relatnships wh the game's other hero, while others felt that he took on an asexual role as the patriarch of "Overwatch. " Michael Chu, the lead wrer of "Overwatch, " later nfirmed on Twter that Solir 76, a super-soldier once known as Jack Thompson, intifi as gay.

—Michael Chu ?? (@wtofhoe) January 7, 2019LGBTQ fans seem to have embraced the news and weled Soldier 76 as the game's send gay character. (@KayGRadley) January 7, 2019Another bisexual fan showed off his Soldier 76 jacket wh pri:—Rae (@skelerae) January 7, 2019Well-known ports champn Domique "SonicFox" McLean, who is gay, ma an affectnate (but slightly risqué) joke on his Twter, too.

SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)

"I mean, that's great that #Soldier76 is gay but let's be f**kg real.

To start wh, 's a big al: Blizzard recently revealed that Overwatch's Soldier 76 is gay or bi by htg at a prev relatnship that he had wh a man an onle short story, the sort of external sourc that nta of the multiplayer game's formal narrative. Blizzard jt dropped a bombshell on 's fan base, announcg the latt Bastet short story that Soldier: 76 may be gay.

BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

" The general nsens is this reveals Soldier 76 is gay or onle have been discsg this revelatn for the past few hours. People are jt disverg Soldier 76 is gay? I was a fool not to know you were not only an ally to the gays but also gay yourself —?

I know a random nobody ex-boyiend is not anyone's ial way to reveal this but soldier 76 beg gay giv me so much satisfactn bee he's one of the on that will make the straight men madst— otterly unbelievable (@darkmayproject) January 7, 2019. you've got one half of people sayg 's "forcg an agenda"and the other whg that "blizzard dont re about lgbt whatever"meanwhile i'm over here beg really happy that they didn't jt go "oh btw soldier 76 is gay" and showed stead of tellgi love that— Cay @FFXIV GARBAGE CAT ADVENTURES (@No17Caloss) January 7, 2019.