IGN's gaydar is pgg off the chart for some of gamg's most famo characters.
Contents:
- FAKE OR GAY: YOSHI AND TUROK
- EVEN IF YOSHI IS GAY, WHERE ARE THE OTHER GAY VIO GAME HERO?
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- FROM THE ARCHIVBOTTOMS UP: DID MY FEMIST ANCTORS BURN THEIR BRAS FOR THIS?PERRY MASON’S LBIAN LAWYER--TRAG IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF SEASON 2THE WEEK OF GAYS UNEXPECTED PLAC, LIKE OUTER SPACE & BEHD-THE-SCENLATT COMMENTS
- IS LYRIS REIL’S MIKA GAY? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
FAKE OR GAY: YOSHI AND TUROK
* yoshi is gay *
Your favore vio game characters are the closet, and we're openg the 's face , there aren't a lot of openly gay characters vio gam.
Sure, there is a smatterg of stereotypil gays urty of Japan's refal to enter the 21st century, but overall 's hard to fd anythg for gay gamers to get exced over. I'm lookg to all the mored, joked about, and all but nfirmed "gay" characters vio gam, and I'm gog to ci, once and for all, whether they are, fact, queer. Consir me the referee for thgs related to gay gamg.
For the gay rears who don't get the sports reference, nsir me the judgg panel om Project Runway, but for vio gam. " Verdict:+Gay+(technilly+queer) It's a tricky suatn here bee there are a lot of unanswered qutns about Birdo. And datg a transgenr or transsexual dividual don't, by fn, make you gay.
EVEN IF YOSHI IS GAY, WHERE ARE THE OTHER GAY VIO GAME HERO?
Can an egg-layg dosr whout sex ans be gay? IGN's Jack DeVri mak the se that Mar's green dosr steed wh the prehensile tongue is "datg"- the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that am the seri-Birdo, the pk, bow-wearg dosr first seen Super Mar Bros. 2. * yoshi is gay *
The image has sparked bat om people wonrg whether the game's homoeroticism was censored, or whether Chad Smh is gay himself, or jt lik to make dumb jok. If you're gog to make your anchise's tular hero gay, you're gog to do right, and this is wrong (on so many levels). Verdict:+Fake+(unfortunately) As much as I'd like to say Turok is a mascule, badass, totally gay vio game hero, the evince pots to this beg the storyboard equivalent of a "no homo" joke.
However I'm certaly not gog to stop any of you om adoptg him as the new gay gamg mast, 'e that'd be hilar. In fact, I thk we ought to make Yoshi the gay gamg poster dosr. Turok may not be playg both sis, but he's certaly not the only overly mascule shooter character wh a lot of latent homoeroticism.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * yoshi is gay *
Can an egg-layg dosr whout sex ans be gay? ") I thk people are overreactg a b, but that the overreactn largely om the right place: gamers don't really want to al wh gross characterizatns of gay culture. (DeVri' ment about gay folk not gettg sports referenc particularly grat.
)Yet a larger qutn looms: Why aren't there more gay vio game hero?
I wracked my bra to thk of openly gay hero. Not jt gay characters-which while not unmon, seem to be predomately flamboyant, evil, or gigglg lbian stereotyp—but central protagonists.
FROM THE ARCHIVBOTTOMS UP: DID MY FEMIST ANCTORS BURN THEIR BRAS FOR THIS?PERRY MASON’S LBIAN LAWYER--TRAG IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF SEASON 2THE WEEK OF GAYS UNEXPECTED PLAC, LIKE OUTER SPACE & BEHD-THE-SCENLATT COMMENTS
I always played as Toad or Yoshi, which I didn’t know at the time was bee I was gay! Or turned me gay; ’s not clear which. Some Mar Kart characters are more queer than others, and over the many years and 10+ gam we’ve had plenty of opportuny to speculate about their IDs. * yoshi is gay *
The only characters that sprang to md are the hero of BWare's role—playg gam like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, who n be gay pendg on what choic the player mak. Better than nothg, certaly, but not the same as a character who is simply gay, no player teractn required. )The explanatn uld be as simple as why there are few unassailably gay hero Hollywood movi: more mercial enavors than artistic on, any viatn om the perceived norm that would keep people om spendg their money on a game gets sand away.
Where do the "Yoshida is gay" thg e om?
IS LYRIS REIL’S MIKA GAY? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
Mika's sexualy is uncerta as of this wrg. However, there are some major hts Lyris Reil that nfirm Mika's gay. So far, Mika's sexual orientatn has yet to be properly nfirmed the anime. * yoshi is gay *
I'm not agast him beg gay, fact I thk would be an tertg dynamic for Denji to have to al wh a man fdg him attractive (like when he eaked out about Bam) but I jt don't know where the joke om. There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay.
You may want to know if your iend is gay, but there may be a good reason why they're stayg closeted. For example, his fay may be vlently homophobic and by cidg that he's gay, you may out him by accint by treatg him different or implyg somethg whout meang to.
If you're tryg to figure out if your iend is gay bee you want to date him (as a woman), 's important to remember that jt bee he might be terted men don't mean he's not terted women. Even if he is gay, that should not rm your opn of him.
Kongregate Yoshi - gay?, post your thoughts on the discsn board or read fellow gamers' opns. * yoshi is gay *
Another important thg to remember is that 's not very important whether or not he's gay.