Rabow Six Siege gets s first gay operator, Flor - Polygon

Contents:

• RABOW SIX SIEGE GETS S FIRST GAY OPERATOR, FLOR
• WHY THE GAMG INDTRY PLANS TO KEEP GAY CHARACTERS ON THE SIL
• UBISOFT LEAD WRER ASKS: WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY VIO GAME PROTAGONISTS?

RABOW SIX SIEGE GETS S FIRST GAY OPERATOR, FLOR

He’s also the game’s first gay character. And if you actually pay attentn to Gridlock's words, you'll see that my boy is gay. "Solidary as a theme was obv for , " said Antoe Gay, UbiProud Global Co-Lead.

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WHY THE GAMG INDTRY PLANS TO KEEP GAY CHARACTERS ON THE SIL

We have seen an crease vlent hate crim across the provce and cy – om the terror attack London which took the liv of three generatns of a Mlim fay, to our own cy, where a gay man was recently btally asslted jt outsi of Hanlan’s Pot, a beach wh a long Queer history.

UBISOFT LEAD WRER ASKS: WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY VIO GAME PROTAGONISTS?

A rponse piece on Kotaku reads, "It n feel like a slap the face, particularly if you were playg Kassandra as gay, to have her embrace domticy, a heterosexual relatnship, and motherhood. "So when are we gog to see that gay protagonist a AAA game? "- Lucien Soulban, lead wrer at Ubisoft Montreal, reckons that 'll be a while before we get to ntrol any gay characters AAA gam.

Talkg wh Ubisoft's Richard Dansky, Soulban noted that we ntue to see "mid-30s stubbly-beard brown-haired whe guy wh a raspy voice" protagonists AAA gam for fear om publishers that gam wh gay characters won't sell. "When are gog to get a gay/lbian AAA hero(e) who isn’t a one-off joke? "Eher we’ll see a ba-and-swch like the origal Metroid wh Sam Aran where we’ll fd out damn near after the fact (PS: And Dumbledore was gay), or ’ll e out of left field wh Rockstar, Valve, Nghty Dog or Telltale, perhaps.