Dragon Age 2’s gay character ntroversial wh straight, gay gamers | Ars Techni

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• DRAGON AGE 2’S GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSIAL WH STRAIGHT, GAY GAMERS
• NEW VIO GAME: DUNGEONS, DRAGONS AND NOW GAY SEX
• HOW I REALIZED MY DRAGON AGE: INQUISN CHARACTER IS GAY
• DRAGON AGE: INQUISN GAY SEX SCENE
• CAN YOU BE GAY DRAGON AGE: ORIGS?
• HOW GAMG’S BREAKOUT GAY CHARACTER CAME TO BE
• THE SEXUALY "DRAGON AGE: ORIGS" CLUS A GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY LYLE MASAKIOCTOBER 30, 2009/8:51 AMBY LYLE MASAKIOCTOBER 30, 2009 / 8:51 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE SEXUALY \"DRAGON AGE: ORIGS\" CLUS A GAY OPTN","DATEPUBLISHED":"2009-10-30T12:51:29.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2009-10-30T12:51:29.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LYLE MASAKI","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS WEEK SAW THE ARRIVAL OF GRAND THEFT AUTO IV'S SEND EXPANSN THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY, BUT LOOKS LIKE NEXT WEEK WILL SEE ONE MORE GAY-CLIVE GAME HTG STORE SHELV WHEN DRAGON AGE: ORIGS GO ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I'VE BEEN HEARG THAT DRAGON AGE WOULD CLU THE POSSIBILY OF A GAY RELATNSHIP AND AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE IMMENT NTROVERSY NFIRMS THAT GAY MALE SEXUALY IS A PART OF THE GAME, CLUDG A (D, OM THE SOUNDS OF ) LOVE SCENE SIAR TO WHAT PLAYERS WILL SEE IF THEY PURSUE AN OPPOSE-SEX ROMANCE. THAT JT MAY BREAK NEW GROUND FOR VIO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOWEVER, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS AND DLY-NSFW IMAG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE POTENTIAL GAY RELATNSHIP HAPPENS WH ZEVRAN, AN ELF WHO WAS BORN A BROTHEL AND ROSE TO PROMENCE AS A THIEF/ASSASS. WHILE THE LOVE SCENE SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHG THAT ULD AIR ON BROADST TV, I N'T THK OF A ROLE-PLAYG GAME THAT HAS PICTED GAY MALE SEXUALY TO THIS GREE -- JA EMPIRE PANNED AWAY OM S GAY KISS, BULLY'S JIMMY HOPKS WASN'T TERTED MUCH MORE THAN KISSG AND WHILE FABLE LET GAY UPL MARRY, ANY SEX TO HAPPEN THAT MARRIAGE WAS BLACKED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNFORTUNATELY, ZEVRAN HS A NUMBER OF STEREOTYP AS WELL. FOR ONE THG, ZEVRAN ISN'T TERTED ANYTHG MORE THAN SUAL SEX WHILE HETEROSEXUAL ROMANTIC TERTS ARE DIRECT ABOUT WANTG A MONOGAMO, LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP. MEANWHILE, ISN'T A GAY ELF THE FANTASY EQUIVALENT OF A GAY HAIRDRSER?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DRAGON AGE OM BWARE, THE VELOPER THAT PUT OUT MASS EFFECT, WHICH ALLOWED FOR A POTENTIAL LBIAN RELATNSHIP (THAT ALSO CLUD A LOVE SCENE), 2007. WHILE THE LOVE SCEN MASS EFFECT WERE ALSO NSIRED TO BE TAME, THAT DIDN'T STOP OM FACG NTROVERSY OM NSERVATIV OUTRAGED AT OPTNS THAT WEREN'T A PART OF THE GAME. IT'LL BE TERTG TO SEE IF DRAGON AGE FAC A SIAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SEXUALY AND GAY-CLIVENS IS PROBABLY ONE OF VIO GAM' BIGGT TABOOS. WHILE A GAME LIKE FALLOUT 3 CLUD VERY GRAPHIC VLENCE, SLAVERY AND DG E, SEX WAS TONED DOWN TO CHARACTERS SLEEPG CLOTHED THE SAME BED AND GAY CHARACTERS LIKE FLAK AND SHRAPNEL WERE WRTEN VAGUELY. I'M IMPRSED WH BWARE FOR CLUDG A GAY LOVE SCENE DRAGON AGE AND RISK THE HOMOPHOBIC REACTN OF GAMERS, EVEN IF I HAVE SOME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT DO YOU THK? DO LOOK LIKE DRAGON AGE'S TREATMENT OF GAY SEXUALY WILL GO FURTHER THAN PREV GAY-CLIVE GAM? DO THAT MAKE UP FOR THE FACT THAT A MTED RELATNSHIP ISN'T AN OPTN? HAVE THERE BEEN ENOUGH SOLID GAY RELATNSHIPS EARLIER RPGS THAT ZEVRAN'S SIRE FOR ONLY SUAL SEX REFLECTS A DIVERSY HOW QUEER MEN ARE PICTED VIO GAM, AS OPPOSED TO AN TERT ONLY SUAL SEX?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

DRAGON AGE 2’S GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSIAL WH STRAIGHT, GAY GAMERS

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

NEW VIO GAME: DUNGEONS, DRAGONS AND NOW GAY SEX

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. A gay character Dragon Age 2 tri to iate a relatnship wh your …. The problem is that the character is gay, and that means that people who dislike gay characters gam are upset bee of his existence, and a group of gay gamers are upset over how the character is portrayed.

On the official Bware fom, a gamer posted a thread claimg that Bware was turng s back on "straight male gamers" by cludg certa gay and female characters that he felt were created to appeal to different groups of gamers. Let's take a look at his argument, where he claims that there should have been a way to remove homosexualy om the game.

HOW I REALIZED MY DRAGON AGE: INQUISN CHARACTER IS GAY

In Dragon Age 2, I felt like most of the panns were signed to appeal to other groups foremost, Anrs and Fenris for gays and Avele for women given the lack of strong women gam, and that for the straight male gamer, a sendary ncern.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN GAY SEX SCENE

The fact that a 'No Homosexualy' optn, which uld have been easily implemented, is omted jt prov my pot. Stop stereotypg gay characters!

"As a homosexual playg Dragon Age 2, I've wnsed the worst stereotype [of] homosexual characters this game. If you refe to make your mov on a gay character then you [receive] rivalry pots for not wantg to be gay for the character, " another gamer wrote on a petn to have Gair fired. His issue is that the character seems to further a stereotype of gay men as beg sex-crazed and unable to al wh rejectn om straight men.

"The stereotype of homosexualy needg to be somethg that is shoved back to a closet bee mak other people unfortable is one about beg tolerated on other peopl' terms, " an article on the webse GayGamer stated. It also mistak that all gay men want to have sex wh straight men, and nnot take no for an answer—an erroneo assumptn, and is that assumptn that should be bated, which Dragon Age 2 do not perpetuate.

CAN YOU BE GAY DRAGON AGE: ORIGS?

Both sis seem to be argug that there is only one sort of gay character, or one rrect way to portray gay characters gam. "Wrers don't have a rponsibily to make exclively noble gay characters, they have a rponsibily to portray human gay characters, " Ken Leve, the founr of Irratnal Gam and one of the mds behd Bshock wrote via Twter, fense of Dragon Age 2.

One person argu that there should be a way to disable any mentn of homosexualy the game, and not every straight male gamer agre wh that. Another person argu that the stereotype of a gay man who hs on everythg he se and n't handle rejectn is promoted the game, and not every gay gamer agre wh that. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNew Vio Game: Dungeons, Dragons and Now Gay SexDec.

HOW GAMG’S BREAKOUT GAY CHARACTER CAME TO BE

If you play as a male character, is even possible to have a liaison wh a male elf named last tail has gotten Dragon Age: Origs (which is rated M for Mature, meang that is tend for players 17 and olr) noticed by the news media, and has prompted a range of rpons about the pictn of gay sex mass entertament.

At the nservative Web se World Net Daily (), an article wh the headle “Players have dirty ‘gay’ sex h game, ” Chelsea Schillg wrote that Dragon Age: Origs “picts two men var sex posns a secret scene of homosexual sctn. ” The game has also been noted by polil and cultural bloggers, cludg Ta-Nehisi Coat of The Atlantic, and ced by the Web se, which wrote that the scene “sh equaly on gay love.

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THAT JT MAY BREAK NEW GROUND FOR VIO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOWEVER, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS AND DLY-NSFW IMAG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE POTENTIAL GAY RELATNSHIP HAPPENS WH ZEVRAN, AN ELF WHO WAS BORN A BROTHEL AND ROSE TO PROMENCE AS A THIEF/ASSASS. WHILE THE LOVE SCENE SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHG THAT ULD AIR ON BROADST TV, I N'T THK OF A ROLE-PLAYG GAME THAT HAS PICTED GAY MALE SEXUALY TO THIS GREE -- JA EMPIRE PANNED AWAY OM S GAY KISS, BULLY'S JIMMY HOPKS WASN'T TERTED MUCH MORE THAN KISSG AND WHILE FABLE LET GAY UPL MARRY, ANY SEX TO HAPPEN THAT MARRIAGE WAS BLACKED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNFORTUNATELY, ZEVRAN HS A NUMBER OF STEREOTYP AS WELL. FOR ONE THG, ZEVRAN ISN'T TERTED ANYTHG MORE THAN SUAL SEX WHILE HETEROSEXUAL ROMANTIC TERTS ARE DIRECT ABOUT WANTG A MONOGAMO, LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP. MEANWHILE, ISN'T A GAY ELF THE FANTASY EQUIVALENT OF A GAY HAIRDRSER?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DRAGON AGE OM BWARE, THE VELOPER THAT PUT OUT MASS EFFECT, WHICH ALLOWED FOR A POTENTIAL LBIAN RELATNSHIP (THAT ALSO CLUD A LOVE SCENE), 2007. WHILE THE LOVE SCEN MASS EFFECT WERE ALSO NSIRED TO BE TAME, THAT DIDN'T STOP OM FACG NTROVERSY OM NSERVATIV OUTRAGED AT OPTNS THAT WEREN'T A PART OF THE GAME. IT'LL BE TERTG TO SEE IF DRAGON AGE FAC A SIAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SEXUALY AND GAY-CLIVENS IS PROBABLY ONE OF VIO GAM' BIGGT TABOOS. WHILE A GAME LIKE FALLOUT 3 CLUD VERY GRAPHIC VLENCE, SLAVERY AND DG E, SEX WAS TONED DOWN TO CHARACTERS SLEEPG CLOTHED THE SAME BED AND GAY CHARACTERS LIKE FLAK AND SHRAPNEL WERE WRTEN VAGUELY. I'M IMPRSED WH BWARE FOR CLUDG A GAY LOVE SCENE DRAGON AGE AND RISK THE HOMOPHOBIC REACTN OF GAMERS, EVEN IF I HAVE SOME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT DO YOU THK? DO LOOK LIKE DRAGON AGE'S TREATMENT OF GAY SEXUALY WILL GO FURTHER THAN PREV GAY-CLIVE GAM? DO THAT MAKE UP FOR THE FACT THAT A MTED RELATNSHIP ISN'T AN OPTN? HAVE THERE BEEN ENOUGH SOLID GAY RELATNSHIPS EARLIER RPGS THAT ZEVRAN'S SIRE FOR ONLY SUAL SEX REFLECTS A DIVERSY HOW QUEER MEN ARE PICTED VIO GAM, AS OPPOSED TO AN TERT ONLY SUAL SEX?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

” BWare, the game stud Edmonton, Alberta, that created Dragon Age: Origs, said the cln of the gay sex scene, as well as other romantic terlus, was not meant to ce arguments or bolster any social , but to provi players wh an immersive gamg experience. ” BWare, which also produc popular adventure gam like Baldur’s Gate, Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, poted out that the gay love scene Dragon Age: Origs occurs only if the player choos .

)Though male-female and lbian uplgs are also possible the game (which received a highly posive sre of 91 om the review-aggregatn Web se) for s PC release, is the gay sex scene that seems to have provoked the most discsn and generated the most hostile reactns om mentators.

)Exprsns of gay attractn among actual humans n also have nsequenc other entertament media. Lambert, who is gay, for his sexual orientatn. Laidlaw said that BWare knew about the cricism of the gay scene s game, but add that the ments were not g om s ctomers.