Contents:
WH ‘BEFORE THE STORM,’ LIFE IS STRANGE FALLY LEANS TO THE GAY
He grew up a small town, and ’s later disvered that his muny ma him unrgo nversn therapy after fdg out he was gay. " - From di to blockbters -For years, gay, bisexual and transgenr characters featured maly vio gam ma by small pennt larger studs are now also eager to pict a wir diversy of characters, part to better reflect players' own life experienc as gamg has bee a mastream hobby for lns worldwi.
Last year gay rights activists hailed "The Last Of Us Part II" -- a huge mercial and cril succs -- as the first blockbter game to feature a lbian veloped "Te Colors", Deck Ne Gam worked on "Before The Storm", a 2017 "Life is Strange" prequel which siarly picts a range of LGBTQ characters. Twch, the world's biggt vio game streamg platform, has been stgglg lately wh the phenomenon of "hate raids", barrag of homophobic, racist and sexist while studs are creasgly tryg to emphasise diversy wh their gam, crics say the teams velopg them often rema overwhelmgly whe, straight and male.
Wh the premiere of the latt stallatn, Te Colors, the eedom of terpretatn and the so-lled gay button was pletely abandoned favour of a direct and unniable queer recently had the opportuny to talk about wh Mallory Ltleton (she/her), Senr Narrative Digner at Deck Ne Gam, who was workg on two Life is Strange tl: Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Life is Strange: Te Colors. There is no gay button Te Colors to disver queer ntent - is jt visible there. Prev stalments of Life is Strange were more queerdg and queerreadg oriented, whout magic words like LGBTQ+, queer, gay, lbian.