Contents:
- DREAM DADDY: HOW THE GAY DAD DATG SIM BEME A H GAME OF THE SUMMER
- BALDUR’S GATE 3 HAS A GAY BEAR SEX SCENE AND PEOPLE ARE LOVG
DREAM DADDY: HOW THE GAY DAD DATG SIM BEME A H GAME OF THE SUMMER
The Sims has always been the obv standard bearer here, but recent cril hs such as Gone Home, Life is Strange and the experimental tl of Na Freeman, Christe Love and Robert Yang are phg gam toward human ’s genuely funny, ’s scere, don’t poke fun at s players or s characters, never punch down and featur posive pictns of gay and trans characters that don’t feel shoehorned or spotlighted unfortable ways. The game, which sts you as a fun-lovg dad lookg for love among the hot dads your new town, has drawn praise as well as nsirable cricism for s unprecented take on queer masculy, s arguably fantastil pictns of gay romance, and s marketg to a primarily female fan base. On the other, the game has drawn cricisms of beg fetishistic, signed ls for actual gay men than for women and straight people wantg to treat gay men as play dolls.
BALDUR’S GATE 3 HAS A GAY BEAR SEX SCENE AND PEOPLE ARE LOVG
Or is a highly romanticized, fetishistic treatment of real gay inty? The characters, as many slash fics, exist a distorted versn of realy where everyone is gay and homophobia don’t seem to exist. But while this approach has ma the game extremely popular fandom and more mastream spac, ’s nfed and alienated a number of potential players — cludg some gay men.
On the one hand, the game’s tenncy to ialize male/male relatnships and gay muni mak a fun fantasy for all to enjoy — and the game clearly has found an dience among gay men as well as other fans. It’s ma specifilly for straight women to fetishize gay men.
It’s a game that gay men are ignorg. No, ’s a game that gay men are gettg up arms about at the expense of appreciatg a meangful queer narrative.