Contents:
- ANIMAL CROSSG’S UNOFFICIAL GAY COUPLE GETS EVEN GAYER AFTER UPDATE
- ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
ANIMAL CROSSG’S UNOFFICIAL GAY COUPLE GETS EVEN GAYER AFTER UPDATE
Shout outs to that three-send moment of gay reprentatn Avengers: Endgame which a random man refers to havg a date wh another man. For now, rt assured: Animal Crossg: New Horizons do ed say “gay rights.
But my island, Honey, is openly and vividly queer: I regularly gift Marshal, my favore villager (who for sure has strong femme energy) lacy tank tops; I’ve cid that Isabelle is gay and that her televisn-watchg is limed to The L Word rens; I buy to the ia that Tom Nook and Redd are gog through a gay divorce; I mentally assign all of my soft, “sister” villagers lbian ttage-re vib by plantg ltle garns outsi of their hom and giftg them dried flowers to hang by their wdows. It’s much safer to ver my fictnal vio game island rabows and gayns than to do my real life.
Bee of this, ers n grab and brg to their personal spac, rather than ma livg spac, so that they don’t have to worry about people they live wh who may be homophobic watchg as they rate their tag wh rabows. In a piece for i-D, “gay for play: how vio gam beme a space to virtually explore queerns, ” Jake Hall explas this phenomenon, wrg: “Animals and fantasy characters have long been embraced by queer gamers, most notably Pokémon.
ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
It’s not hard to see why: Dto is an amorpho blob that lerally shape-shifts s inty at will, Jynx is arguably the fierct animated drag queen of all time and Gyarados and Machoke are the mcle daddi that baby gays worldwi never knew they need. “Our villagers also have queer energy, ” Sam told Supermaker, “like Pietro, the sweet gay rabow clown, and Gayle and Merengue, who we spotted together on a date to the mm once. Mastream vio game culture has long been notorly homophobic, wh whe men imagg themselv the lers of what is and isn’t te fan culture, but, once out the world, vio gam n be “queered.