Legend of Zelda fans have long read Lk as gay or transgenr, even if his character is not nonilly queer. Fans have foced on shippg Lk and Sidon and drag readgs of the Gedo qut Breath of the Wild.
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LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
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AO3 may not be the only metric for how many Zelda fans terpret Lk as gay and/or transgenr, but ’s one of the biggt. In art, ’s mon to see queer-d monsters and pecially queer-d villas, particularly bee of how the Hays Co prohibed pictns of homosexualy on screen. This qut fails trans Zelda fans major ways, but much like Aonuma’s nial that Lk is gay, also prents players wh an opportuny.
Even if Lk is never nonilly intified as gay or trans, fan ntent for The Legend of Zelda is everywhere, and queer fans pecially seem to produce ntent drov.
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For many, Lk is gay or trans or both, and that’s a powerful thg that n’t be taken away. Correctn (May 22): A prev versn of this story rrectly ntextualized a quote om a 2015 terview wh Kotaku, which Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Tgle is “not gay. NkayGAYo) when the youngt of the pair turns 18, soulmat swch bodi for a day.