Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- MEET THE GAYMERS: WHY QUEER REPRENTATN IS EXPLODG VIO GAM
- AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GAY PORN GAM: FREE GAY SEX GAM ONLE
- 5 PLAYSTATN 5 GAM EVERY GAYMER NEEDS
MEET THE GAYMERS: WHY QUEER REPRENTATN IS EXPLODG VIO GAM
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AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
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LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay times gaming *
The cisn was ma durg the origal Sims’ velopment the late 90s to remove same-sex romantic teractns between characters, but they were restated by a programmer named Patrick J Barrett III – himself a gay man – who was workg om an old sign document that ma no mentn of that cisn. After two female Sims went off-script at a weddg durg a live mo of the game 1999 and started passnately makg out ont of a roomful of journalists, velopers at Maxis were wag for the sus at publisher EA to mand a change – but never happened, and so The Sims beme one of the first gam to portray homosexualy and days, the velopers workg on The Sims 4 at Maxis are much more liberately queer- and trans-clive, terg to one of the most diverse player muni vio gam. “I’m an openly gay man workg the gam dtry, so for me I have a vted tert greater cln not jt the gam we play, but those who make gam, ” says John Faciane, associate producer at Maxis, the Sims’ veloper.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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Lookg around the room at the Gaymg awards, I’m surround by people whose queerns and love for vio gam are both important parts of who they are – and nowadays, they are no longer at odds.
5 PLAYSTATN 5 GAM EVERY GAYMER NEEDS
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