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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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A seri like Mae Mart’s Feel Good, about a formerly straight-prentg bi woman her first relatnship wh a non-bary queer person, did not exist 1999; neher did a game like Life is Strange: Te Colors, a small-town mystery about a bisexual psychic, which picked up three aclas at the Gaymg awards. 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.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

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. “It is an art form that speaks to a lot of different people and backgrounds, and the more we clu all those people, the better is … A big reason that I felt fortable to e out when I did, even though I have a wonrful, supportive, lovg fay, was seeg reprentatn of gay men wh gam – knowg that there were other people out there like me.

”Asi om reprentatn wh gam themselv, the way that muni gather around gam has also been a drivg factor changg the state of play: queer gamers – or gaymers, as many playfully intify – are more visible too. “Weirdly, when I started streamg, I never advertised that I was gay, nor mentned on stream … I quickly realised this was foolish.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

”As Ben pots out, though, gamg’s general reputatn for toxicy is not entirely unjtified, and outsi explicly LGBTQ+-iendly spac there is still a lot of homophobia around. “I don’t believe ’s an overstatement to say that the gamg sector has a huge problem wh homophobia, transphobia and other forms of bigotry, but is beg tackled at all stag by publishers and velopers who don’t want their gam tated by , which is hearteng to see. 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.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

There are many more both mastream and pennt gam wh queer them and characters, but this samplg has gotten the attentn of the gaymer muny. From a premier name erotic gamg, Robert Yang's most recent work, The Tearoom (2017), is a historilly and polilly charged public bathroom sex simulator about anxiety, police, and what clanste meetgs such as this mean to gay men.

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony. Grand Theft Auto has been a bastn of bad behavr throughout the anchise's existence, and Gay Tony is no exceptn.

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But sce GTA's whole shtick is the seedy si of life, a gay character should be no exceptn. Unfortunately, s creator, Matt Conn, who also found GaymerX, a queer gamg nventn, stepped down om both GaymerX and MidBoss, the pany that produced ROS, amid allegatns of sexual harassment and worker abe. In Borrlands 2, NPC character Ty Ty's gay sexualy is revealed when she adms to a csh on two other female characters the game known as Moxxxi and Maya.

It also clus two pansexual squad members, a lbian doctor, a gay engeer, and two bisexual si characters. Also om BWare, the 2015 Inquisn featured Dorian, who was lled a "breakout" gay character. In , you play a sgle dad who mov wh his dghter to a sleepy town lled Maple Bay, where everyone else is also a hot sgle gay dad -- be they Teacher Dad, Goth Dad, or Bad Dad.

Gay men? Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

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“Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.