Not only is Animal Crossg: New Horizons a great game and a huge h but has multiple, subtle referenc to gay relatnships.
Contents:
- ANIMAL CROSSG: NEW HORIZONS HAS NTENDO’S FIRST GAY UPLE
- EXCGNEW ‘ANIMAL CROSSG’ GAME INTRODUC NTENDO’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- I DON’T KNOW PAVé FROM ANIMAL CROSSG, BUT HE SEEMS LIKE GAY CULTURE
- ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
- ANIMAL CROSSG: NEW HORIZONS SAID GAY RIGHTS AND THERE’S NOTHG YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
- ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
ANIMAL CROSSG: NEW HORIZONS HAS NTENDO’S FIRST GAY UPLE
* gay rights animal crossing *
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. Animal Crossg: New Horizons basilly said ‘gay rights! Fans of the game readily poted out that Animal Crossg: New Horizons sentially said “gay rights!
EXCGNEW ‘ANIMAL CROSSG’ GAME INTRODUC NTENDO’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
The new 'Animal Crossg' game — 'New Horizons,' which dropped on March 20, 2020 — has troduced Ntendo's first ever gay character. Fans are pretty exced. * gay rights animal crossing *
Animal crossg said gay rights?
Animal crossg said gay rights babey!!! believe or not, animal crossg is gay— msa's gf (@isapphic) March 21, 2020.
Once aga, Animal Crossg:New Horizons said gay rights.
I DON’T KNOW PAVé FROM ANIMAL CROSSG, BUT HE SEEMS LIKE GAY CULTURE
Pavé is g to Animal Crossg: New Horizons for the Ftivale update, and kg seems like a te gay in. * gay rights animal crossing *
My #AnimalCrossg person said gay rights — Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) March 22, 2020. J are gay#AnimalCrossg.
Now, ’s unclear whether or not they’re romantic partners or bs partners, but many fans have speculated that this is Ntendo’s first gay character, and they’re pretty exced about . However, I n’t lie that Pavé as a character has ught my eye as the gay in Animal Crossg needs.
” Pavé jt ooz gay culture and I love that for him, for me, and for all of , really. 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.
ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
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. 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.
ANIMAL CROSSG: NEW HORIZONS SAID GAY RIGHTS AND THERE’S NOTHG YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Do I thk, outright, that ACNH is a gay vio game that prriz queer ers and LGBTQIA+ reprentatn? A Gaymg magaze piece tled “How Vio Gam Provi Safe Spac for Queer Exploratn, ” Cal Galiz-Rowe explas that “vio gam are not magil piec of media that trounce all others terms of their mer or universaly.
ANIMAL CROSSG: NTENDO DENI GAY ROMANCE RUMORS - AND SPARKS MORE
Animal Crossg n’t end homophobia gamg or prevent trans players om beg misgenred their everyday liv, or lbian ers om beg hypersexualized. But n offer a short break om the real world and s baked- homophobia. " However, "roommat" has been a phemism for habg gay upl for years, so Ntendo's explanatn may have jt add fuel to the fire.
Although fan works are equently dismissed as fetishistic gay pornography that isn't worth s salt, the fact is that fan works -- pecially fanfictn and onle roleplay gam -- allow people to explore their own inti and sir, while also learng how to see themselv the media they nsume. In fact, some of the most famo creative and bs partnerships history were also romantilly volved -- though they were often forced to hi their relatnships bee of anti-gay laws. And Flick as a gay uple, which mak impossible to say they are the first non LGBTQ uple the anchise, fans' refal to stop shippg the roommat is exactly why fandom exists and what mak so great.