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DRAGON AGE INQUISN'S DORIAN CHARACTER IS "LEGIMATELY GAY," BWARE SAYS

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Dorian gets angry, revealg to the Inquisor that when his father learned that he was gay and didn't want to keep up appearanc by marryg his betrothed, he tried to e a blood magic rual, which Dorian was tght was "the last rort of the weak md", to change his sexualy and make him ply wh his fay's wish. Regardls of the oute, after returng to Skyhold Dorian reveals his father's attempt to "rrect" his homosexualy through blood magic.

A motached mage named Dorian, he is the first "legimately gay" character BWare lead seri wrer David Gair has ever wrten and he's already dmmg up some ntroversy. ""I suppose this aspect of Dorian will make him ntroversial some rners, but I was glad to clu " -- David GairIn this post on the Dragon Age Inquisn webse, Gair ially referred to Dorian as "fully gay, " which led some level of cricism over this label. He has sce apologized, explag that he meant to say "legimately" gay, that Dorian will only romance men.

"I was tryg to be clear--many people nsir the bi characters we've done to be 'gay, '" Gair said. Another fan suggted that "fully gay" and "legimately gay" have the same nnotatns, but Gair don't see that way.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN TO FEATURE BWARE'S FIRST 'FULLY GAY' MALE

Dragon Age: Inquisn's latt party member has been revealed as Dorian, a mage who is veloper BWare's first "fully gay" male party member. * dorian dragon age gay *

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Dragon Age: Inquisn's latt party member has been revealed as Dorian, a mage who is veloper BWare's first "fully gay" male party member ever. "Dorian is gay—he is, fact, the first fully gay character I've had the opportuny to wre, " Gair explaed.

"Though gay and bisexual characters have appeared BWare gam before, Dorian is set to take the stage as the first gay male party member. Though Mass Effect 3 feature both Samantha Traynor and Steve Cortez as gay characters, neher was playable, while Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic's Juhani was a lbian (though a dg bug ially ma her bisexual). Earlier this year Gair took the opportuny to talk about gay protagonists gam, explag that spe ristance om some parti wasn't much to clu, and was surely worth so those who feel alone and don't see anyone like them reprented gam n feel we recently dissected why we need more gay characters gam, one of the key pots we brought up was that while we see more lbians, gay mal rema absent om many vio gam for a multu of reasons.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISN TO CLU BWARE'S FIRST "FULLY GAY" MALE PARTY MEMBER

Apart om all of that, Dorian is also gay.

Dorian has been scribed as a “breakg gay game character”, wh which the matter of LGBTQ reprentatn gam. However, some read him as a gay stereotype and stated that storyle foc too much on his sexualy.

Pelson argu that “Dorian n be posned beyond the bate between stereotyp and a “te” gay inty, and ultimately recuperated as a queer figure. In the article a few exampl of readg Dorian as gay stereotype is prented.

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One of them is when his motache is pared to Freddie Mercury’s, this se the motache is read as a gay characteristic. Among other opns that ments stated, few gamers saw Dorian’s distc narrative as another stereotype of a gay narrativ. He se the Tevter mage as an example of “posive gay reprentatn” and he should be approached as such.

Pelurson se this terspeci uple as “unknown realm”, bee Iron Bull n’t be approached as a “gay human”.

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