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GAY MARRIAGE, CIVIL WAR, AND POWER ARMOR: HOW 'FALLOUT 2' SHAPED ONE WOMAN'S LIFEGAY MARRIAGE, CIVIL WAR, AND POWER ARMOR: HOW 'FALLOUT 2' SHAPED ONE WOMAN'S LIFE

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Chosen On n flirt and have sex wh Llie Anne Bishop regardls of genr, [5] and the Bishop crime fay of New Reno general is portrayed as supportive of gay members ( stark ntrast to most fictnal and real-life crimal anizatns). The enunter would have clud multiple slurs and credibly homophobic portrayal of gay and lbian people - cuttg prerved Fallout 2 as a posive, landmark tle for LGBT rights.

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Released 2008, Bethda Game Studs' Fallout 3 featured a handful of gay or bisexual characters. Flak is explicly intified as gay by Groe, a slaver om Paradise Falls, who scrib him as a "queen" a rogatory fashn. [20] His script not clarify unambiguoly that Groe is llg Flak gay.

In Pot Lookout, pre-War stutnal homophobia is picted a public service announcement lled "Protect Yourself! The announcement employs dogwhistle rhetoric to suggt that gay people rry disease. Released 2010, Obsidian Entertament's Fallout: New Vegas actively ncerns self wh the reali of gay existence, and is wily regnized as a noteworthy work of queer science fictn.

In addn to a diverse st of gay and bisexual characters, also explored social attus towards homosexualy among the seri' major factns, and allowed the player to mechanilly set the Courier's sexual orientatn through the perks Confirmed Bachelor (phemism for gay men) and Cherchez La Femme (French idm meang "search for the woman"), and their straight unterparts, Lady Killer and Black Widow.

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Veroni Santangelo[30] and Ar Gannon, [31][32] proment panns and characters, are gay.

Homosexual characters clu Corporal Betsy, a harned marksman om First Ren;[35][36] Jimmy, a tribman self-liberated om Legn slavery and prostute;[37][38] Alex Richards, a soft-spoken doctor supportg ontle troops at Camp Forlorn Hope;[39][40] Manny Vargas, an ex-Great Khan and ex-First Ren sniper livg Novac;[41] the receptnist at the Gomorrah;[42] and Major Knight, an NCR officer posted at the borr of the Mojave. Uniquely, Fallout: New Vegas also explor homosexualy the ntext of wasteland societi, and touch upon related issu.

The rurrectn of rporate and ary power stctur prents new avenu for Old World problems such as stutnal homophobia to reemerge.

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Driven largely reactn to the Legn's hyper-mascule posturg and misogyny, mors persist across the Mojave that gay male relatnships are not only mon wh the Legn, but ndoned. Veroni, a lbian om the Brotherhood of Steel, wryly remarks that she believ legnari have gay sex about as often as straight sex. "[43] A bisexual civilian woman at a ary outpost[57] and an NCR general[58] imply gay sex to be more mon the Legn, and General Oliver's remark is explicly homophobic: "If you thk after all that's happened, I'm gog to grab my ankl and take like the Legn...

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