Dead by Daylight veloper Behavur Interactive has nfirmed that David Kg is the game's first gay character. The survivor first appeared 2017's Chapter 5: A Lullaby for the Dark, quickly beg a fan-favore. Kg will also be a central character the game's 11th Tome, which is tled [...]
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- DEAD BY DAYLIGHT MA ONE OF S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS GAY, AND OPNS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE
- DEAD BY DAYLIGHT CONFIRMS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- DAVID KG IS OFFICIALLY DEAD BY DAYLIGHT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
DEAD BY DAYLIGHT MA ONE OF S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS GAY, AND OPNS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE
The velopers of Dead by Daylight announced on Wednday that David Kg, a character troduced to the game 2017, is gay. Reactns ranged om joyful to outraged, and a Redd thread discsg * gay character dbd *
Survivor David Kg revealed as gay. Many fans read the character as gay; now this new story ntent will make that a realy as his past stggl wh inty are revealed. Behavur has nsulted wh LGBT+ anisatn GaymerX to choose the right character and ensure the reprentatn is appropriate.
"Workg wh a game team so dited to brgg a queer narrative to life their game has been a gratifyg and spirg experience, " said Katie Kachuck, executive director of GaymerX. "David Kg is a loved character, a youthful character, he is loved by a lot of players, the LGBTQ muny already nsirs this character their fan love story as beg gay as well.
It's also not the team's tentn to shock players by havg such a typilly mascule-prentg character e out as gay.
DEAD BY DAYLIGHT CONFIRMS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
"As a gay male wh a background like David Kg, wh a fay that don't approve, 's part of [the story] but 's not what we wanted to foc on. The velopers of Dead by Daylight announced on Wednday that David Kg, a character troduced to the game 2017, is gay. "Homophobia will not be tolerated, if you see any, please report , " a mod wrote the thread.
"Upon nsultg extensively wh the GaymerX anizatn, who shared their expertise at tegratg LGBTQIA2+ them to tablished gam, we felt nfint our chosen directn. Some would have preferred that a new character had been troduced, wh one argument beg that isn't impossible to thk that David Kg was chosen at random as a token gay character, given his existg backstory.
Like I'm gay and I'm not sayg gay men n't be hypermascule fightg addicts but jt feels sooo out of place, " said one player. "A number of negative or nfed reactns also me om people who weren't aware that the announcement cid wh a new David Kg story—or weren't aware that Dead by Daylight ntaed backstori at all, like me about an hour ago—and therefore thought that the veloper nsulted wh GaymerX jt to wre a blog post which stat that a character is gay.
DAVID KG IS OFFICIALLY DEAD BY DAYLIGHT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
The veloper announced that the new David Kg story will tablish that he intifi as gay, not jt that he's rt of the negative reactn broadly om people and punds who reject not jt the ia of reprentatn, but the inti beg reprented themselv, and took the announcement as a cue for outraged the PRIDE2022 the -game store will now unlock our new updated charm, along wh the old one. "I'm a gay du, I've had four girliends, " the player said. "[David Kg's] Tome lore is probably gog to be a g out story, somethg I n relate to and somethg I'm sure a lot of other gay men would feel reprented by.
My pot is 's hard to ll this tokenism bee this happens real life to almost every gay person. We don't pop out of the womb and have everyone unrstand that we're gay. Gay people don't even jt e out once.
I have to let people fd out im gay on their own or tell them myself every time I swch jobs or meet new iends, and 's always unnervg when I'm anticipatg their reactn to nfirmg my orientatn. For that reason I really hate this 'well he wasn't gay before so I don't like him now' argument bee that happens to real life.