A brief history of egalarianism gam, om the origal Sims through to Skyrim - and why the pictn of gay characters matters.
Contents:
- A GAY HISTORY OF GAMG
- MEET THE GAYMERS: WHY QUEER REPRENTATN IS EXPLODG VIO GAM
- THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
- VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
A GAY HISTORY OF GAMG
* history of gay characters in video games *
Sce s ceptn the late 19th century, film as a medium has had a rather rocky journey to pictg relatable, realistic, and above all sympathetic gay characters.
From the Hays Co of the 1930s banng what they referred to as ‘sexual perversn’, to Love, Simon the 2010s providg cln and love for gay teen dienc, ’s fair to say that a drastic evolutn has taken place. Whether this was bee the character was homophobic or bee he was gay at all is unsure.
MEET THE GAYMERS: WHY QUEER REPRENTATN IS EXPLODG VIO GAM
In honor of Pri Month, here are some of the bt gay characters across a number of mastream vio gam, a list that will hopefully ntue to grow every year. * history of gay characters in video games *
This ia has also been rried forward more recent seri like BWare’s Dragon Age and Mass Effect, that enurage character ctomizatn and fairly ep relatnships between the player character and NPCs, wh many characters beg gay or bisexual.
Although this was fely a posive step for reprentatn, crics have argued that this isn’t enough, wh gam that have fixed narrativ still sentially never showg gay characters a proment or posive way.
THE BT GAY CHARACTERS IN MASTREAM VIO GAM
This has changed the 2010s wh gam like Life is Strange, a narrative-driven experience that featur a bisexual protagonist Max and a gay love tert Chloe, who is also shown to be attracted to another gay character the game, Rachel.
Whilst not showg a relatnship explicly the game, the Overwatch character Tracer has been nfirmed as gay by creators and ics, and lead wrer for the game Michael Chu has stated that ‘multiple hero‘ are LGBT. The fight for gay rights isn’t limed to real-world spac.
” There are also upg die gam like Ultimate Gay Fighter, billed as the world’s first gay vio game, and a new documentary, Gamg Color, voted to the movement.
VIO GAME PLAYERS AVOID GAY CHARACTERS
We are gettg to a place where we n say that there are relatable and realistic gay characters young gamers n be spired by.
Takg one gay at a time. But took another for gay characters to beg appearg vio gam.