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STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC, THE GAY PLA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE STRAIGHT MALE GAZE

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Makeb, the gay pla, is the sort of problem that about when a seri of perfectly reasonable cisns tak a velopment team to a very weird place.

STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC AND S NEW ‘GAY PLA’

And the promise is Makeb, the gay pla, available only via download – and the only place the galaxy where relatnships n be formed wh NPCs of the same n see the well-meang thought procs volved tryg to fix this narrow issue.

‘STAR WARS’ GAME SEGREGAT GAY CHARACTERS ON GAY PLA

We need to put gay character optns the game. And th: a gay home world, a segregated muny available only to high-level payg players. It seems strange to be givg a pany cred for makg a pay-to-gay pla, an ostracised world of same-genr romance, but to be fair to SW:TOR, a nicely equal genr spl of romanceable characters is not a bad place to start.

There are some gam wh perfunctory romance elements that assume jt don't matter if you're male or female, gay or straight - Skyrim, for stance, has one of the most egalarian (if shallowt) romance systems around. But 's vanishgly rare that a game will assume homosexualy the way that most assume heterosexualy. When ers began noticg that the terms “gay” and “lbian” were banned om beg ed at all the muny, muny manager Sean Dahlberg rpond that the reason was that the were “terms that do not exist” the Star Wars universe.

This led many to dub Makeb 'The Gay Pla, ' the only place the galaxy where queer love was allowed to exist.

THE STAR WARS GAY GHETTO PLA OF MAKEB

Abrams stated that “ seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world. But as the quote was wily reported at the time wh headl like “Gay Characters Comg to Star Wars, ” was one which many at the time terpreted as a sign that there was the possibily of a queer love story to e Abrams’ story. She was also very, very gay.