On Gay Characters In Videogames

Thanks to Armchair Arcade for its feature discussing the portrayal of gay characters in videogames past and present. The article starts by pointing out: "In Troika Games' computer role playing game The Temple of Elemental Evil (2003)... the player is asked to rescue, and given the option to marry, an openly gay character", and ends by arguing: "Gay avatars are an inevitable development in the evolution of the videogame that will take place with or without this article. If we already see such possibilities opening up in even mainstream titles like The Temple of Elemental Evil, I doubt it will be long before even the idea of a fantasy role-playing game featuring only one white male avatar will seem a strange, misguided aspect of our distant past."

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Re:Gamers are Awful

[trentfoley]

Mod this guy up.

More and more, the word "homophobe" gets tossed around as an insult almost as much as "homosexual" does. Calling something "gay" in gaming chat is like when your friend steals a french fry off of your plate, and you slap him upside the head and call him, "Bitch!"

I don't know if homophobia and homosexuality are both diseases or both hereditary or what the combination is, but they need to be healed.