Commentary – Are Video Games Getting Gayer?
Written By: Richard on October 9, 2009
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An op-ed from Bryan Ochalla at Advocate.com.
Video games have grown up a lot in the last few years, “but we still haven’t seen the kind of normalization [of LGBT characters and story lines] that we’ve seen in movies and on TV for some time,” laments Brenda Brathwaite, a veteran game designer and the author of Sex in Video Games. “We still haven’t had our Brokeback Mountain moment.”
Read the whole piece here.
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I don’t know if they are getting gayer since I don’t play a ton of video games, but I know that Hank recently was playing Fable II and you had the option of making your character gay, which I thought was interesting.
Yes! Fable II is one of the most gay-inclusive games that’s been released. And the funny thing is, they didn’t somehow create a “gay storyline,” they just allow players to make broad, open-ended choices. So players create their own “gay content” in the game, while straight players can create whatever experience they want. I think it’s great.