Eurogamer: Nearly 1 in 5 gamers are LGBT+, says new GLAAD study

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Nearly one in five gamers are members of the LGBT+ community, yet LGBT+ storylines and characters account for less than two percent of all games.

That's according to the first ever GLAAD Gaming Report, the global leader in advocacy for LGBT+ representation, alongside market research company Nielson.

A previous report from Nielson three years ago stated 10 percent of gamers were LGBT+. Now that's up to 17 percent - an increase of 70 percent.
via Eurogamer
 

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Yawn.

Just make good characters and good games and fuck off about their sexual orientation.

I just played as Jill Valentine and gave two shits about if her preferred choice was men or girls.
I think she’s gay, personally.
 

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Can confirm, I am Land-Ground Based Tank, with a more modern design, hence the Plus.
 

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I question if we really need a trite romance plot tacked onto any game (or film) to be honest.
 

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They took off the Q? This is true that it made no sense... even then putting the T with the LGB is kind of a stretch.

Who calls themselves B these days, the barrier of entry can be pretty low (some drunk girl kissing her female friend and calling herself B to get DEI points...).

I'm not sure what they want to do with this info? Should Mario save a trans princess with a beard? at least in 1\5 of his games? or do they need to switch the roles between Zelda and Link every second game to avoid making link too much of a white savior? They have those quotas everywhere now, so no need to keep writing these articles as if nobody was on the case.

So 10-15 years ago it seemed kind of cute when you saw these things pop-up here and there from time to time, but these days this is off putting and I feel like I'm playing some idiot's idea of being disruptive by submitting to every whims of the company's 6 figure salary DEI "expert". We all know how it works, we all know that if someone doesn't play along with the DEI they are let go (even CEOs in some cases!)...

Most games don't have explicit romance, neither do they need to. When I go on an "adventure" this is not to get in some girl's pants (well, maybe I'd use the story to impress some lady after the fact).



As they said in south park: MAKE HER A FEMALE AND MAKE HER GAY!
 
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Why do they still separate L & G which hilariously reinforces (real) gender dichotomy lmao
When I was teen I had a really close friend who came out to me in the hope I would come out myself 🤷, after that the friendly relationship was hard to maintain because it felt like I had rejected some girl's advance and I obviously hurt his feelings. I mean, my reaction was literally, "well good for you, but it changes nothing for us, we can play video games and go hiking any time you want", but that was not enough.

in a twisted way I kind of wish I was attracted to dudes, it would probably make life simpler (I think), but I just don't see guys as sexual beings (like I don't get why women are attracted to any men, except me of course). I see a sort of beauty in muscular men, like Arnold in his hay day, but I feel no need to touch or what not.
 

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is this another one of those statistics that include people who only play games on their phones?
Honestly I dont believe this stat at all, I dont mind if its true, quite the oposite, gay people are awesome, but it really doesnt seem to reflect the reality. maybe I'm just jaded from seeing everything being about pushing an agenda.
Also no one asked me a damn thing, how do they know that I suck dick on the side?
 

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is this another one of those statistics that include people who only play games on their phones?
Honestly I dont believe this stat at all, I dont mind if its true, quite the oposite, gay people are awesome, but it really doesnt seem to reflect the reality. maybe I'm just jaded from seeing everything being about pushing an agenda.
Also no one asked me a damn thing, how do they know that I suck dick on the side?
Eh back when I was still in collage, I know two dudes in Engineer field above me a year

I usually go play football or WE with them in a group and sometimes. Another guy joke about don't go alone with two of them. I don't understand.

One night, both of them were drunked as shit so I asked them their house and led them home. When I closed door, and leave their house, I started hearing a bunch of weird noises...

Anyway, they never really said anything about it and they seem very outgoing, so honestly eh I never knew them like that but honestly I don't care. Kinda funny when I think about it. People don't really speak out loud about them liking ass whooping do they.
 

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This is one of those articles thats possibly fabricating data out of thin air tbh. There's still a lot of based homophobic gamers last I checked so alls good I guess.
 
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