Plague_Injected
Supreme [H]ardness
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Honestly, I think all this "hate" is brought on gay people by themselves by doing stunts like this and trying to throw their sexual preference in other people's faces.
Why can't they just keep it in the bedroom at home like everyone else does? Nobody cares if you're doing another guy up the butt, so there's no need to go out there and announce that's what you like to do at night.
This "gaymer" convention doesn't do anything positive for the gaming community, all it does is divide it, and that's exactly what the problem with "special interest groups" trying to spout their equality propaganda while they pull stunts like this and expect us to accept it or be labeled a hatemonger.
Gaming products are still primarily aimed at white, straight males. Even if white straight males are no longer an overwhelming majority with men AND women from all races and cultures are now into gaming, the industry still assumes the player is the straight white male. As such, anybody not of this archetype is essentially a minority in the eyes of gaming developers.
Of course there are games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins and even The Sims (congrats to EA for having three separate franchises representing the LGB community and being ahead of the pack...it just needs to add the T in there now), but they are exceptions to the rule and still allow for heterosexual gamers to be heterosexual. LGBTI gamers, on the other hand, are always portraying males who are trying to get the girl, and female gamers can either choose between beefy ubermale men or scantly-clothed, big-breasted bimbos who insult their gender with every frame. We haven't seen a AAA game where the main playable character is gay and the player cannot alter his/her sexual orientation. Imagine the rage if there was...
Conventions such as this give a sense of community to gamers who feel marginalised by an entertainment industry that as a whole does not market to them, let alone represent them. This occurs from the game level, marketing all the way through to "booth babes". Gaming developers and publishers already have the gaming community divided by refusing to represent or even acknowledge that not every gamer is white or straight. These conventions allow people who feel this way to come together and form a voice to highlight these issues and drive change.
Gaming is coming out of the basement with its becoming mainstream, and so it needs to grow up and accept that the audience is wide and diverse. Only then can conventions such as Gaymercon become unnecessary.