Opinion: Awful Lot Of Heterosexuals Around Here →

We are an artistic industry. We want to be recognized as a serious and legitimate force. The fact that LGBT kids out there, being shit on at high schools – bullied and contemplating suicide – don’t have a role model in the games they play, is disgraceful. It’s shameful. We have a responsibility to make characters that people love, relate to, and enjoy spending time with.

The ensuing discussion provides plenty of insights to the societal and commercial considerations of this topic. In time, like other entertainment forms, games will start to move away from entrenched heteronormativity.