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EA to Host GLAAD Panel on Homophobia in Gaming
by Nick Breckon, Jul 14, 2009 7:04pm PDTElectronic Arts will play host to a panel on homophobia in videogame culture organized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation this Saturday.
Representatives from Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Linden Labs, GayGamer.net and the Entertainment Software Association will be present. Topics will include "how to provide safe spaces for LGBT people online, how to ensure the best policies are in place to prevent virtual attacks against LGBT people and how to educate the users of online communities about the effects of homophobia."
As Gamasutra points out, GLAAD has become increasingly active in the gaming sphere. GLAAD director of digital media recently published an editorial on "The Impact of Homophobia in Virtual Communities."
The event is open to the public, and is being held at EA's headquarters in Redwood City, California from 11am-1pm. More information is available on the GLAAD site.
Comments
Yes, Onling Gaming is not a place for talking about how super-fabulously gay you are. It isn't a place for advertising anything about yourself. But it still happens. If you -talk- with other people, and it happens to come up, it comes up. And most of the time it isn't "HAI GUYS I AM LIKE GAY HOW ARE YUUUU DOINGGGG?" it"s "Hey, what's going on?" and the return being "HAHA YOU SOUND LIKE A FAGGOT ARE YOU A FAGGOT?"
So, straight people, get the hell over it. Stop being whiny little children. You are empowering their persecution complex by making a big deal out of them being gay. If you don't want them to make a scene about it, then don't MAKE it a scene by grilling them over it.
And, faggots (I can say that, because I am bi...that half-counts, right?), get the hell over it. Stop being whiny little children. When you let meatheads and closeted bro-lovers get on your ass in all the wrong ways over your sexuality, you are just feeding them what they want. So stop it. Tell them exactly what they tell you "This game isn't about my sexuality, shut up." And stop crying. No one cares.
Now both of you go sit in the corner or I swear I'll call your father at work and he will give you such a spanking.
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