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I’ve noticed a growing sentiment in some of my favorite queer gaming forums regarding Grand Theft Auto VI, and it’s both making me snicker and causing me serious anxiety about the malleable nature of our mutual reality. When the second trailer for GTA VI dropped on May 6, one of its protagonists, Jason, became an instant sex symbol among the gays, and the thirsty memes started rolling in. This was light-hearted and fun, but at the same time, the alt-right gaming crowd was freaking out about Jason organism too gay — even though, canonically, he’s clearly a straight dude. Lgbtq+ players accused the neo-Nazis of projection, and the memes exalting Jason a
Grand Theft Auto series
Year: 1997
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Developer: DMA Designs Limited/Rockstar Games
Creators: David Jones and Mike Daily
Country: UK
Genres: Action-adventure, racing, third-person shooter
Platform: Various
The controversialGrand Theft Auto series games are set in fictional cities modeled on major US cities. In the games, the player completes missions for various crime syndicates but they may also complete various side missions or activities. In the original game‘s PC version, players can choose one of eight player-characters (four male, four female), though the PlayStation version only includes the four male characters. Most other games in the series center on a free (always male) protagonist, and have more detailed narratives (a list and description of each game is available here). In addition, the graphics in the series have become increasingly photo-realistic (images below are of GTA 1 and GTA V).
LGBTQ references in this game series:
Grand Theft Auto (1997): El Burro
Grand Theft Auto II (1999): Tetsuo
Grand Theft Auto: London 1961 (1999): Pretty Charlie
Grand Theft Auto III (2001): Gay Pedestrian; LGBTQ References
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Rockstar Has Been Slipping Us LGBT Representation For Years
There's been a lot of talk (well, mostly whining from folks with nothing better to whine about) about 'wokeness' of late. Gamers shrieking about Aloy's same-sex kiss in Burning Shores, or complaining that the Resident Evil 4 remake is 'woke' because it used an American-Asian voice actress for Ada Wong, and because Ashley has become too damn independent (so much so that she deserves her own game). Argh, the horror of it all!
Yep, apparently there's a 'woke agenda' out (even though LGBT voice in games is still markedly low, as we recently pointed out). But I don't grasp why people are complaining now, because we've been living in a woke-pocalypse for well over a decade now. And you know what Ground Zero is for this ongoing cataclysm? None other than the most anti-woke, problematic game developer of all time: Rockstar Games.
It took me a while to realize, too, but it all started out back in 2009, with the GTA 4 single-player DLC story expansion 'The Ballad of Same-sex attracted Tony'. To be fair, it's in the name, and it's in bright neon lettering, so more fool me for