game girl advance: Gays, Lesbians, and Their Guilds

Gays, Lesbians, and Their Guilds

The recent scuffle between Blizzard and a young woman who wanted to create a gay-and-lesbian-friendly guild made me almost as depressed as when San Francisco started revoking marriage licenses it had just issued to blissfully newly-wed couples.

The truth is, I would like to find a gay-lesbian friendly guild. If they would have me, although I am neither.

Let's face it, straight boys in anonymous games are annoying. If you play a female character - or if they even *think* for a moment that you're female, some gamers get all goggly-eyed. "A/S/L? Lol". Sure, it's nice to get free gold and stuff from the remnants of a chivalric instinct, but all that attention can get a little tiring. And then there are the heavy-duty role-player types who are constantly "Milady" this and "Milady" that and who are bowing and scraping and acting like proper goofballs instead of focusing on the damn raid.

I'd rather be flirted with by gay boys and lesbians, quite honestly.

Plus, gay boys and men are more likely to be supportive of you. A shoulder to cry on. Every straight girl should have a gay boyfriend, to dispense much-needed hair, fashion, and love advice without a trace of competitiveness. Lesbians are also very supportive, although I've definitely run into a few who are more aggressive than straight boys!

Raiding with your Gay-Lesbian Guild would be so much more fun. Hugs all around afterwards!

And the added bonus would be to not hear the names which so many gamers liberally sprinkle into their speech, because honestly, I'm just tired of it.

I do hope they'll accept me. I'm bi-curious, does that count?

Posted by jane at February 07, 2006 09:39 AM

I have heard of there being "christian" guilds and "Spanish-speaking" guilds. These seggregate the community and lable people, plus they will cause people to target them for discrimination. At least in Blizzard's explaination of their drama this could be considered true. Since they didn't threaten these guilds, why would they go after a "G/L/B/T-friendly" guild?

Hey, if they're playing the game, they're gonna be called 'faggots' or 'gay' anyway. They might as well stand up and be counted.

I have no idea whether this post was satire, it's pretty close to the line, but I figured I'd write my little essay here since the comments on Kotaku and other sites kinda made me pissed off...

Posted by: Tallest on February 7, 2006 10:54 PM

I wonder what Blizzard's thoughts are on gender-based guilds. Although I've never noticed a girl only guild in WoW I do remember that EVE online not only allowed an all girl guild it encouraged it. When the first girl only guild/corp was started in EVE CCP emailed all players and set up a new thread on their messageboard devoted to it.

Posted by: Erica Stevens on February 23, 2006 10:30 AM