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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9036253" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>When I started going through old <em>Cyberpunk 2020</em> material last year, I was a bit surprised to find some positive portrayals of LGBTQ characters and was especially surprised that this included transgender individuals. In 1989, R. Talsorian games published a sourcebook for Rockerboys titled <em>Rockerboys</em>. Okay, it isn't the most imaginative of titles, but the sourcebook was written from the in game perspective of a Rolling Stone type magazine in universe. One of the "articles" was about a Rockerboy named Maz Despair who was a stand up comedian on the run from Texas lawmen after being framed for a murder. Despair was a lesbian, and she mentioned the gay community helped her stay hidden while she was on the lam. </p><p></p><p>In <em>Folorn Hope</em>, a source/adventure book based around a bar of the same name first published in 1991, the owner is married to the bartender and she's a transgender woman. It might be a little hamfisted how it comes up in the text, but the owner of the Forlorn Hope is fine with it because his wife was "woman enough" for him. </p><p></p><p>And of course from the 1991 sourcebook <em>Night City, </em>there's a posergang called the Gilligans who hang out at Lake Park. A posergang are a type of gang whose members all have surgical and sometimes psychological alternations to appear as celebrities. There's one posergang who all resemble the Kennedys for example. Anyway, the Gilliagans are a "militant gay posergang, also based on an old vid show. Members include Skippers (leaders), Professors (techs), Maryanns & Gingers (transexuals) [sic], and Gilligans (initiates)." </p><p></p><p>And let's talk about Palladium games for a moment. I laugh about it now because it's so absurd, but homosexuality appeared on their insanity chart in the mid-1980s. Your character could actually end up gay because he went crazy and then literally be scared straight in another encounter. I believe Palladium removed this from their insanity tables by the late 80s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9036253, member: 4534"] When I started going through old [I]Cyberpunk 2020[/I] material last year, I was a bit surprised to find some positive portrayals of LGBTQ characters and was especially surprised that this included transgender individuals. In 1989, R. Talsorian games published a sourcebook for Rockerboys titled [I]Rockerboys[/I]. Okay, it isn't the most imaginative of titles, but the sourcebook was written from the in game perspective of a Rolling Stone type magazine in universe. One of the "articles" was about a Rockerboy named Maz Despair who was a stand up comedian on the run from Texas lawmen after being framed for a murder. Despair was a lesbian, and she mentioned the gay community helped her stay hidden while she was on the lam. In [I]Folorn Hope[/I], a source/adventure book based around a bar of the same name first published in 1991, the owner is married to the bartender and she's a transgender woman. It might be a little hamfisted how it comes up in the text, but the owner of the Forlorn Hope is fine with it because his wife was "woman enough" for him. And of course from the 1991 sourcebook [I]Night City, [/I]there's a posergang called the Gilligans who hang out at Lake Park. A posergang are a type of gang whose members all have surgical and sometimes psychological alternations to appear as celebrities. There's one posergang who all resemble the Kennedys for example. Anyway, the Gilliagans are a "militant gay posergang, also based on an old vid show. Members include Skippers (leaders), Professors (techs), Maryanns & Gingers (transexuals) [sic], and Gilligans (initiates)." And let's talk about Palladium games for a moment. I laugh about it now because it's so absurd, but homosexuality appeared on their insanity chart in the mid-1980s. Your character could actually end up gay because he went crazy and then literally be scared straight in another encounter. I believe Palladium removed this from their insanity tables by the late 80s. [/QUOTE]
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