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Message: <blockquote data-quote="olshanski" data-source="post: 5547802" data-attributes="member: 7441">I think the original premise is entirely flawed and someones orientation has little to nothing to do with what games they play... or even if it did have anything to do with choice of games, the idea of gay people somehow bucking convention by roleplaying just as their sexuality isn't standard "straight" is also pretty ridiculous.For example, I would guess that there are about a similar ratio of gay people playing RPGs, as there are gay people playing tabletop games, or gay people playing poker, or gay people playing Bridge.In fact, I know more gay bridge players than roleplayers, and if you want to follow the original thesis, it wouldn't fly at all, because bridge is ALL ABOUT FOLLOWING CONVENTIONS.  In fact, if you don't follow a standard conventon in bridge, you have to alert the other players and let them know how you are not following standard conventions.  In tournaments, players are required to fill out a special card explaining what conventions they follow.  Does that have anything at all to do with sexuality?  I guess about as much as killing orcs and stealing treasure does.</blockquote>