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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JonnyP71" data-source="post: 7697470" data-attributes="member: 6788862">Interesting discussion.  It's good that the world is opening up and slowly coming round to a state where people (and their characters) are accepted no matter who they are.My own experience:My 1st regular gaming group had 1 player who was very flamboyant and effeminate, this was the 1980s, 'gay' was a dirty word, but we all knew, and we didn't care - we were a group of gaming geeks there to enjoy a game together, and he was a great player.  Though he never played a gay character - he channelled his personality into female PCs more often than not.Move forward 30 years, and I'm happy to say with certainty that my current groups would all see it as a non-issue.  Yes, we are all in heterosexual relationships (most of us are married), but our characters quite frequently are not.  Though this varies from campaign to campaign.  Most of the PCs are also heterosexual, but there have been exceptions.  I had a very enjoyable session playing a gay Call of Cthulhu character, and my main campaign character is desperately awkward around anything sexual (I think of him as asexual).I feel if anything, that gaming groups are MORE accepting of people who society perceive as being 'different' - be that due to sexuality, race, disability, whatever.  Maybe it's because the older gamers amongst us lived through the stigma of being nerds at a time when that was looked down upon?  Maybe it's because RPGs appeal to a generally intelligent, well educated subset of society, who don't tend to have the levels of bigotry more common among other parts of society?Anyway, back to the video - it was interesting hearing people's experiences.  Thanks for posting it.</blockquote>

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