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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8327799" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I'm not really surprised. It's easy for issues of sexuality and gender - whether gender identity or sexual preference - to fade to the background when your own demographic is the societal "default". It's not an issue because it has never been contentious as an issue, so it's just background, not important, never been questioned. It's along the same lines as why Straight Pride isn't really an appropriate, positive thing. There's no adversity overcome to be proud of by being straight.</p><p>And to be honest, while sexuality came up in previous games I've run (virtually all heterosexual since that's what virtually all of us were in the groups I was in), it only became important when one female player decided to play a homosexual male character in a Cyberpunk game I ran in college... and then came out as a lesbian the following term. I strongly suspect that her playing a gay character, even if of a different gender, was an element of her exploring the ideas swirling in her head about her own identity. So, yeah, I have a better understanding how an RPG can be helpful when open and welcoming to the exploration of gender identities and sexual preferences and I try to run a more open and welcoming game as a result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8327799, member: 3400"] I'm not really surprised. It's easy for issues of sexuality and gender - whether gender identity or sexual preference - to fade to the background when your own demographic is the societal "default". It's not an issue because it has never been contentious as an issue, so it's just background, not important, never been questioned. It's along the same lines as why Straight Pride isn't really an appropriate, positive thing. There's no adversity overcome to be proud of by being straight. And to be honest, while sexuality came up in previous games I've run (virtually all heterosexual since that's what virtually all of us were in the groups I was in), it only became important when one female player decided to play a homosexual male character in a Cyberpunk game I ran in college... and then came out as a lesbian the following term. I strongly suspect that her playing a gay character, even if of a different gender, was an element of her exploring the ideas swirling in her head about her own identity. So, yeah, I have a better understanding how an RPG can be helpful when open and welcoming to the exploration of gender identities and sexual preferences and I try to run a more open and welcoming game as a result. [/QUOTE]
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