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When a comic book delving into the backstories of characters came out in December, it also showed the character to be groundbreaking in another way when it revealed she had a girlfriend, Emily, at home. The magenta creature found in many a Super Mario Bros. She fought alongside trans accomplice Roxy in the Japanese release, though North American versions of that game replaced the villains with male characters to avoid depictions of violence against women. Power is beautiful, and I've got the power. At one point, main character Det. John Carey discovers Hickman in fact frequented a West Hollywood gay bar, the Short Stop, and was secretly a cross-dresser.

The following is a list of video games with gay , lesbian , bisexual , or transgender characters , including any others falling under the LGBT umbrella term. During the s, characters that can be argued as identifying as LGBT were rarely shown in a realistic or non-stereotypical context and were often the objects of ridicule or jokes. However, more efforts were found to make more diverse and less one-dimensional characters. In the episodic adventure game Tales from the Borderlands , Athena and Janey are in a relationship. Depending on the player's choices, a scene may be available where Janey kisses Athena on the cheek and refers to her as her girlfriend. Later in the game, there is an unmissable scene where Athena is interrupted by a call from Janey, once again referring to her as her girlfriend. In Fable , if the player marries a female and a male NPC, the personality status screen labels them as bisexual.

Dragon Age 2. Persona 2. A Gay History of Gaming. A brief history of egalitarianism in games, and why non-traditional depictions matter.

Lesbian , gay , bisexual , and transgender LGBT characters have been depicted in video games since the s. In the history of video games , LGBT characters have been almost nonexistent for a long time, reflecting the overall heteronormativity of the medium. While there has been a trend towards greater representation of LGBT people in video games, they are frequently identified as LGBT in secondary material, such as comics, rather than in the games themselves. As in other media, LGBT characters in games often suffer from the " bury your gays " trope, a long-lasting narrative convention that requires that LGBT characters die or meet another unhappy ending. According to Kotaku , these characters are "largely defined by a pain that their straight counterparts do not share".