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You Brought it On Yourself: Being Queer in WoW

Submitted by dr. b. on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 8:07pm. Game Theory | GLBT Issues | Research and Writing | This Is What a Feminist Looks Like
A story is richocheting around the blogosphere that World of Warcraft, the 5.5 million-strong virtual world that rivals some of its MMOG cousins in the East, has a pretty unfortunate policy concerning its Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual players: don't ask, don't tell. A guild advertising itself as "GLBT friendly" was asked to remove such a proclamation because it might provoke other players to break the company's sexual discrimination policy.

The interesting thing now will be to see how Blizzard responds. [edited to add: See Blizzard's response here and scroll up to see the WoW community discussion]

How queer: WoW and their unfortunate LGBT policy (Guardian Gamesblog)

See the extended conversation at Terra Nova and LawGeek

[Edited again to add: Lambda Legal stepped in to speak up for the guild and got this response.

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