No homosexuality in Star Wars - BioWare Comments by Ellie Gibson

gay...

was it jar jar binks

I've always though Boba Fett was gay.

"these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars"

Thanks to BioWare & Lucas imperium for supporting more open and liberal world!

Jeez. Talking about dropping a few levels on the cool scale there. Anyone still wonder why games can't be seen as mature and adult entertainment if a pretty common subject is outright banned and never to be spoken about.

Fuck you and your hetero universe.

I really shouldn't let stupid shit like this make me as angry as it does, but I find this utterly infuriating.

But C3P0 always needed lubrication

Sounds like nice PR clusterf#ck in the making. I geuse they diden't learn from the Live PR dissaster from a few months ago.

Terms don't exist in Star Wars? Ha, could he have wrote a more stupid reply. What a knob. This is not something I expected to see from a big company.

Kiss another dude != Star Wars

Kissing your sister = Star Wars

gofee is right it was obviously c3p0 he liked golden oil showers

Before anyone says anything, Obi-Wan's love for Qui-Gon was purely platonic...

I always suspected George Lucas was a nazi.

Star Wars = Iran

Also, they were pretty cool about Obi Wan being a gay paedophile in the Family Guy special.

Ah poor gays...

Doesn't bother me as I'm not gay.

/runs

Bioware - lacking taste and style ever since BG2.

Just thought I'd add to the general opinion.

This is very stupid. Bioware +100 renegade/ evil points

i.e. you're idiots.

Spacemidget genocide...

Doesn't bother me since I'm not a spacemidget.

Feeble.

So weird alien sex and incest is okay, but you can't kiss another dude?

Did anyone check whether the term 'hetero' exists in Star Wars (/Bioware forums)? If not, then it's sort of a bit less wrong I guess. Maybe.

Bioware: making games set a thousand years in the future, with values from a thousand years in the past.

Bioware, time to grow up!

Well actually Star Wars is set a very long time ago...

From Wookieepedia, the Starwars Wiki: "Homosexuality and same-sex marriage were apparently accepted by the Mandalorians, as Goran Beviin and Medrit Vasur were an openly homosexual married couple living on Mandalore, who were fully integrated into Mandalorian society."
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mandalorian

So, yes, there is homosexuality in Star Wars.

Edit: Damn you links!

"Sounds like nice PR clusterf#ck in the making. I geuse they diden't learn from the Live PR dissaster from a few months ago."

You mean the PR disaster where they are trying to protect gay users from pricks and are openly in discussion with gay rights groups about how they can improve their service in this respect?

Sean Dahlberg wrote, "As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars. Thread closed."

We don't actually live in a Star Wars universe, idiot. Which is totally gayish anyway.

Wow, I'm normally not one to get riled up about stuff like this because the way I see it it's still a thorny issue that people have a hard time dealing with, whether we like it or not. But I've never seen it handled in such an offensive way - not even Microsoft's recent shenanigans match up to this.

Man, they are being so gay about it.
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Arrgh! No chance of seeing two gorgeous females of whatever species getting together?! Bugger and darn them to hell!

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, before homosexuality was invented...

You know, while Star Wars is a universe of gigantic proportions, with countless stories/characters/planets, it's the small personal space between people that is in parts still unexplored. There are still many question marks in this area and, apparently, some want to let them remain.
I guess the clear distinction between good and evil vanishes for Bioware when homosexuality comes into play?

Well, I'm not angry about it, I was kinda surprised when I heard that KotOR featured a lesbian character, it's not what I expected from this franchise. That the discussion was so outright blocked is kinda infuriating, though. Like it shouldn't exist. Like they don't want to hear about it. Like, without acknowledging homosexuality and without it happening, the world would be a better place.

Now, that's the most pretentious reply I ever wrote. Hooray!

If the campest space-opera fantasy in the world doesnt have gays and lesbians, there is something very wrong with that galaxy.

It seems strange coming from Bioware seeing as they've peppered their games with homosexual characters for years now. Mainly lesbians (sound marketing after all) like Juhani the gay cat lady in KotOR but certainly Jade Empire included hot man on man action (and threesomes).

But every other one of their games has been made by Bioware in Edmonton, Canada. The Old Republic is being made by Bioware Austin. In Texas. Which means their outlook kinda makes a little more sense.

I expect to see some kind of about turn on the issue.

I bet some PR persons at Bioware feel their ulcers acting up right now.

Bloody Southern Americans then. Anyone see Miley 'I'm a Twat' Cyrus on Jonathan Ross? She did not acknowledge the Four Puffs once, nor the Piano for that matter.

Mental Process He Missed Before Opening His Big Mouth:

"Are there any characters that can be made gay in the game I'm the Community Manager of?"

If yes, don't create a new homophobic policy. Else, continue.

Ive heard Bioware melt babies......and gay people....

that is absolutely disgraceful behavior. I sincerely hope that this blows up into a serious PR clusterfuck for bioware and Lucasarts.

Useless Bioware.

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"Talking about dropping a few levels on the cool scale there."

A company who make Stars Wars games are already rock bottom on the cool scale.

Star Wars The Old Republic - A game about the old christ.. jedi values where a marriage should only be between a man and a female wookie or a twi'lek and a mandalorian or a clone male and a clone female under the blessing of Go.. the Force! Hey there's something wrong about this..

Boba Fett is not gay,

http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/F...

It says so in his song! Lyrics above

Song below

http://mc-chris-boba-fett-mp3-download.k...

Regular reader from Gaygmer here:

You know what I love about Eurogamer - I read about this on kotaku and invariably the general brunt of responses is the generic, ignorant "hyukk hyukk gee maw those them there faggots are sick, hyukk hyukk", then I come here and read some actual intelligent, liberal, open minded responses from folks who aren't necessarily biased towards the LGBT community, yet can see stupidity and bigotry when they spot it regardless.

you folks rock.

Just mentioning the words "homosexual", "lesbian" and "gay" on a forum means all the forum members are more susceptible to catching the Aids

Doh! what have i done... we are all doomed..

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So it's okay for a guy to kiss his own sister in Star Wars, but no homo sexuality whatsoever?

Something isn't right there...

Guess Anthony Daniels won't be appearing in any Bioware games in the near future.

What is the big deal? Self-censorship is the worst. Bioware even have a gay character in their game.

Persona4's main character is gay inside. Gay is not scary, what scarier is how outside world treat them like they don't exist. If STar war has a gay character in the new movie, it would be a classic instead it give us full of BS characters. Learn from Kojima, man!