polygondotcom:Closing the gap between queer and mainstream games I sobbed when I finished Gon
polygondotcom: Closing the gap between queer and mainstream games I sobbed when I finished Gone Home. I sobbed because the closing beat of the narrative moved me to tears but also because I finally felt my own queer womanhood reflected back at me within the context of a fully realized game world. Queer women are so often rendered invisible or consigned to the margins of representation. But Gone Home put a queer woman front and center and allowed me to breathe in the lush details of her story for an entire evening. My tears kept coming because I never expected to find this breath of fresh air in a video game. It’s not that Gone Home is the first video game to contain queer themes. (Link to the full story) -- source link