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pylduck ([personal profile] pylduck) wrote2006-02-13 09:03 am
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wow pride!

Gay rights on WoW. This news bit is somewhat surprising. I didn't realize World of Warcraft administrators actually policed language and communications that much (or at all?). Maybe because there IS rampant, juvenile homophobic taunting on the servers.

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Gay pride marches are known to have taken place in Warcraft and there are many other guilds in the game that are known to be friendly toward the gay community.
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It would be rad to go on a gay pride march with my gnome mage!
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[identity profile] slanderous.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone bigoty probably reported her to a GM; the GMs don't seem to listen to chat at all on their own. Blizzard was deleting threads about the issue as fast as possible from their forums all last week! Lots of GLBT players (and allies) were threatening to cancel their subscriptions. It was talked about on Fandom Wank too.

[identity profile] pylduck.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. I mean, wow. I had no idea people were actually talking about this stuff. I'm so out of it. Thanks for the links! I might derail my conference presentation on communications and democratic social structures in WoW into a discussion of this uproar.

[identity profile] slanderous.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It would totally apply!!
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