Watch: Nintendo Characters Celebrate Gay Marriage
After gamers took to social media to criticize nintendo for not including the ability to marry a same-sex character in their upcoming game, Tomodachi Life, Nintendo responded saying that they hope to be more inclusive in the future.
Sunday Night’s episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver poked fun at Nintendo’s response.
(via Kotaku)
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Gay gamer convention GaymerCon to be picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church
GaymerCon, which is described as “the first gaming and tech convention with a focus on LGBT geek culture,” has become the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church’s latest picketing target.
The Westboro Baptist Church published a video condemning the convention after Gaymercon gather press coverage for their successful Kickstarter campaign:
“We need yet another area of life where fag filth is intentionally called out and crammed down our throats?”
“What we’ve all been longing for: a fag-focused gaming convention! #MustPicket” tweeted Rebekah Phelps-Roper, one of church’s members.
GaymerCon is scheduled for the late summer of 2013 and will be held in San Francisco.
Last week, GaymerCon raised $12,223 USD from their Kickstarter project within just 24 hours. The Kickstarter project reached it’s goal of $25,000 in less than 4 days. The project’s funding period still has 20 days left and is currently at $45,142 with 861 individual backers.
Watch the full Westboro Baptist Church video (Warning: Offensive)
GaymerCon on Kickstarter More information: Gaymercon.org, Twitter, Facebook
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