GameRevolution Goes Gay For GaymerX, The First LGBT Gaming Convention [Update: Full Interview Posted]

Our auto-generated Related Games might be a little prejudiced... lol.

Is someone babysitting mama?

I see nothing wrong with including the GB Pokemon TCG, works for me. But I spent probably an abnormal amount of time with it... and bought a complete Japanese version of it a few years back. ^_^

In a King of All Cosmos kind of way.

It's also the name of about one million LGBT gamers in the U.S. alone.

Matthew Michael Brown is his name and he will be a Boss of Honor at the convention, just FYI.

He's a very pretty man as well. Just feel the need to add that little piece of information. I met him at E3 in 2011, he's a really nice fella. :-D

Trendy? As a gay woman I'd appreciate it if my sexuality wasn't likened to a college co-eds decision on what dress she's wearing on a night out on the town. You may be seeing more openly LGBT people and events out there but it's not because it's a "trend" it's because more LGBT people feel safe being who they are publicly in this country. As Chunibrow and silverstorm already pointed out, Kayce and Matt talk very candidly about how they don't want to exclude people from this convention. They are marketing it to LGBT people but they aren't saying that heterosexual people can't go. They want to create an environment of inclusiveness, which is something many people from the LGBT community have yet to experience in certain parts of the U.S. especially if they are transgender. But if you still don't get it, you can check out the link below, The Escapist did a great piece on this topic.

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GaymerX has no problem with having straight people attend too. Many of the panels and events are gay-oriented but just as many are rather universal topics.

It's a little different since this is self-exclusion rather than separate but equal under the law. But I guess my answer is that we already have "a normal convention that LGBT attend" and it's called PAX. It's a great place where gamers of all kinds can mingle freely, and at GDC everyone is merely an industry professional. But there are LGBT issues that aren't discussed and there's always a level of discomfort for LGBT people when we have to fit into the heteronormal space. And then there are LGBT gaymers who feel even more excluded because video games tend to be associated with that heteronormal space. I see GaymerX as a two-day vacation where gaymers feel free and open with who they are, especially those who are not completely out and live in the part of the country where they are discriminated against.

I would love to see a reboot of Legends of the Hidden Temple... if Kurt Fog isn't up for the reboot, I'll host it myself.

Actually on-topic though, I've very much looking forward to this con. I was able a few months back to fleetingly meet the group of organizers, and they're really nice fellas with their hearts in the right place, so I'm interested to see just how well things go. As for the Westboro Baptist Church, I admit I want to see them there. That'll mean it's more likely to be a success, and there might be another one in a year or two.

TO the SHRINE!
...of the ~Silver Monkeeeey~

I *Love* how Olmec said that. XD

I fondly remember my grandma watching soap operas when I was like 5 and she was babysitting me.
Any time the white woman who was dating a black guy would appear, she'd remind me that the Bible says they shouldn't be dating each other.

(She was referring to, you know, the 12 tribes of Israel being told to not marry outside their tribe.
...Made ironic by the fact that she was half Native American and my grandpa was a total Scottish pastey white guy, so ah....)