Recently I placed a comment in a post here at the site. The comment came from some un-educated tool who had taken time out of his day to let us know what he thought. I did not name this douchebag in the recent news post, but it still managed to get negative commentary, not aimed at said douchebag, but...

Not sure what to make of this, but it came via Twitter and email with a suggestion we cover it here, so here we are. Cliffy B, or Cliff Bleszinski is of course the guy behind Gears of War, one of the more overly macho game franchises on store shelves today. Color us surprised today when we were sent to a...

Tina Indalecio has written an interesting article over at Psychology Today titled “Homophobia in Virtual Communities” subheading “Hate is Hate, regardless of the environment”. If you enjoy reading what is essentially an academic essay, you’ll find this engaging because it...

As of today (March 5) the Xbox Live code of conduct / online policies has been updated and it now allows gay gamers to state their orientation without fear of banning. The Xbox Live code of conduct page now states that you can use certain terms to “express your relationship orientation in your profile...

Josh “WaxPaper” Bashara, an editor over at ZAM.com (an MMO news site) thought we might be interested in checking out an editorial he recently wrote, which was inspired by “a lot of your coverage of the the Xbox Live “Teresa” story”. In his piece “The Issue and...

It’s not often an Xbox Live Arcade game is released that garners such huge acclaim that it could probably have made it as a stand alone release. Enter Shadow Complex, a new platform-adventure title developed by Chair Entertainment. For us big lezzie gamers though, Shadow Complex also puts us in a quandary...

The new anti-homophobia campaign – Think Before You Speak – features a gamer. The poster features the words “That’s so gamer guy who has more video games than friends” and “Think that’s mean? How do you think That’s So Gay sounds? Hurtful so knock it...

A game released in 2002 is in the headlines this week because it urges the player to shoot gay men before they ‘rape’ the player. Various gay groups are up in arms over “Watch Out Behind You” a web based game written by Frenchman Stéphane Aguie and hosted on Georgian website...

We’ve been looking into the issue of sexuality on Xbox Live, particularly in gamertags and written a small article about it. The whole issue is one that is wrapped in confusion and hypocrisy. We’re still throwing together that open letter to MS and will probably post a draft over the weekend (as...

We posted yesterday regarding ‘Teresa’, a lesbian gamer stating she was banned from Xbox Live after she was harassed by other players. The whole thing managed to get a lot of peoples panties in a twist, including us here at Lesbian Gamers. As we stated then, we are in the midst of getting a...