Queerness in Video Games

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today we're talking about queerness in video games. We'll be starting in the 80s with one of the first queer video games, Caper in the Castro, before moving on to Nintendo's controversial trans character Birdo, and ending with what may be the world's first online pride parade, which took place in World of Warcraft. Join us for a noir detective story, trans dinosaurs and our dubious knowledge of how the internet works. Play Caper in the Castro online here, and if you do, please donate to an HIV/AIDS charity of your choice such as UNAIDS or our local Thorne Harbour Health. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.8	and throughout time.
0:04.8	I'm Alice.
0:05.6	I'm Jason.
0:06.5	And I'm Eli.
0:07.6	And today we're talking about the queer history of video games.
0:18.9	Before we get started, we respectfully acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nation,
0:23.2	and we pay our respects to their elders both past and present,
0:25.7	and we acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to the land on which this podcast is recorded.
0:30.1	I have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:33.0	This episode will include mentions of fictional kidnapping and murder,
0:36.9	discussions of real
0:37.7	and fictional queerphobia, including misgendering and arrest of a trans character over
0:42.5	bathroom use, and the use of one homophobic slur, and also discussions of the AIDS epidemic.
0:48.4	If any of that is something you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this episode and
0:51.8	check out our other content.
0:53.5	If you listen to our previous episode, you would have heard that we said at the end of
0:56.7	that that this episode was going to be hosted by Irene, and beyond the lesbians and gays
1:00.8	support the minors group.
1:02.2	As you might have noticed, this is not that episode.
1:05.2	Unfortunately, we're back in lockdown at the moment, so we're not able to see Irene,
1:08.9	but as soon as we are, we will be recording
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