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The 4-Decade Awkward March of Gay Rights Thru Video Games

By Queerty Staff May 13, 2010 at 8:05am

This history of gay rights in video gaming (click to enlarge) was almost complete, except there really should’ve been a box for “When Apple refused to let the iPad become one big porn vibrator.”

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  • Andrew

    The Sims kind of mirrors the real world here…

    May 13, 2010 at 11:05am
  • Hilarious

    Not to be a huge geek but technically on Dragon Age it would be interracial between an elf and a human because both are still humanoids with no vast differences. Just saying.

    May 13, 2010 at 3:05pm

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