Gay Themed Video Games
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From an interesting look at gay-themed video games:
Yet, while homosexual content is a relatively new frontier for games created on American soil, it’s quite old hat for the Japanese market. Big-name publishers, such as Squaresoft, often place their leading men in homoerotic settings, or in relationships that could be construed, by bevies of giddy, female gamers, as homosexual. There is even a convention—employed in anime and manga, as well as in games—as to how these homosexual pairings should play out. Male characters are relegated to the status of either “seme” or “uke,” words that imply a series of distinct differences in personality and physiognomy. Seme tend to be tall, steely-eyed, and full of manly vigor. Uke are shorter, more boyish, and submissive. The seme is typically demonstrative or abusive toward the uke, and this provides the major source of tension between the two.