1. Relationships: Video Game Vanessa Lopez Rodriguez INGL 4057 ue Q er

2. What is Queer? Strange Odd Homosexual ue Q er “Queer theory and activism frame culture as the chief battleground on which to fight against the regulations of sexuality”. Smith Wides: Emergence of the Variant Sexuality Issue Culture

3. Queer Relationships “Queering relationships means thinking and acting outside of the traditional hetero- relation paradigm-for, after all queer is antithetical to the kind of boxes, borders, and oppressive qualities that have constituted the heterosexual model of relating”. ue Q er Elia: Queering Relationships

4. Queer Relationships Homosexual vs. Heterosexual Relationships – Not the “same” Heterosexuality encoded the structure of relations. Social Construction ue Q er Heteronormativity: “It is constructed as a coherent, natural fixed had stable category: as a universal and monolithic”. Richardson: Theorizing Heterosexuality

5. Queer Nation “Queer Nation has created an organizational structure that is nonhierarchical and decentralized”. “Within a culture which multiplies division, queer activism seek an attempting to mobilized on the basis of diversity, striving to value all individuals left powerless and unrepresented in heteronormative social structure”. ue Q er Slagle: In Defense of Queer Nation: Form Identity Politics to a Politics of Difference

6. Video Game ue Q er

7. Video game Mass Effesct 3 Plot: ue Q er

8. Video Game Semi Open World Where a player con roam almost freely through a virtual world and is given considerable freedom in choosing some objectives. ue Q er Decisions have consequences. Don’t have a lineal story.

9. Video Game Role Playing Game – Game in which players assume the role of their characters. – Emotional and psychological decisions. – Not to make point for the game. ue Q er

10. Video Game Avatar: Virtual character. You take physiological decisions with the avatar. ue Q er

11. Video Game Bi-Curious: Curiosity: Virtual avatar can experiment sensations. Homosexual or bisexual relations. ue Q er

12. Video Game Watch YouTube Videos: – Mass Effect 3: Women’s Scene http://youtube.com/watch?v=kKD-f3glynM – Mass Effect 3: Man’s Scene – http://youtube.com/watch?v=sEywUpl2eA http://youtube.com/watch?v=sEywUpl2eA ue Q er

13. Video Game Triple A Game Mains stream: action and story. Not an erotic game: the goal is not for the homosexual relations Not just lesbian relations. ue Q er

14. Queer Relationships: Video Game 1. Creators considered the homosexual relations. Help to have their space to play. 2. Wakes up curiosity Avatars do in the semi- open what the player would not do in real life. 3. Game works as: Closet Come out of the closet ue Q er