Gay gamers

A space for LGBTQIA+ gamers and straight/cis allies to be able to feel and home and bond over their love of games no matter how you identify. Containing gay characters or plot lines. We work with community centers across the country, and we work with retailers to create safe spaces.

Find games available in English tagged Gay like A Date with Death, ERROR, Cupid's Kiss: a short, romance comedy, A Role to Play, Lookouts onthe indie game hosting marketplace. Now their designated room is a hub for connection and a symbol of how far queer gaming has come.

Even though I read as pretty masc to a lot of folks, I still don't feel comfortable or like I always fit in. The game goes on to say that everyone is a princess: "There are girl princesses, boy princesses and nonbinary princesses.

A lot of places, there's a blatant hostility towards people who are outside a certain assumed demographic. That mission resonates across the Midwest — and matters more than convention politics might suggest.

Gaymer Wikipedia

Gaymer and gay gamer are umbrella terms used to refer to the group of people who are gamers as homosexual and have an active interest in video games or tabletop games, also known as gamers. Tabletop Gaymers' origin story reads like a quest narrative with real-world stakes.

How you express your gender is awesome. The game about being a Saturday morning cartoon princess includes a section on gender: "Gender is a complicated subject that is a bit outside of the scope of this game; that said, we want you to know that who you are is important.

As president of Tabletop Gaymershe and his co-founders, Zach Lones and Jeff Sorensen has seen this group grow from a handful of friends distributing Pride flags to a thriving community celebrating its 10th anniversary at Gen Con The emotional weight behind those tears reflects a profound shift in tabletop gaming.

Perhaps most powerfully, Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast told the story of "trans youth who have been kicked out of their homes and go into the forest and find an elderly trans couple running a bed and breakfast. You are valuable. At Gen Con, this philosophy extended beyond individual games.

In gay, I had plenty of experiences where I'd go to a hobby shop with Ben, and I'd get ignored or people would be rude. As Ben Lippi, co-owner of Opal Grove Games in Detroit, explained in our May story about the inclusive gaming space they created with partner Aisha Blake, "A lot of stores I've been in previously, I haven't always felt comfortable in or like I can be myself.

The need for these spaces becomes clear when examining gaming demographics alongside representation gaps. Founded in after then-Gov. Gen Con CEO Adrian Swartout wrote a letter to Pence hours after the legislation landed on his desk: "Gen Con proudly welcomes a diverse attendee base, made up of different ethnicities, cultures, beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities and socio-economic backgrounds.

Qweerty Gamers

Justin Nauman watched the line snake around Community Row, each person clutching convention badges already adorned with rainbow ribbons. The transformation isn't just symbolic. Over four days, queer joy was evident at nearly every table. Back then, Tabletop Gaymers were a handful of friends handing out rainbow ribbons for gamers to attach to their convention badge.

Tabletop gaming offers something different — the freedom to create inclusive narratives. As Blake noted about opening Opal Grove Games, "A big part of why we opened the store in the first place was that we didn't feel like there was a place where we could have a real gaming community that was welcoming of anyone.

Some princesses are trans, some princesses are cisgendered… What is important is that everyone is a princess. They observed that there are now so many queer vendors at the convention that they can't all make it into the Gaymer Quest the quest is limited to Games like Stonewell Rising, "a two-player deck building game in which players are either 'The Man' or 'Pride,' fighting for or against equal rights" and which "covers multiple different decades of queer history," demonstrated how tabletop gaming can educate while entertaining.