When I do the occasional interview about
all the gay shit I do, I'm often asked,
"are games getting better?" What they mean is whether the game industry
as a whole is getting more inclusive, more diverse, more tolerant, more progressive, more whatever.
My standard response used to be "a little", then it was "this is a bad question", but these days I'm leaning toward "no, but hopefully it won't matter."
Some journalists hope I'll hand them a nice optimistic little quote to end their article, so that I can resolve their nagging fear that video games will never actually grow up. If you buy that next Halo game and (gasp) enjoy playing it, then are you part of "the problem"? And if you are, hopefully you just have to say 5 Hail Marys and donate to 5 queer people of color Patreons to be forgiven, and that means the numbers are getting better.
My gay sex games are
not some sort of statistical outlier that magically increases the arithmetic average gayness of all video games ever made. Even gay initiatives like
GLAAD's"studio responsibility" scorecards fall into the same trap -- the idea that culture is a type of math, and as long as the grades are getting better, then we can rest easy with this misleading summary of how people supposedly feel.
