What is Queer Coding? | GHG Show

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Overwatch
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Overwatch (2016)
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Duration: 1:19:47
1,001 views
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We join Samantha (she/her), Astrid (they/them) and Shay (she/her) to talk about how queerness is depicted, subtly and unsubtly, intentionally and unintentionally, in your favourite games.

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0:00 Intro
1:07 Video games have always been queer
7:19 Games inherently upholding the status quo
19:00 Break
19:48 Portal as a queer text
24:41 Examples of effective queercoding
37:40 Queercoding vs queerbaiting
53:13 Break
53:32 Queer aesthetics and the corporate sanitisation of it all
1:07:25 Queer reclamation of straight characters
1:17:44 Recommendations and outro

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