from Joe.My,God

By Joe

The Stonewall Family, a community of LGBT players in the massively popular World Of Warcraft game, has been honored by the site's operators as their "Guild of the Month." Coming from the Pong era, I'm not going to pretend that I understand how it all works, but it seems like a sweet story at the end of a week of nonsense and hatred. The history of the Stonewall Family:

Our meta-guild, The Stonewall Family, originally started as a single guild – La Familia de Stonewall. It was founded in late 2007 by a handful of friends who had tried other gay/lesbian/bi/transgender and LGBT-friendly raiding guilds... but always felt they were somewhat lost in the shuffle, and never really felt a sense of "family". They wanted to start a guild where the social aspects of play and friendships were the most important factor, and where they would be able to avoid any anti-lgbt harassment. From that small group of friends, we have grown to a "meta-guild" of over 700 members across 5 sub-guilds today. [La Familia De Stonewall, The Family of Stonewall, Stonewall Rioters, Die Familie von Stonewall, La Banque de Stonewall]

I looked at the WoW site once, couldn't figure out where to insert the quarters.

XBOX bans lesbian gamer

By Anthony Van Hoe on XboxLive

Filed under: Gay Rights, News, International, Lesbian, New York

News - Trouble for Microsoft as news emerged that a woman, who identified herself as a lesbian in her profile on XBOX Live, was banned from the service.

The Consumerist reports that the woman, going by the name Teresa, said she was harassed by several players. They followed her to different games and told other players to turn her in to Microsoft because they didn't want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap.

Her account was suspended and she was told by Microsoft that other gamers found her sexual orientation offensive.

Microsoft officials confirmed that their policy bars any expression of relationship preference in profiles and said to be looking into that policy.

Read the full report on The Consumerist here.

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