First and foremost, I just joined Destructoid a few minutes ago and, thus, this is my first post. Because of that, don't be too harsh on me.

Now to my point. Perhaps not so recently, Rockstar released the achievements list for Bully for the Xbox 360. One of the achievements, entitled "Over the Rainbow" (which is comedic genius), for kissing 20 or so boys during the course of the game. Kudos to Rockstar for continuing their style of humor into their achievements.

Because of this achievement, I've seen some responses in various forums indicating that playing this game will either lead to the promotion of a "gay agenda" or somehow make them gay. What's amazing is that Bully has a release date of March 3, 3008, at least to my knowledge. Therefore, the people who are criticizing this game have not played it.

Weren't these the same people insulting (justifiably, I might add) Cooper Lawrence and the rest of the Fox News regime for their comments on Mass Effect? It was apparent that none of those people had played Bioware's masterpiece and the gaming community called them out on it. Now, here we (and I use the term "we" very loosely) doing the same thing. It's disgusting on two levels. That is, the furtherance of both hypocrisy and homophobia.

I am neither gay nor bisexual, but this homophobia in the gaming community needs to stop. Unfortunately, when you're dealing with sheltered pubescent teenagers, I fear that the formation of these erroneous and bigoted opinions will never stop.