I'd like to preface this by saying that my net is capped so I haven't seen the video, but I have listened to whole Fred Phelps rants for my religion class so I figure it can't be worse than that.

Firstly I'd like to address the comment that a Gaygamer site doesn't need to exist as we're all gamers etcetera etcetera.

That is ridiculous, it does, because prejudice from the dominant culture forces people to coalesce into groups of similars to avoid it. And to say that sexuality has nothing to do with gaming know nothing, sexuality has everything to do with everything. I'm not a Freudian (he was a twit) but it is such a prime motivator for action that it will always be a preconcious consideratin in any thought. Also, if the prime society has a negative opinion of who you fundamentally are, the only way you can survive, psychologically, is by being so "out" and saying, "fuck you here I am". People who say "I wouldn't go on as "straight boy" or some such, of course not, because we have been programmed with social schema to see it as normal, to state what is normal is just strange, so that is why it doesn't make sense to you.

Oh, and to beat a dead horse, homophobes are either gay and have such a fear of it due to the prejudicial environment surrounding their development that they turn that self loathing outwards, or, they have a predatory attitude toward women and fear being made the target of domination. Don't argue, it's been researched (with a device to measure activity in the penis whilst observing hetero or homosexual images, would you believe).

So Gay Gamer should exist and they should be able to be out with their sexuality, in their regular lives or their gaming life.

Now, to all the people with this, "Well, what do you expect, it's just trolling", attitude. That is fucked up, would you say that to a girl dressed in next to nothing being raped? Does she deserve it for not wearing modest clothing. I'm not equating being insulted on Live with rape, but the attitude of "victim deserved it" is the same and it sickens me. Stupid or not, the problem is the assault, NEVER the victim.

Lastly to the Halo 3 community. Now, I am new to the world of online FPS, TF2 (LOVE) is the first one I have ever played, but I have heard about the general quality of random pricks with their digital balls out, so I prepared for the worst. Nothing. Nada. Nil, naught, not a goddamn thing. Yesterday I was playing with someone with the name "C@ck Goblin", now regardless of whether or not that person is a straight girl or a gay man, I figured going to an online FPS with a name like that was going to result in a torrent of horrible insults.

Nope, no-one said a thing and everyone was happy. As an aside, I love the people on TF2, I have had nothing but fun, polite and friendly banter with the people so far, another reason why I love it. I mean, someone had the name "I EAT PISS", and still nothing.

I bring this point about TF2 up because I feel that it could be down to a cultural difference in the communities. I've not played on Live, so perhaps I am speaking out of turn, but I think that the culture is feeding this prejudicial, insulting manner back on itself.

One question I have is, have Microsoft ever addressed this at all? If not, I feel that they share some responsibility for the degredation of the culture they host, had they taken a harder stance on suspending the accounts of abusive little fucktards, perhaps the Live community wouldn't be as it seems today.

Ultimately, I think stuff like this needs to be done, as this problem is one of those things we all know but have just learned to ignore. Things like this are important, a quote whose source I can't remember went something like this, "Prejudice is like a pupil, the more light you shine on it, the smaller it gets". I think Gayboy hase shone a good light today.