The gay WoW entry continues to get comments about new guilds or searching for new guilds. I should give WoW another go.

Gay Gamers on World of Warcraft

WoW General Discussion – This was found in one of the forums. It’s in that pretty blue color which means it’s from an WoW representative, I think.

Apologies for the length of time it took to get this information out to you.

We encourage community building among our players with others of similar interests, and we understand that guilds are one of the primary ways to forge these communities. However, topics related to sensitive real-world subjects — such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example — have had a tendency to result in communication between players that often breaks down into harassment.

To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.

We will be clarifying some of the language in our game policies in order to help avoid such confusion in the future.

Reading this response makes it clear that Blizzard isn’t stopping the guilds from forming. It just prevents recruitment inside the game via open chat.

This may be sensible and I think I agree with this.

Another link is here: Blizzard apologizes for GLBT guild warning | News.blog | CNET News.com

I do enjoy playing World of Warcraft, but it is tiring to read “That’s so gay” from other players (usually used as a negative remark.) It is one of the reasons I still want to find gay folks to play with (lack of time has prevented me from really doing this, but there are others who want the same thing.)

Hey Blizzard, knock it off. Let people with common interests find one another in the game!

Update: Neat quote at Boing Boing: World of Warcraft: Don’t tell anyone you’re queer

In real life, you can be a citizen with rights. In gamelife, you’re a customer with a license agreement.

Update: Another link: Online game warns gay-lesbian guild | CNET News.com

Anyway, the entry was really well written and brightened my day today. Kudos to the author!

Found via Photo Matt

There is a couple of guilds that are comprised of gay or gay friendly member already. I may seek them out, but for now, I’d just like to meet some other players and nothing too formal like a guild yet.

So, if anyone is gay or gay friendly, drop a comment here and maybe we can all hook up (heh) in the game.

A source to SyFy Portal said that the mission of the NX-01 is not the only thing being changed this season. The words “Star Trek” are being added back to the title.

Theory is that this is due to Smallville being on at the same time this fall. Clark … Trip … Clark … Trip. (Clark is hotter in my book!)

Metrosexual: (noun) Of or pertaining to a straight, urban male who is eager to embrace and even show off his feminine side, especially when it comes to expensive haircuts, designer suits, and $40 face cream.

In the game you can make or buy clothing to customize even further. What more could a fashion sensible gay bounty hunter or smuggler want?

I am not positive about this, but I think I have been able to find other gay characters via the Community dialog. I set it up for me being a male and searching for a male. It kept flagging perfect matches with other characters. I actually tracked one down last night and found him to be very nice, but I didn’t ask on the gay issue. I just flirted alot and then kissed him goodbye. He was very nice and gave me some new clothes . Not only that, but his character was rather good looking for a computer image!

Anyway, it’s pretty fun so far and I can’t wait to continue to explore strange new worlds and new civilizations (oh wait..)

Go visit their web site at The Gaylactic Network – The Home of Gay Fandom on the Web. Imagine a convention hotel filled with gay geeks, just like me. .

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme Court struck down a Texas ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.