It fucking sucks. Horde is all about marginalized communities, but it also attracts toxic cishet boys with something to prove and it needs to stop.
So fellow Horde RP friends, please shout down the homophobes, make LGBT inclusive RP events and guilds, show bigots they donāt deserve to be in the Horde community. Those of us who can, should. Because there are other LGBT people out there in our faction who feel like they donāt have a space and a voice, and I wonāt stand for it.Ā
Also for those wondering hereās a great way to make anĀ āinclusive RP eventā or anĀ āinclusive RP guildā hereās a quick rundown:
Donāt come up with reasons (lore-based or otherwise) why LGBT+ characters should not be included
If your event/guild cannot exist without reasons why LGBT+ characters should not be included, the event/guild is dumb
Spending more than ten minutes trying to come up with a reason for why LGBT+ characters should not/cannot be included means that the reason youāll arrive at was found through mental gymnastics.
THE POINT OF RP IS TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER!Ā
INCLUSION BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER!Ā
BIGOTRY PUSHES PEOPLE APART!
IF LORE ACCURACY MEANS LGBT+ CANāT PARTICIPATE, DITCH IT!
so like⦠when people say āgo outsideā they just mean āyou need to get off tumblr for a while because your world view is extremely sheltered and warped by internet politicsā
saying āthatās ableist because some people canāt physically go outsideā is just taking it literally and completely missing the point lol
we will never see prominent canon queer characters in WoW and thatās why community events like Pridecraft are important, because even if the game/Blizzard doesnāt want us we can still be proud of ourselves and proud of the stories and characters weāve made