Thank you for sharing your experience as a kid, it’s the kind of stuff that I’m writing this paper for in the first place! If I do make it publicly accesible, I’ll share it on Lemmy for those who wish to read it. I made this account for that purpose honestly.

I can try to look at some cozy games, although I think that the reason why these types of games appeals to LGBTQ+ gamers is because they’re typically indie games, which have a higher chance of having queer chracters or the creators themselves are queer. I do plan to note how games will have diverse gender options, but then forget to change things that you mentioned.

I know about Splatoon 3, as I play the games myself! Acht is also nonbinary (or uses they/them), so there’s that too. Thank you for the Spryo input, I’ll check it out as I don’t often see people talking about asexual characters in games. Same for the GLAAD study, I have to look at that now.

I do plan to talk about some online gaming, as many of the sources I found talk about World of Warcraft’s issues with LGBTQ+ players and how they struggled to make a space for themselves. Thank you for your input!

Thank you for your input! I’ll see if I can tie that into my topics.