By Eyder Peralta
The release of the role playing game Sims 3 brought a change to interpersonal relationships: Gay couples can now officially marry.
Lyle Masaki at After Elton writes that when the game debuted in 2000, opposite sex couples could marry, while "gay couples could only move in together." The Sims 2 allowed gay couples to be "joined." But now, like in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa, Sims avatars are allowed to say, "I do."
Masaki sums it up thus:
It may seem like a small step for a game series that has always been LGB-inclusive, but games that treat gay people equally are still pretty rare. Homophobia is still sadly common among video game communities and, worse, some companies' attempts to deal with anti-gay harassment have ended up being even more repressive to queer players.
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