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When I was young, questioning my sexuality and not quite understanding who I was, I had a lot of people speculating "is he gay?" or other way less friendly slurs. I didn't know the answer to that, because I didn't know what bisexuality was when I was a teenager.
When I was young, questioning my sexuality and not quite understanding who I was, I had a lot of people speculating "is he gay?" or other way less friendly slurs. I didn't know the answer to that, because I didn't know what bisexuality was when I was a teenager.
I was confused by myself because I didn't have any proper education, and once I knew what bisexuality was I didn't really know what it meant because I lived in a rural part of the US, had never (knowingly) met another bi person, and couldn't find representation of them in media.
Representation matters. Whether its sexual orientation, race, culture. It helps you identify with yourself, understand yourself, and feel seen. This is especially powerful for groups of people who still face marginalization and persecution for the way they're born.
Queerbaiting exists, it's not kind, and it has no place in a queer-friendly community or within spaces that promote LGBT rights. There's a place and time for nuance and that isn't it, because to do so is actively damaging to a marginalized community.
Back when I joined Bungie I always felt Saint-14 and Osiris were romantically involved because, as a queer man, their romance made sense to me. I learned my interpretation was in fact correct when I became a narrative designer for the company and I was overjoyed.
I've been writing Saint and Osiris as gay since I started working at Bungie, because that's who they were before. They are private and nuanced characters. There was never a space in which to unequivocally state their identities. But nuance is lost in an age of queerbaiting.
When I saw how much the community was unclear on something as obvious as "is Zavala an Awoken" I realized I should probably just say something. Because it's not a secret, it's not a point of speculation, and it's not some puzzle designed to be solved by the community. It's them.
So yes, Saint and Osiris are gay. Always have been.
You can make the meme yourselves.
You can make the meme yourselves.
Also worth repeating https://twitter.com/Sphynxian/status/1327164804658708480?s=20
