New gay friendly guild!Follow

Greetings!

I would like to introduce a new guild catering to gay, lesbian, bisexual players and our friends. Although not exclusively for gay players~ we welcome all to come join. Come be a part of the revolution!

Templum Amicitia

Hope to meet some of you soon!

Edited, Sun Jul 11 10:10:41 2004 by Kumael

Edited, Sep 23rd 2006 at 11:49pm EDT by Railus

Good luck, I admire your moxy.

so let me get this straight (no pun intended), it's a guild "catering to gay, lesbian, bisexual players" but you "welcome all to come join", so basically anyone can join, and seeing as i've never seen a guild that has the rule "no gays, lesbians or bisexuals are allowed membership to our guild", your'e not actually revolting against anyone are you? Who is trying to stop you doing this?

editted for a typo

Edited, Sun Jul 11 17:35:32 2004 by Dracoid

Good luck. I'm sure that everyone in the guild will have a gay 'ol time!

Twiztid



The potential puns are endless...

oh ok, it dosen't seem so stupid now i read joph's post

Well, I suppose it will be good because if you are in that guild finding out the female char you've been cybering is really a guy will actualy be considered a plus.

Awesome! Best of luck. :)

I'm not trying to flame - but the unfortunate fact is that people ended up NOT being equal or annoymous and in fact politics, ethnics, and sexual orientation did become a topic of converstation - maybe not too too often, but perhaps often enough that said group that was the center of discussion.

If you have been able to play this game without once having to bring a RL topic into play, great for you. I know I talk about my job, my house, etc. Its how you become social with people.

I also wouldn't think they had an agenda - agenda typically means that you have a set working order of things you want to accomplish in a set timeframe. They didn't announce any time frames.

Finally, I wouldn't say that you need to worry about this. If you don't want part of this guild (or this type of guild), don't join - then you don't need to worry about your little world being torn apart.

But - truth be told, this is not the first guild like this. Do searches on Yahoo for everquest guilds and you will find there actually is a guild of players who are all republicans (shudders)

Edited, Sun Jul 11 21:56:29 2004 by Devilwind

Devilwind..

WHY in the name of GOD should EQ be invaded by RL social, political, or sexual agendas?

People want to be Gay and Proud? People want to hate minorities and be proud of it?

Everquest has ALWAYS been the ONE place I could go and not have to DEAL with RL predjudice and bigotry.

But it's not enough for some people to live and let live. Some selfish bastards with an agenda have to push their morals and ethic into a world that has no room for such things.

CARRY whatever cross you feel the need to carry. ANd bring your pathetic repressed RL to a game that should not be part and partisan to the predjuces of RL.

But don't come back here a month from now and cry because the Gay Haters ruin your gaming experience.

Everquest doesn't need this. But now that you have opened the door, I hope you're happy. I just hope that a minority of EQ players read these boards and that you shut up and play in the spirit of the game.

We don't much care if you're gay, ****, Black, Asian, Communist Chinese, or whatever. All a lot of us care about is that you keep your crap to yourself.

There is no room for you here. Know and understand that.

Oh, you're priceless, you idiot.

You ascribe to a point of view that a community of tolerant people should have to endure the rantings and ravings of not only an "openly gay friendly" guild, but also all the hater guilds that follow in its footsteps.

Are you too stupid to see that a door that should be left closed in our escape from RL is being opened to muck up the ONE thing that separates our gaming world from the RL?

Luckily, only a fraction of EQ players read these boards.

And if you don't see that RL politics and views have no place in our world, then you're either sadly misled or a complete idiot.

I'll leave YOU decide what you are.

Ralston

Wake up and smell the coffee son, RL has already invaded and these folks are not forcing you to be part of them or have to listen to them or anything like that. I have only been in EQ since Feb '04 and I have already seen a pair of bigoted white supremacist types standing in the common by the main bank in PoK on Quellious server spouting their filth for hours at a stretch. This to me is much worse than any guild forming for any reason. That is intrusive. What these folks or any like them who wish to start a guild for whatever reason, be they gay, dwarven, elvish, whatever, are trying to do is get together with others with like feelings. Who are you to say they have no right to do this. Who are you to say that there are no gay 'toons in EQ. Are you one of the gods that you have the right to set the world view of others. Seems a bit egotistical to me. Leave them alone and if they bother you, "ignore" them. No one is forcing you to take part in anything with them and they have as much right to form a guild as you do if you wish. Even, gods forbid, if you should wish to form some form of hate guild that could get past SONY, although I don't think, again thank the gods, that SONY would allow such.

Live and let live. Don't try to force others to your world view. It would be a much less interesting world if we all thought the same on everything.

Good luck with your guild. I don't see why people are so upset over this idea. Who cares if someone has a guild dedicated to something you don't like? You don't have to be in it. You don't even have to interact with them. Surprise! people do introduce differences into a fantasy world. That's what roleplaying is all about. I think it adds flavor to the game.

If I wanted a game where everything I interacted with was exactly the same and vanilla in every way I would play any offline console game with static mobs. A large part of the intrigue of an Online game is that it is filled with different and interesting people. People that don't share my views and I might not normally interact with, maybe people that can offer a little different perspective.

It's ok to interact with different people don't worry the odds are pretty low you will catch the gay just by talking to them...

Good luck to you. I know a few in the game that are gay. They don't hide it and we have tons of fun. They also are not sensitive over it and dish it out as bad as it can be given to them. I love that carefree attitude they have and we are all lucky they are fortunate to have support in our group. As for your new guild I hope you end up as lucky.

As for the negative responses on the board well I guess we all do have free speech. Just wish when a person decides to speak so freely they could take the venem out of the words it really isn't needed nor enjoyed by most of us here.