We had a look over the other characters on the Overwatch roster, tirelessly pored through their backstories, compared notes, looked for hints, and compiled a list of the other characters in the game that we believe might just be… gay. You can read our much more serious thoughts on this issue, and how it reflects the writing in Overwatch, over here.īut that’s not all, right? If characters like this are meaningful and important to the LGBT community, and representation matters (which it very much does), then surely in another two years we’re going to find out that another character is gay. We’ve known for a while that Tracer is gay, too, and in a happy relationship. He specifically dated a man named Vincent in the past. In the latest data drop, we got confirmation of something that many fans long knew in their hearts - Soldier: 76, real name John Francis “Jack” Morrison, is gay. We receive these offerings like the folks at the Citadel in Fury Road: desperately holding our pails to the sky as Immortan Joe releases our meager water rations. Overwatch lore is drip-fed to fans over time, with new morsels of information occasionally passed on through cinematics, short stories, or comics.
