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I'll admit, being a female gamer can have it's advantages sometimes. However, the majority of the time, these advantages leave me feeling disgusting and somehow taken advantage of, not a fun way to feel while trying to play a game for fun. The advantages I refer to are the attention, but more importantly, the presents and gold you can receive by being a female gamer in World of Warcraft. But these advantages (of receiving gold from male gamers) soon turn into feeling yucky in general and sometimes worse. -
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Glasure's first online game was Everquest and her avatar was female. But all anyone noticed were her pixel breasts, and this despite her considerable gaming expertise. Fed up, she switched digital identities. "And I picked the biggest, blackest guy I could find," she says. She called him Stygion Physic — Stygion from the River Styx, Physic for healing. That's the closest she could get to "Bad Medicine" in the game, City of Heroes. And with her change of avatar, her pleasure in the game changed. "When I play this big guy, everybody listens to me," she says. "Nobody argues with me. If there's a group of people standing around, I say, 'OK, everybody follow me!' And they do. No questions asked." -
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FIERCE! is a community organization for Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Queer, and Questioning (TLGBTSQQ) youth of color in New York City. We are dedicated to exploring and building power in our communities through a mix of leadership development, artistic and cultural activism, political education, and campaign development while taking care of ourselves and each other. -
1voteThe Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth provides weekly and monthly social activities and special events for people ages 22 and under. These activities provide an opportunity for youth to socialize, have fun and develop a sense of personal and community identity. BAGLY has a Halloween Dance, Winter Ball, and the world's first and largest LGBT Prom.
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1voteList of organizations around the country that support gay and lesbian youth sorted by state.
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