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MTV Multiplayer: Microsoft Receptive To Checkbox Solution For Noting Xbox Live User’s Sexual Orientation
Evil Avatar - News Items: MS Apologizes for Ban on Gay Gamertags
The Escapist : Latest News: Microsoft Apologizes to Gay Gamers, Considers Solutions
Wired: Game|Life: Xbox Live Bans Lesbian Gamer, Microsoft Apologizes
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Microsoft Receptive To Checkbox Solution For Noting Xbox Live User’s Sexual Orientation
MTV Multiplayer —
Over at MTVNews.com, I’ve got an interview with Microsoft’s head of policy enforcement for Xbox Live , who notes that the company’s current ban on the words “gay” and “lesbian” is an “inelegant” solution designed to tamp down on offensive Gamertags and profiles. It needs fixing, he says, but that fix won’t involve letting users type the word “gay,” which XBL standards police still see used pejoratively “95% to 98%” of the time. They do like the fix I proposed during the interview: letting users display a symbol or check a box to note sexual orientation. Full story: ...
MS Apologizes for Ban on Gay Gamertags
Evil Avatar - News Items —
... With all the internet uproar concerning homosexuality and Gamertags, Microsoft has finally taken a stand.
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"It is true that as a matter of policy, the expression of relationship preference in ...
Microsoft Apologizes to Gay Gamers, Considers Solutions
The Escapist : Latest News —
... and may be considering alternatives. When a lesbian gamer named Teresa was suspended from Xbox Live for identifying herself as such in her gamer profile, the story quickly spread across the Internet. It sparked outrage against a long-standing Microsoft policy that forbade gamers from including words like "gay" or "lesbian" in their Gamertags and profiles - even catching people like Richard Gaywood, who just wanted to be able to use his real name. Speaking to Stephen Totilo of MTV News and ...
Xbox Live Bans Lesbian Gamer, Microsoft Apologizes
Wired: Game|Life —
... Microsoft has confirmed that their policy bars "the expression of relationship preference in Gamertag profiles and tags, whether that's heterosexual or other," though Stephen Toulouse, Xbox Live program manager for policy and enforcement told MTV that Microsoft is "looking into that policy." ...
Microsoft Comments On Ban Of Gay Gamertags
GayGamer.net —
Stephen Totilo over at MTV news has gotten ahold of a Microsoft rep in regards to the chaos around the lesbian suspended from Xbox Live last week.
"It is true that as a matter of policy, the expression of relationship preference in Gamertag profiles and tags is not allowed across the board, whether that's heterosexual or other," Stephen Toulouse, program manager for policy and enforcement on Xbox Live, told MTV News in a phone interview. "But as we saw when we ran into an issue with this [last year,] we started looking into that policy." ...
Msoft: Gay Tony OK, Gay Gamer Tags Not Yet [Gay Tony]
Kotaku —
... that she was banned from Xbox Live because she identified herself as a lesbian Toulouse told me that his team is working on a solution. The team wants "to provide the capability for our users to express relationship preference or gender without a way for it to be misused." I had suggested letting people mark a checkbox or use a pull-down tab to denote their sexual orientation. ...
