Bellze (They/Xey)
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Bellze (they/xey) is a Developmental Editor and copy editor at OutWrite. They are a second year transfer student and English major. They are absolutely enamored with video games, their dog named Puddles, and their frog tattoos.

Apocalyptic Queer Rage: “The Last of Us” Redefines Queerness in Video Games 

The gaming community ten years ago was a toxic space for marginalized people, including the LGBTQ+ community. Video games in the early 2010s had minimal LGBTQ+ representation, and the scant representation that did exist portrayed LGBTQ+ people in an unpleasant light. The video games that were sympathetic to LGBTQ+ were few and far between and usually not considered triple-A games (a term for video games made by major video game publishers who have access to higher quality development and a larger budget).