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Alum Bo Ruberg on Video Games Have Always Been Queer at UCLA

06 Jul, 2019

Alum Bo Ruberg on Video Games Have Always Been Queer at UCLA

The Daily Bruin highlighted Bo Ruberg's visit to May 1st UCLA to discuss their latest book, Video Games Have Always Been Queer. The article by Brooke Cuzick discusses Bo's research into LGBTQ+ representation in video games.

From the article:

“To look at the ways (video games) relate to queer experience, or queer desire, even when (the games) don’t seem to have any queer people in them, is kind of the specialty of my research,” Ruberg said. “I’m finding queerness in games in ways that are still really meaningful even if there aren’t any LGBT people represented in these games.”

Read the full article here!