Some links to articles/topics mentioned in our Dragon Age presentation

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• "Straight Male Gamer" Told to "Get Over It" by Bioware - (openly gay) head writer of Dragon Age 1-3 David Gaider talks about privilege and choice


• The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pantsless Rogue - sex positive female characters, female friendships and Dragon Age II's Isabela


• Roleplaying Homosexual in Dragon Age II - infamous game reviewer Yahtzee responds to the aftementioned "your romance options don't canter to the straight male gamer" controversy by writing about his playthrough as a male Hawke romancing Anders


• How I Realised My Dragon Age: Inquisition Character is Gay - a straight male gamer writes about realising that "it turns out there is a Right Person for me in Dragon Age: Inquisition. I knew it the second I saw him". (Spoiler: it's Dorian.)


• The "straight dudes for Dorian" Reddit thread


• Patrick Weekes, new head writer for the Dragon Age series and one of the main writers on Dragon Age 3, writes about the process of creating trans character Cremisius Aclassi

Finally, if you're on PC, the games are avaliable through EA's not very good Origin service. As far as I can tell, Origin is also avaliable for Mac. The first 2 games are also avaliable in their entirety on Xbox 360/PS3. (The third is only fully avaliable on PC/PS4/Xbox One.)