"Ren faire used to be cool but now it's woke" is like 2 degrees away of saying that about Pride. One thing I've genuinely liked about comic conventions and and ren faires is that it always felt like a safe space for the queer community. This is just straight up nonsense.
Me with Dungeons and Dragons. When I first met a aggressively homphobic DnD player, I was generally shocked they existed. My queer, DnD, and kink groups were just short of being represented as a single-circle Venn diagram.
In my longest running DnD group, I was the only straight person. I'm getting ready to start a new group and I think it's closer to a 50/50 split. My wife and her friend are both bi but I donno about the dm or the other 2(?) players.
They already say that about pride, don't they? They don't say it is "woke" but basically say that pride was "better" when it wasn't about all that gay stuff.
I mentioned my longtime DnD group in the other comment. I was the only straight person. But I've played DnD with bi, gay, lesbian, trans, and even furries lol. We only turned away one person that was part of a sort of open relationship quasi poly thing a gay couple we are longtime friends with because he started hitting on my wife both in and out of character.
"Ren faire used to be cool but now it's woke" is like 2 degrees away of saying that about Pride. One thing I've genuinely liked about comic conventions and and ren faires is that it always felt like a safe space for the queer community. This is just straight up nonsense.
Me with Dungeons and Dragons. When I first met a aggressively homphobic DnD player, I was generally shocked they existed. My queer, DnD, and kink groups were just short of being represented as a single-circle Venn diagram.
In my longest running DnD group, I was the only straight person. I'm getting ready to start a new group and I think it's closer to a 50/50 split. My wife and her friend are both bi but I donno about the dm or the other 2(?) players.
They already say that about pride, don't they? They don't say it is "woke" but basically say that pride was "better" when it wasn't about all that gay stuff.
Most of the people I play tabletop with are gay, trans, bi..some or whom I met at a convention. This tracks.
I mentioned my longtime DnD group in the other comment. I was the only straight person. But I've played DnD with bi, gay, lesbian, trans, and even furries lol. We only turned away one person that was part of a sort of open relationship quasi poly thing a gay couple we are longtime friends with because he started hitting on my wife both in and out of character.