Brendan Keogh checks out the the “secret avant garde of video games.”
“Queer people have always been creating culture from the margins,” insists Anna Anthropy, game developer and author. “Like, queer people popularized jeans. It was queer soldiers who started wearing jeans outside of the military, and then that became popular. You have to have an outsider perspective to create something that is meaningful, fashionable, intelligent. Then that is gradually adopted by the mainstream.”