Saturday, July 18, 2009

Today, we're not all Georgians (The Video Game Where You Kill Gays )

The Video Game Where You Kill Gays  | News | Advocate.com
A video game that features a hunter shooting gay people is creating a furor in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The video game is hosted by a Georgian website but has already been banned in France, the home of the video game's creator, reports France24.com. The objective of the game is to shoot nudists "before they bugger you."

A group called Gay Armenia is "completely disgusted," finding it particularly shocking that the concept was adopted by "those religious-minded people in Tbilisi, Georgia, who swear in the name of Georgian patriarchy and constantly cite Bible to ‘justify' their homophobia and hatred. Is this their (un-)‘orthodox' way of bringing up children by creating an image of an enemy (= gays) and teaching how to deal with it (= kill them)?"

The game, "Watch Out Behind You, Hunter," actually launched back in 2002....


No comments: