Carolyn Petit is host of the miniseries Queer Tropes.
Carolyn Petit is host of the miniseries Queer Tropes.
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Anita Sarkeesian is back with Feminist Frequency video on queer tropes in games

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Anita Sarkeesian, the creator of the award-winning video criticism series Feminist Frequency, has returned with a new video series on Queer Tropes in Video Games.

The three-part miniseries examines the depiction of queers in games, much like Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games looked at the representation of females in games. Sarkeesian has never shied from controversy, and her new series will likely trigger strong reactions again. She was subjected to considerable harassment after the debut of the first series in 2013.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.