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BioWare cleansing the term "gay" from The Old Republic

News by Patrick Garratt Contributor

Published on April 28, 2009

Uh oh. BioWare is apparently censoring the words "gay," "homosexual" and "lesbian" from the Old Republic message boards.

Why? According to moderator Sean Dahlberg, "As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars."

At least you're not alone, Stephen. Just a hunch, but you can probably expect this to get quite ugly.

Thanks, Kotaku.

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