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Contents:

• MAGIC: THE GATHERG AND GAY REPRENTATN THROUGH PLAY
• GAY PLAYG CARDS
• RUDY GAY TRADG CARDS

MAGIC: THE GATHERG AND GAY REPRENTATN THROUGH PLAY

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Sce s first publitn 1993, hundreds of new rds have been created each year, but wasn’t until the fall of 2016 a supplementary set that we saw a gay uple featured on one.

“Kynas and Tiro of Meletis” (henceforth referred to as ‘K&T’) is the only reprentatn of a livg, explicly gay uple on a MtG rd, ever. Thanks to heteronormativy, most players will assume that people shown on other rds are probably cisgenr and heterosexual, so this puts prsure on K&T to reprent gay people.

If a rd that looks like the perfect reprentatn has room for negative nnotatns anyway, how are we supposed to get good gay/queer reprentatn general?

While this first rd do give MtG s first gay reprentatn, we’ll need more than this rd to alter player perceptn — and this do not necsarily mean rds pictg lovers!