To Fellow LGBTQ+ Players, Do You Primarily Play LGBTQ+ coded Sims?

Kurotard · July 2022

To say I've seen a lot of... transphobia and homophobia in the forums and Twitter is an understatement. I wanted to ask fellow LGBTQ+ players if they also played these types of Sims/families, since the orientation update is coming soon. Jerks need not apply.

mightysprite · July 2022

No

I can't say "primarily," but having LGBTQ+ sims randomly appear in my game is really important to me.
I roll for gender identity at the child birthday and sexual orientation at the teen birthday and I use proportions pretty similar to the general population when doing that, so I end up with a majority of cisgender and heterosexual sims, but a pretty significant minority of other identities too.

(I am cisgender and bi/pansexual in real life.)

alanmichael1 · July 2022

Yes

I only play gay men - now only with body hair 😍

SnaveXs · July 2022

I just want the option to play like I intend to. Whether I personally like males or females in real life. I want my straights straight, my gays gay and my bisexuals to be just that. I have LGBT character's with straight parents and siblings. Some are the matriarch/patriarch of their family. I have gay and straight celebrity sims like Ru Paul, Ellen, Frank Ocean, Bob Harper, Steph Curry, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Snoop Dogg and Oprah. They don't have homes but they are extras in my sims world. I will assign their real life sexual orientations when I get the update. They have a whole mod to make sims homophobic, if someone wants that but I know this game isn't about to add anything like that because they don't even let sims fight without shaking hands afterwards.

Simmingal · July 2022

Well I guess I play mostly straights tbh but also some gay lesbian and pan and its kinda just determined by what kind of premades they add since i play mainly premade families and don't change much of them

can't say ive made much trans sims cause idk I just haven't really thought of doing so i guess

as for me myself i do consider myself to be asexual but tbh rest of it is just insert confusion

I don't actually play ace sims much cause idk its just kinda like i don't really make many sims like myself i have enough of existing as me irl and therefore i tend to explore other things in game

UniqueKhaos · July 2022

No

Depends on where the story takes me. Some of my favorite couples have been f/f couples.

Ray_Trace · July 2022

Yes

All the time. Asexual is the default Sim I play with.

halloweenchild · July 2022

No

No, sometimes if the story goes that way then yes.

Kimmer · July 2022

No

Not primarily, but I have few LGBTQ+ Sims and families in my saves. One of my oldest and favorite households is actually a gay couple and their two children.

SERVERFRA · July 2022

Yes

I mostly play Asexual & Hetro so this will be so much appreciated for my sims.

musteni · July 2022

Pretty much all my sims are bi, but I rarely specifically play LGBTQ+ it's just how I see my game world.

SnowBnuuy · July 2022

Yes

Most of my sims are LGBTQ+, and every main protagonist of one of my SimLit series is trans or nonbinary. It’s not particularly often that a character will strike me as straight. Out of all my characters I think I have about 4 who are straight.

Nushka · July 2022

Yes

I don't make the majority of my sims LGBT+ but I end up playing mostly with those who are.

rubygloomz · July 2022

Yes

as a lesbian, i must admit i do make most of my sims lesbians or sapphics in one way or another :3

simgirl1010 · July 2022

No

Some, but not primarily.

LeGardePourpre · July 2022

I don't define myself, just I am who I am.

My sims are like me, just they live their life.

Dragonfire2lm · July 2022

Yes

All the sims I play are one of two mindsets-

"This is my self-insert OC/this is me as a sim but cooler"

or

"This is an OC from one of my fanfics"

And all of them are demisexual and demiromantic...as in I don't have them flirt with/romance another sim until the friendship meter is maxed out and/or they're best friends...

I'm mostly a goal orientated player wherein I do certain things per playthrough, like get all the plants, or do a certain aspiration, or whatever. Not much of a story driven one.

DaniRose2143 · July 2022

Yes

I do primarily play LGBTQIA sims. Almost every save starts with some version of my favorite sim, and I play her as lesbian in the majority of cases. Most of my stories have multiple LGBTQIA couples or single sims. I don't play transgender or intersex sims because the options for depicting a male assigned sim who presents as female aren't very good. I was hoping the inclusion of the trans pride flag in the roadmap promo graphic was a sign that this issue was going to be addressed, but it isn't. Not in this update anyway.

friendlysimmers · July 2022

No

as a player of the sims for my sims single life only raising there family if i make a single parent with sims kids

dominoes007 · July 2022

Yes

I mainly make homosexual or bisexual men. I actually find it a little difficult to make heterosexual characters, and even when I do, their children generally all end up LGBTQIA.

Onverser · July 2022

Yes

Always, my game is concerningly undiverse. When I’m making townies though I don’t make them with the idea that they’re going to be attracted to either, I just place them in and watch who they flirt with. Yesterday in my game I saw a female townie that I made autonomously romantic dancing with another female sim which I thought was sweet

EnkiSchmidt · July 2022

No

I self identify as male, but am still biologically female (no surgery or hormone replacement). Because of my personal experience when I feel a sim is a different gender than what they were born with, I take them into cas.fulleditmode and give them a one-click, pain-free full switch to what they feel they should be. Darling Walsh always gets that treatment (FtM), and I also give Lia Hauata the feminine frame, reasoning that trans sims have access to alien tech that allows for a full chromosome replacement. It's my personal utopia.

I have a smattering of queer sims, mostly gay men, a single aromantic/heterosexuell sim (for whom I'm very excited about the upcoming sexuality options) and two nonbinary sims. But the majority are cis/hetero, albeit open for experimenting.

Amapola76 · July 2022

No

I play rotationally, with the played households basically maxed out, and part of my big picture goal has always been to have a world full of sims that represent the world I live in, full of sims of all races and religions, household compositions, income levels, and yes, identities and orientations. That being said, the LGBTQ+ population in my game is probably around 20% of my played households, so a bit higher than IRL (though probably representative of my friends/family/neighborhood).

ETA: I also create most of my sims/couples/families with a strong sense of who they are, but I do also sometimes just let my sims tell me who they are.

Sorak4 · July 2022

Yes

So happens to be that a majority of my original Sims are gay, or trans, for one reason or another, but a majority of my neighbourhoods CAS Sims just aren't.

I'd say "yes" only by the fact 90% of my custom created Sims are intentionally disallowed from romance since seeing the Sim celebrities I've had would feel wrong otherwise.

cyncie · July 2022

I primarily play characters and stories that are romance/woohoo light, and generally don’t play families. I’m ace, so I’m sure that’s a factor in my game choices, but I don’t set out to play ace characters. I have two main characters in game that are intentionally ace for story reasons, another is in a hetero relationship, and another is a player. A few others have families and partners because it’s appropriate to the story. The rest stay single or partner up however the game wants them to.

So, I would say that my being ace affects my play choices, but I’m not generally setting out to create representation in an all ace world.

Yautjagirl · July 2022

Yes

I try to aim for realistic balance between straight/LGBTQA+ sims, so I have a fair amount of bisexual & gay sims. I created 98% of my playable sims & townies and all of them have backstories and assigned sexuality (through mod for now, after the update I will update them in the new CAS UI) for kids who will age up to a teen after the update I will let them decide on their own through gameplay.

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