In following with the kerfuffle following GayGamer's posting of the Top Twenty Gayest Game Characters, I bring you the rebuttal from a blogger that has a problem "with people unnecessarily labeling fictious characters as gay".

LJ user Count_Zeroor, pictured at right falling feet-first out of a portal into a White Stripes concert while evacuating a monster-fur bezoar, maintains that even though the King of the Cosmos wears a skintight unitard, has fancy facial hair, impeccable makeup, and sneezes rainbows, he's just not gay.

Same goes for Bloody Roar's Fox, who, if the Count remembers correctly, is female.

And Tingle? No, he's definitely not gay...you see, Nintendo is a family-centric company, and would never expose children to that sort of sexuality. Tingle is just "silly".

The count admits that a few on the list might be gay, maybe.

There are some characters on there that are actually homosexual. For instance, #12, Vamp from Metal Gear Solid II, does kind of work, if only because vampires do have a fair amount of eroticism attached to them. The drinking of blood and the biting of the neck has been described by not just literary critics, but by literary scholars as a [sic] erotic act, and in Bram Stoaker's Dracula (not just the film, but the novel as well), Dracula's bite causes his victim to experience a feeling of ecastacy [sic].

Not just critics, but scholars as well (literary ones), agree that vampires are gay because it's erotic when they bite you. Which I agree with, as just last night I had to ask Florian which compartment of my makeup case was appropriate for the storage of my fangs. He maintained that they should be stored with toothbrushes, et al. Eliza Gauger