The flaw with that is the Live ToS doesn't say anywhere that you cannot refer to your own sexuality in a clean fashion, and "Lesbian" is not an illegal term. And MS' action here is in fact contradictory to their own ToS. They ask people who play online not to discriminate or display bigotry against anyone for any reason, then they themselves ban someone from using a paying service for being outed as a homosexual. Isn't that like 7 kinds of illegal?

Keeping in mind the Tos also says you cannot refer in any part of your Tag/profile to ANY illegal activity. I must have missed the memo about killing not being illegal anymore judging by the amount of tags with some kind of reference to it. Fact is, they aren't covering their own backs, quite the opposite, discriminating openly against a minority and pandering to small minded bigots AND failing to employ equal standards across the board. I've lost count of the amount of times I've heard "faggot" and "nigger" online, yet people aren't being banned for it everywhere, are they? Because they'd end up losing vast sums of money losing most of their player base.

Who are you to say that lesbian is an offencive term? as long as she dosent describe the action i dont see what ur problem with it is

Sexuality is NOT a sexual topic, unless you assume that being homosexual makes you a pervert and being heterosexual makes you not a pervert, in which case you are a bigot. Stating that you are a lesbian doesn't mean that you are dying to find some hot kinky lesbian sex. It means that you are emotionally/romantically attracted to women and not emotionally/romantically attracted to men. For all we know, that one single random lesbian can be a virgin and waiting to get married, but still thinks that identifying as a lesbian is an important part of her life.

MicroSoft will ban you for mentioning certain sexualities, but allows names like StripClubDJ.

I am an American who has every right to see offense in the term.  Who are you to deny me this right?  Call me a bigot, but if the world was ready to accept gay/lesbians in their entirety, why all the laws against gay marriage?  Why is the major religions of the world against it?  Obviously to anyone of those religions it is offensive.  Should Microsoft say that you cannot be a Christian on the service and force you to accept all sexual orientations?

Oh and YES sexuality is a sexual topic....  I'm not assuming anything about anyone being a pervert.  I'm pretty sure everyone with half a brain can make that connection.

Microsoft does not allow those names, which is why users have the ability to report them and force them to be changed.

Just looking at the XBox Live user database and found a user named "Homicide".

QUICK! BAN HIM!

*Create a Gamertag , avatar or use text in other profile fields that may offend other members.

So to get someone banned

I just have to be offended?

Fantastic.

He will only get banned if it was Homocide.

Or maybe not, since EM DOLLARSIGN HATES TEH GAYZ AND WOOD LIEK TO KILL THEM!

You don't have to hate gays to be Christian. I have no idea what you're talking about. There are gay priests, gay churches, gay weddings, and whoa, now get this, there are even some churches where they let homos and heteros sit next to each other and pray together and be friends the way Jesus would have wanted! Isn't that fucking sick?

Just for your interest. As an American you should know that "all men are created equal". Just because some stubborn people think homosexuality shouldn't be accepted doesn't mean you should agree with their opinion, really.

And there is a difference between being homosexual and not accepting that another person is homosexual: Being homosexual doesn't do anybody any harm. Your existence can't be punished right? I'm an atheist, does that mean I can demand christians getting banned on Xbox Live? I mean... maybe I don't like their opinion?

Uh oh! I found Genocide!

BAN HIM TOO!

I AM OFFENDED DAMN IT!