Ike.

Hannah and Rain in Fear Effect 2 were gay......and oh, so sexy!!

and fable 2 as well

Here is how it can easily be done:

You make a game, with a badass male character. You make him the most badass guy in the universe. He's buff, he's smart, he's fast, he's got mad skills. Even throw in some girls who are all over him. But have him constantly refer to his "lover" instead of his "girlfriend" or "princess." That way everybody can identify with his quest, because we'll all assume the gender of the lover is the gender we're attracted to. Then at the end of the game, once you've beaten the final boss, BLAM, you just saved a dude. It worked for Samus. Everybody thought they were a badass male bounty hunter saving the galaxy and then BLAM, you're in a bikini for no reason. And by that point, you were so attached to the character, that Nintendo got away with it, and Samus has become one of the most beloved female protagonists in gaming. I think the same could be done for a gay protagonist.

EDIT: Now I read the thread, and crap, axumblade beat me to it.

I have no problems with homosexuals in real life, so why would I have any in a videogame ?

I don't remember wich character is gay in Deus Ex, could somebody remind me who it was ? thanks

That would be Awesome, there will be angry people, there will be happy, and i'm sure some will cry. lol

I just remember hearing it, but I think there are two lesbians in it.

It will never work to trick people like that

Samus got away with it b/c the majority of the crowd was horny straight males, they saw chic in bikini and would let it slid

If it were a gay dude…epic firestorm and the game would have sales dry up among the crowd you were targeting (however the gay gamer community would grab the game with open arms)

But the group your trying to trick into it would rebel on a massive scale

Plus with the available amount of info in the net these days something that epic would never stay secret

I have a question for you, what would you do if Cole (That's his name right form inFAMOUS) if his ex-girlfriend was his ex-boyfriend?

The gameplay would be the same the rest of the story line would be the same, but that little detail is different.

There are people who to this day see Brawl and go "Whoa, Samus was a chick all along?"

Nobody's done it before, so there's a vacuum to fill.  The first company to fill that vacuum with a game that isn't really stupid will get a whole bunch of money.  And the controversy would help sales like it was a Hot Coffee mod.

I'd play any game with a gay protagonist.  I want more diversity in my protagonists.  I want to play as more old people, women, gays, babies, and inanimate objects.