Quote Originally Posted by Gothicshark View Post
Also, the style and themes of the game are very LGBTQ+, so it's kind of hard not to think that the production staff has influential LGBTQ+ members leading the designs for gear and zones.
I'm not sure I'm seeing the same thing you're seeing. Other than the examples mentioned by the poster above you in this thread, there isn't much else going on other than prostitutes or flirty background NPCs trying to sleep with your character regardless of your gender and there's a lot more examples of aggressively hetero interactions between NPCs. Unfortunately, the country the game is made in is not very progressive and doesn't allow same-sex marriage. We didn't even get in-game same-sex marriage when eternal bonding was first released and we had to constantly ask for that along with gender-unlocked outfits. The director of the game has even said that male viera make him uncomfortable.

They've included some better examples of same-sex romance that don't use tired, negative tropes than I would have expected. But considering past comments from the director and the design team on other things, I don't think the examples you used were explicitly designed to be that way and you might be seeing more into things than what's really there.