GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has given a special recognition award to Dragon Age: Inquisition. The 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which has a laundry list of award categories, including comics, singled out the BioWare RPG from the video game pack.
David Gaider, lead writer for the Dragon Age series at BioWare has spoken in the past about the “hump of assumptions” involved in creating and including lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters in video games. Inquisition featured the first “fully gay” characters in the series. Straight and bisexual characters have been a BioWare standard for over a decade.
Bioware parent company, Electronic Arts, has also repeated received a 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. The publisher earned the achievement again in 2015.
