Still no Rainbow/Pride transmog options?

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

@Talonel-frostmourne

You sound deranged!

[Indaria-wyrmrest-accord]

LGBTQ representation in Wow

LGBTQ+ characters

Developer statements

In the open Q&A at BlizzCon 2011, one of the questions was: “There really hasn’t been a large representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters in the World of Warcraft lore. Are there any chances to change that in the future?” Chris Metzen’s reply was “We have I don’t know how many quest designers. Probably seven? So there’s a lot of people that plug away on story for this thing and certainly, like, our CDev’s department’s always chasing fiction and hooking characters and stuff like that, and we totally appreciate every component of our audience and want the game to kind of sing to everybody, so… Off the top of my head, I don’t know if we’re currently developing gay or lesbian characters but it’s certainly a possibility. As long as the story’s compelling… I think everything’s gravy as long as it’s just a really good character, well-rounded character that people really respond to, so I think it’s totally an open possibility.”[23]

In a July 2020 interview with Eurogamer, while discussing the Shadowlands character Pelagos (see below), executive producer John Hight stated that “WoW is a game that doesn’t try to emphasise sexual relationships so in that regard, we don’t necessarily tell that part of the story other than to hint around it. But we certainly have characters [that have] - or we’ve always thought of characters as having - different gender identities in the game. We don’t try to put a big focus on it and make it a big deal, we just try to make the game feel comfortable, friendly and approachable for everybody in the game, regardless of where they come from.” When asked if this meant that there are transgender characters in content predating Shadowlands, Hight replied, “Knowing some of our designers and having conversations with them, I’m sure that was the intent. But we like to keep things subtle.”[24]

In an interview with Wowhead around the same time, lead narrative designer Steve Danuser stated that “I think it’s a valuable thing that we show these different perspectives [on gender and sexuality] on Azeroth and want to really make clear that, you know, there’s people who sometimes say, “Well, Warcraft is this medieval fantasy game and those kinds of things weren’t talked about in medieval times, so they shouldn’t be in Azeroth,” but I disagree with that. I think that Azeroth is a world of magic and a world of possibilities, and one of the things that’s really important to know is that, in Azeroth, you can love who you want, you can identify yourself the way that you want, and all of those things are possibilities. We just want the game to be able to reflect that through its storylines, and through its character customization options, and we’re really excited about that.”[25]

World of Warcraft

• Gender has little or no effect on interactions with most NPCs. For example, NPCs who react to emotes such as /kiss and /flirt will react the same no matter the player character’s gender, and the [Seduction] ability is equally effective on male and female targets.
• Skyguard Khatie in the Blade’s Edge Mountains shows a clear interest in the player character once they’ve reached honored or higher with the Sha’tari Skyguard,[26] regardless of the character’s gender.
• During the Feast of Winter Veil, inns generally have pairs of Winter Revelers standing under the mistletoe. While most inns have a male reveler and a female reveler, the Silvermoon City Inn has two male revelers.
• Sentinel Sweetspring in Dragonblight sometimes “grins at Sentinel Amberline across the camp, waggling her long eyebrows suggestively.”
• Isabel Jones and Marith Lazuria—both women—appear to be in competition to impress a trade ship captain named Lila, whom they describe as having lovely hair and a beautiful eye.[27]
• Elementalist Starion in Thousand Needles compliments the player character’s looks regardless of gender, calling male characters “handsome” and female characters “gorgeous.”[28]
• Bilgewater Prisoners in the Twilight Highlands, who can spawn as male or female, may say: “Hey bud, I’ll sell you my wife if you get me out of here. She won’t mind!”
• In his retelling of the day Deathwing came to the Badlands, Martek the Exiled is shown surrounded by three female admirers and a male admirer, collectively referred to as “hot babes.” Martek rescues one of the admirers and they later share a “tender moment” on his motorcycle, regardless of which admirer the player chose.[29]
• In the romance novel [A Steamy Romance Novel: Hot and Misty], it’s implied that Kama the Beast Tamer’s life-mate is another woman.
• Marsha Stockton and Ann Stockton—a human and a dwarf respectively—can be found speaking to each other in southwest wing of the Shrine of Seven Stars. Though their relationship is unknown, their shared last name could suggest that they’re a married couple.
• [A Steamy Romance Novel: Savage Passions] is about Marcus the paladin’s romance with a male stablehand named Raven.
• Darktide Engineers in the alternate Shadowmoon Valley, who can spawn as male or female, may say: “Tell my wife I… ah, forget it.”
• Heather and Rhonda on the Wandering Isle are seen flirting. They are based on a real-life lesbian couple.[30][31]
• In a small enchanting questline in Azsuna, the player reunites two former lovers, Priestess Driana and Enchantress Ilanya.[32]
• In the quest [110] Fevered Note, a Bradensbrook Explorer in Val’sharah fell ill after kissing a harpy. The explorer could spawn as male or female.
• The ending of [A Steamy Romance Novel: Got Milk?] implies a threesome between Marcus, Bax Freeseeker, and Tanda Freeseeker. In-game, Marcus can be seen lying next to the two in a hut near Thunder Totem. When approached, he wakes up and walks out of the hut with the words, “Well, that was certainly unexpected.”
• After Dark Ranger Velonara in the Trueshot Lodge rejects Death Hunter Moorgoth’s advances, Moorgoth incorrectly concludes that this is because Velonara is actually attracted to the player character, regardless of the character’s gender.
• Levia Laurence fell under the seduction spell of Agatha, an imp mother she had thought was a succubus. Alongside her shock at Agatha’s true form, Levia seems genuinely hurt to find out she had been deceived and that Agatha didn’t really care for her. One quest even describes them as lovers.
• One of the /silly emotes for female nightborne characters reflects an interest in women: “Tyrande still looks good after all these years. Know if she’s seeing anyone?”
• Stabby Jane owns and cherishes a locket containing a hand-drawn picture of two women. One of them, who’s described in a way that matches Jane’s appearance, has her arm around the other.[33] The nature of the women’s relationship is never stated, but they may have been a couple.
• Upon finding out that her male lover is lost at sea, Flora Silverwind expresses an interest in pursuing Kirsty Logan.[34]
• During the quest [50] Stay of Execution, Jaina Proudmoore, Mathias Shaw, and the Alliance player teleport into the Underhold of Orgrimmar. They find themselves standing on top of a romantic picnic setup, and can hear two female goblins approaching and exchanging tender words. Jaina freezes the goblins as soon as they notice the Alliance intruders.
• The kyrian Pelagos presented as a woman in his mortal life but chose to be a man in the Shadowlands.[35]
• The burdens of Acolyte Galistos includes a memory of two tauren caring for an infant. The burdens’ models are randomized, meaning the tauren can spawn as either one male and one female, two males, or two females.[36]
• The venthyr outcasts Kasimir and Mircero in the Ember Ward are likely a male couple, as Kasimir refers to Mirceo as “my love.”
• Thiernax and Qadarin, both men, are married.
• Acolyte Nelesis is said to be Margrave Sin’dane’s “favorite consort”;[37] both Nelesis and Sin’dane are female.