Am gay. Don't care. When I got into DA:I and went in knowing who the gay options were I was, well, disappointed. Dorian seemed a little too dapper and in some ways the 'gay gentleman' trope and IB just made me roll my eyes. Until I played the darn game and found Dorian to be a pretty awesome character despite his surface level construction. Really, it wouldn't matter. It makes no difference either way.
Now what I DO have a problem with is how Kotaku and Polygon report on LGBT characters in upcoming games. I can just see the headlines of "We finally have a gay Garrus! Sing Bioware your praises!" which make me groan and bristle. There have been MANY LGBT characters in games for EONS, no one made a big fuss about it. It's great to see more of them sure and not have to speculate on coded gay characters like Sephiroth and trans or gender queer characters like Kuja, but I have issue with these 'game news' people acting like we only now have LGBT characters and we only now have female protags. No, we just have a wider medium to discuss games now.
If anyone actually cares about sexuality in games, go look up gaygamer. I've helped write a thing or two so I may be biased, but overall, the flavour of queerness there is much less "YAY GAY CHARACTERS! LOOK AT HOW PROGRESSIVE GAMES ARE! TAKE THAT GAMERGATE!" and more "Woah, more hot dudes and dudettes who happen to be queer with complicated and interesting stories. Nice!". My biggest issue with releasing sexuality before the game is released is because I know how the reporting will go down and for the people who don't care/are on the fence about queer issues, it may turn them off rather than play a game that will make them more open minded. In fact, it might even bring out the anti-queer in them. Heck, if a gay person can get put off at the way Kotaku and Polygon word, structure and celebrate queer characters, imagine someone who doesn't care. While I understand they are trying to appeal to a minority audience, it feels almost click-baity and like it's capitalising on queer issues. It really detracts from what is important in a game when these 'journalists' turn queer issues into a PC movement.
A good example is David Gaider saying in an interview with Polygon that Dorian is a guy who happens to be gay, but he's also a million other things which are just as important if not moreso and the unfortunate thing is is that despite that, Dorian will only be seen as just a gay character because he's gay even though a straight character won't be seen as just a straight character. So Polygon spend the entire article talking about Dorian's queerness and how queer characters are hard to write because they are queer completely missing what Gaider, a gay man, is actually saying.
TL;DR, No might be the best option because game news media doesn't know what it's talking about when it comes to queer characters.
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