Gayer Gamer banned from XBL

There have been a handful of blogs here recently about gay marriage and same-sex couples. But what about simply labeling oneself as gay - is that really offensive? According to the Xbox Live community, yes it is.

The Consumerist printed this letter from Grant, no longer theGAYERgamer:

Consumerist,

I have had a bad morning. Last night when i tried to sign into my xbox live account "thegayergamer" I was told that it had to be changed. I figured that it was just from people reporting it as an offensive name being that the greater Xbox live community isn't exactly welcome to gay people, i spend a lot of time muting people on Halo3. I assumed that once i called Microsoft they would straighten things out.

I talked to a supervisor there, Roxy, who told me that she didn't personally find the fact that my gamer tag had gay in the name offensive, but that the greater Xbox community did, so i would have to change it. I hope I'm not the only person who finds this don't ask, don't tell policy disgusting... eek

From Grant, thegayergamer

I'm going to steer clear of the "biology vs. choice" argument because I honestly don't know and don't care. If somebody is gay, they're gay. But if you've ever sat through a Halo session with Timmies (which I assume is why we're all here on this site) you've heard "gay," "faggot," "homo," "queer," or some other colorful or expletive laced derivitive involving one's rectum. And it's that same community who determined that a gayer gamer is "offensive."