{"id":74316,"date":"2019-01-09T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/334054"},"modified":"2019-01-09T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:50:00","slug":"berlin-museum-opens-exhibition-exploring-the-queer-history-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/berlin-museum-opens-exhibition-exploring-the-queer-history-of-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin museum opens exhibition exploring the queer history of games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibition exploring the queer history of video games from 1985 to 2018 has opened at the Schwules Museum in Berlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christened &#8216;Rainbow Arcade,&#8217; the major exhibition will encompass over 30 years of media history, and will spotlight playable titles, concept art, fan-made mods, and documents from notable online communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will also feature research from the LGBTQ Game Archive, and will attempt to dig into questions surrounding representation, cultural memory, and stereotypical and discriminatory narratives in entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rainbow Arcade asks not only how social discourses and developments have been reflected in video games, but also if there has been any major progress in regards of LGBTIQ+ representation in entertainment media,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwulesmuseum.de\/presseaktuell\/pressemitteilung-rainbow-arcade-queere-videospielgeschichte-1985-2018\/\">explains a press release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, the exhibition explores issues regarding our digital memory and the unique challenges posed by digital culture to archives and institutions and the archival absence of contemporary queer media history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow Arcade will run until May 13, with some guided tours being provided in English (for those of you worried about a language barrier). You can find out more about the exhibition over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwulesmuseum.de\/ausstellung\/rainbow-arcade-a-queer-history-of-video-games-1985-2018\/?lang=en\">Schwules website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibition exploring the queer history of video games from 1985 to 2018 has opened at the Schwules Museum in Berlin.\u00a0 Christened &#8216;Rainbow Arcade,&#8217; the major exhibition will encompass over 30 years of media history, and will spotlight playable titles, concept art, fan-made mods, and documents from notable online communities.\u00a0 It will also feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}