Sims 4 gay sims
The Sims 4 has had a number of alternative things taken away from it that previous games had – some of which, like the inclusion of toddlers, have been added back, but some are still missing. However, does The Sims 4 take away the option of allowing you to be gay?
The answer is, simply, no. The Sims has included same-sex relationships (with varying openness) since the very first game, and has only change into better at including people – no matter who they identify as. While The Sims 4 may lack in plenty of things, it’s hard to deny that it lacks in inclusivity. In reality, only a few days ago did Maxis append 100+ hairstyles, make-up and skin-tones suited for BAME groups.
In previous Sims games, same-sex relationships wouldn’t be able to receive ‘married’ and only earn a civil partnership. Thankfully that changed with The Sims 2, and The Sims 4 is not any different. Players are able to get married to their partners and, unless you download mods, there are no negative outcomes or changes from other Sims because of your sexuality. While that may be ‘unrealistic’ for some, for others it’s a nice change of pace from real being.
Lately, I’ve been really enamoured by The Sims 4. It’s far from entity as complete as The Sims 2 and even The Sims 3, but there’s still a lot to love about it – especially with the modding community as active as it is. One thing that I didn’t even realize is that the series, but especially The Sims 4, has LGBTQIA Sims that you can meet and interact with as you proceed around town!
I, for one, thought that the Sims you met throughout town were only attracted to the opposite sex. So, you can envision my surprise when I first met Brant and Brent Hecking and saw them Woohoo in a bush. At first I thought it was mods because I had indeed added an Attraction meter mod, but nope. Brant and Brent are Hecking gay! That’s awesome!
So down the rabbit hole I went, researching everything I needed to know about the LGBTQIA characters that I could find in The Sims 4. And I’ll be honest, I was shocked at just how many I establish.
Brant and Brent Hecking
While I could have included these two lovebirds separately, who am I to break up this loving – and not to mention adorable – couple?
Brant and Brent were the first male lgbtq+ coup
LGBTQ Characters in The Sims
Some pre-made characters in The Sims series are gay, lesbian, or bisexual person, although those orientations are rarely implied beyond the mechanics of their gender preference and are largely up to players to interpret as they will.
In The Sims 2, Circe Beaker, Ariel Capp, and Titania Summerdream have the same level of attraction for males and females, so their characters initiate out with bisexual preferences. Other characters with bi preferences are Kent Capp who has a slight preference for males (still neutral for females) and Jason Cleveland (in The Sims 2: Apartment Life) who is married to Marissa Cleveland but also has a slight favor for males with neutral preference for females. Additionally, Nervous Subject has a slight disaste for females, so this could be interpreted as having homosexual preferences initially.
In The Sims 2: University Life, Mitch Indie and Max Flexor (both playable characters), are college roommates whose bios demonstrate they are ready to discover new things about their friendship now that they are living together.
In The Urbz: Sims in the City, Kiki Bluff is intertextually implied to be a lesbian, as the
The Sims Knew I Was Queer Before I Did
WORDS Megan Elliott
Before coming out a year ago aged 25, I appeared very straight to the outside world. I had been in a long-term partnership with a man and had exclusively dated boys at school. But behind closed doors, my teenage self was playing out my queerness on The Sims, long before I would admit it to myself.
The Sims was my escape from reality, a place where I could forget about my anxieties and immerse myself in a fantasy world. I started out playing SimCity with my dad as a kid, developing thriving towns and managing instinctive disasters. By the period I was a teen, I had graduated to The Sims 2, which is where I first started experimenting with homosexual couples.
In the Create-a-Sim stage of the game, I never made lesbian couples. Instead, I often made two ‘straight’ couples in one household and embarked on secret lesbian affairs during gameplay. When the women got together, I often got bored with the men and moved them out into a separate household so I could focus on the women. Chatting to my therapist about why I never made a queer woman couple from the outset, I concluded that this reflected my previously held ideas that
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