(State Dept.)

一些电游爱好者将自己称为“电脑迷”，因为他们对电子游戏的热衷程度远远超过了那些普通的电游玩家。但电游文化对那些自称为“gaymers”的同性恋、双性恋、变性者和跨性别者（LGBTI）并非一直都是支持和包容的。[请参见变性者是人类多样性的体现以及“LGBTI”中的”I”指“intersex”（跨性别者）]

生长在佛蒙特州（Vermont）的马特·康恩（Matt Conn）说，作为一个同性恋电游者，他感到自己“是异类中的异类”，因为他在LGBTI群体和电游爱好者群体中都受到排斥。他利用Kickstarter众筹网站创办了GaymerX，这是一个专为LGBTI电游爱好者举办的年度集会活动。[请参见英文报道]

GaymerX自2012年以来每年举办一次。今年的活动定于12月11日到13日在加州圣何塞（San Jose）举行。这让LGBTI电游爱好者和开发者有机会看到还有数以千计的人同他们一样有着相同的爱好。

正如该活动的一位参与者所言：“通过和其他与我有着共同爱好的人联系沟通，我开始看到还有其他人和我一样。作为一名同性恋电游者，我认识到我并不孤单。”[请参见英文报道]

Some gamers describe themselves as “geeks” because their love of video games is much greater than that of their casual-gaming peers. But gamer culture hasn’t always been supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) gamers, who call themselves “gaymers.”

Vermont native Matt Conn said that, as a gay gamer, he was “an alien even to the aliens,” because he felt outcast from both the LGBTI and the gamer communities. Using the Kickstarter crowdfunding site, he created GaymerX, an annual convention for LGBTI gamers.

GaymerX has held conventions since 2012. The next one will be in San Jose, California, December 11–13. For LGBTI gamers and developers, it provides an opportunity to see that there are thousands more people like themselves who share their passion.

As one participant said, “In connecting with others who shared my interests, I began to see that there were guys just like me. Being a gaymer made me realize I was not alone.”