No Lesbians Allowed on XBOX Live. No Gays Either.

Via The Consumerist: "Teresa says that she was harassed by other players and later suspended from XBOX Live because she identified herself as a lesbian in her profile. When she appealed to Microsoft, she says they told her that other gamers found her sexual orientation ‘offensive.’"

From her e-mail to The Consumerist: "I was harassed by several players, ‘chased’ to different maps/games to get away from their harassment. They followed me into the games and told all the other players to turn me in because they didn’t want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap."

This has happened before to people who have "gay" in their user name. Here’s one of those stories.

Three cheers for gaming homophobes who can’t even let people play their games in peace if they dare to identify as something other than straight… and three cheers for microsoft who then suspended those offensive bad-example-to-our-children lesbian and gay folks … SIKE. *sigh*