Gay Prom Hosted on 'City of Heroes'
200 Users Log in to the Online Game for Gay Prom
Festivities included cavorting in the outdoors (while only wearing underwear) and the crowning of a prom king and drag queen.
'City of Heroes' is a massively multiplayer online space -- or MMO -- that encourages users to create superhero personalities. The LGBT group is just an offshoot of many different camps.
The party room -- a gleaming purplish dance floor with glowing pink walls -- was envisioned, according to gay.com, by 'Heroes' member DJ blue, who created the Rainbow Prom after joining the Rainbow Alpha Force Super-group.
The event became so popular that the partygoers crashed a 'Heroes' server. But NCsoft, the developer behind 'Heroes', rebooted the server several times.
According to gay.com, online gay gamers can now marry on "The Sims" and other massively multiplayer online environments -- or MMOs. The Rainbow Prom is further evidence, the site says, that gay profiles are increasingly accepted in cyberspace.
DJ blu, gay.com says, floated the idea to Jill Henderson, the community relations coordinator for 'Heroes'. Henderson assisted announcing the prom, taking care of technical duties and other logistics.
The prom provokes little controversy, gay.com said, and any hecklers where asked to leave the virtual environment.
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