“A Place Where I Could Breathe Easily”: LGBTQ + Youth on Gaming Worlds as Digital Shelters
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
Published online on February 09, 2026
Abstract
Games and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates how LGBTQ + youth cultivate enduring relationships through the cross-platform ecologies surrounding digital games, arguing that these environments function as affective infrastructures of dwelling. Drawing on qualitative ...
This article investigates how LGBTQ + youth cultivate enduring relationships through the cross-platform ecologies surrounding digital games, arguing that these environments function as affective infrastructures of dwelling. Drawing on qualitative ...