Hi gingerDee. Really nice to hear from you. Thanks for your message. Thanks so much for the link, and the virtual hug, I appreciate it, and send one back :)
I'm sure that a lot of people feel the way we do about this game. ( as I've said elsewhere, game just does not seem an adequate word to describe it).
I, just a moment ago subscribed on the Patrion site to help fund the GB Patch developers. Our Life means so much to me, I felt it was the very least that I should do.
You said "It's just the kind of media and representation I wish existed when I was Cove's age and confused." I could not put it better myself. Had I understood myself better, then I might have possibly been more understanding of others too. I think that my biggest regrets are not understanding other people in the past. When I was in sixth form, I remember a guy telling me out of the blue that he is gay (this was the 70s, he could have been abused and become an outcast for saying that, but he told me), and I didn't have a clue what to say. I am filled with shame looking back on it, he put his trust in me, yet I had nothing for him, because I didn't understand. I spoke to no one else about it, but I never talked to him about it ever again either. How awful is that.
The one big thing that this game has changed in me is that I feel open about it all. If anyone asks me anything about my feelings then I will now tell them the honest truth without embarassment. Before, I was completely evasive, because I felt that I didn't really know what the truth was. It is a liberating feeling.
So thanks again for your message, I really do appreciate it :)