jeweledleah:

exactly (although with new ME3 save, its still possible to save and romance Kaidan). 

and you know what kills me though.

straight dude Shep gets 2 romances in ME1, 3 romances and 1 fling in ME2, and in ME3 at least 1 guaranteed to be alive romance (and one that is pretty much a default VS) and a fling.  plus all the imported romances can be rekindled.

gay dudeshep doesn’t get anything until ME3, but in ME3 – at least one romance is guaranteed to be alive in every game.

lesbian femshep gets 2 romance options in ME1, one fling in ME2 and 2 guaranteed to be alive romances and a fling in ME3, but lets face it – this is mostly for benefit of the male players who like to play female characters and think lesbians are hot, any hint of equality is pretty incidental

straight femshep gets 1 romance in ME1, 3 romances in ME2 and no guaranteed to be alive romances in ME3, and only ONE of her ME2 romances can be rekindled.  the other is killed off with barely any romance exclusive content and third one has been character assassinated and turned into a sleezebag cheater.

THIS is why I will NEVER praise EA and Bioware for their inclusiveness.  becasue its all smoke and mirrors.  it wasn’t done to be open minded, it was done becasue PR about no m/m relationships was getting to difficult to manage.  I will praise the individual writer who wrote Steve as a great character, I will praise Patrick Weeks who made sure that Steve didn’t get killed off by default.

but I will not praise Bioware or EA as a company. 

A lesbian femShep has one romance option in ME1 (unless one uses an edited file to romance Ashley). A bisexual femShep has two options in ME1.