Neeko is confirmed as gay!

I love this lizbian (lesbian lizard)

I just hope she's not lesbian for the sake of introducing a homosexual character into the game... There's a thin line between making a homosexual character and making a character homosexual. The first one is fine, the second one isn't.

If her writer frequents the boards, I just want to say that this lesbian approves of your lesbian [sg-ahri-2]

The sentence "Neeko does like female champions more than male champions. Neeko identifies as a lesbian." contradicts itself, kinda, even if she "identifies as lesbian", the words "more than" means that she likes males as well. So, she should be Bisexual, specially considering that she can be a male and a female.

As long as this won't become her whole personality, i'm fine with that.

AND NOW I NEED HER IMMEDIATELY, BRING ON THE NIDALEE AND NEEKO SHIP

Some offhand comments about girls being pretty, and asking Shyvana out to lunch. So cute and wholesome, I love her. [sg-lux] Also, I'm glad someone at Riot confirmed it, otherwise part of the community would be gaslighting people who read her as a lesbian. It's nice to have a character in league who's 100% canonically confirmed to be LGBTQ+ for once. I hope they keep up the pace and maybe we get an asexual Fiora, or even some trans representation. ^_^

So instead of making it an implicit part of her character

they use a twitter post

gutless cowards

When are they gonna make an asexual champion

EDIT: Monsters and robots don't count

As far as I am concerned, the sexuality of any League character shouldn't really matter unless it matters. Having a character "identify" as a given sexuality should only matter if their sexuality is inherent to their character, like Miss Fortune, Evelynn, or even Taric. Telling us "champion is lesbian" does nothing except make the champion divisive between conservative and progressive players when that champ's sexuality won't even be expressed in the game. Like, if you WANT her character interactions to HINT at it, fine. Dumbledore was never stated as being gay in Harry Potter because his sexuality had no effect or bearing on the story, but people could infer that maybe he was by small hints in his actions and personality, allowing people to interpret him how they want. And really, that's the best thing you can do for a character; write them in such a way that they can be interpreted differently by different people, allowing them to have some intrigue and holding interest to a wider audience because people will read into their behaviors differently based on their own tastes. And when a character has multiple interpretations, it makes them even more colorful and gives them a broader, more nuanced personality. Given that "color" was supposed to be the main theme of the new champ, I think just having a creator just blithely label her as "lesbian" is more of a disservice to both the character and her future players than a service.