Back in February of this year, Teresa found herself banned from Xbox live for placing her sexual orientation in her XBL profile.  It wasn’t the last time that a female admitting to being a lesbian would be banned for this reason.

Recently a gamer named Holly vented her frustration on After Ellen about how a shared XBL account of her and her girlfriend had received a ban for identifying themselves as a lesbian in thier profile.  Their profile read, “lesbians from way back.”  Though the ban seems to have only been for 24 hours, Holly argues that it was not a part of her gamertag, nor was she flaunting it.

I don’t feel as if I was even flaunting it.  It was not in our gamer tag, it was in our bio and unless I am mistaken that is part of my bio!

While she has a very valid point as to it being who she is, it is against the Xbox live Code of Conduct to have the word in your profile, gamertag, etc. From what we’ve seen, Microsoft is pretty strict about upholding the Code of Conduct.

To put it this way, Microsoft didn’t ban her for being a lesbian, but the ban was because she had the word lesbian in her profile.  Sadly there are no exceptions, if she can do it, what’s to stop someone from having “lesbian hater” in their profile.  While one is harmless, the other is harmful and Microsoft doesn’t allow either one to stop negative use of it.

It might be a bass ackwards way of doing things, but it’s how things are done.  

Suspended from XBox Live for being a lesbian! [After Ellen]