About Rough Trade Gaming Community
We welcome all 18+ Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Straight friends and allies. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive community within virtual worlds (and IRL) based on respect and a love of all things nerdy.
The Rough Trade Gaming Community is the umbrella collection of LGBTQIA+ guilds that spans a wide range of MMORPG games including: World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Guild Wars 2, and Elder Scrolls Online. It is a welcoming and positive community with an open-minded philosophy towards gaming and life.
The idea for RTGC began in 2003 with the game, Dark Age of Camelot, with a small group of freaks and geeks that included “Bigheadben” who joined together in the chaos and fantasy that is playing an MMORPG.
In 2004 within City of Heroes in 2004, with his off-color, leather wearing, LGBT heroes-for-rent, Ben created the superhero team, Rough Trade.
With the release of World of Warcraft, these players needed to make their mark in a new universe. The very first Taint guild was born on the Horde side of the Proudmoore server. It began as a small fledgling guild but has grown to become one of the largest guilds in all of WoW, and the largest LGBTQ+ guild. We continue to grow into other MMOs. MagiTaint Mayhem on the Gilgamesh server has also become the largest LGBTQ+ guild in Final Fantasy XIV.