Queer romance was removed from 2011's Mass Effect 2 to appease Fox News

Bioware's 2011 game Mass Effect 2 features Jack, a woman who hints at pansexual relationships but will only romance the player if they're playing a man. It's because they removed the option in fear of a conservative media backlash. [thegamer.com]

Here's the game's writer Brian Kindregan, interviewed by Cian Maher:

'Mass Effect had been pretty heavily and really unfairly criticized in the US by Fox News, which at the time… maybe more people in the world thought that there was a connection between reality and what gets discussed on Fox News,' Kindregan continues. — Read the rest