I typically avoid games with cliched races that appear to be less races than organisms of a different genus and species altogether (like cat-people and bird-people and lizard-people). Always strikes me as odd that people don't treat relationships between "Catfolk and Humans" as bestiality more than interracial relationships.
As for same-sex relationships in MUDs, I've noticed as both a player and a former-administrator that the primary example seems to be lesbianism. Most of the time, it's a female character played by a male player and less of an attempt at a character who happens to be a lesbian than it is a raging-hormone-boy intent on MUDsexing.
As far as actually RPing a same-sex relationship, different people have different ideas about it. If someone's going to try such a character, they ought to do a bit of research rather than play the character based on stereotypes. That advice of course goes for any role.
Take care,
Jason
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