This Saturday, EA, along with a variety of other members of the community, will be hosting a GLAAD panel to discuss perspectives of both gaming companies and LGBT gamers.

Some of the people joining in on the conversation include Microsoft ban hammer’s Stepto, Flynn De Marco of GayGamer.net and Dan Hewitt of the ECA.

Event details are as follows:

WHAT: Homophobia in Virtual Communities – Highlighting the Problem and Working Towards Sustainable Solutions

WHEN: Saturday, July 18th, 2009, 11am-1pm

WHERE: Electronic Arts, 250 Shoreline Drive Redwood City, CA 94065

The event is free of charge and open to the public. More information can be found at: http://www.glaad.org/digitalevent