Today, we don’t have any claim in particular. Rather, I’m shedding light to a particular topic that was introduced but unfortunately glossed over in Gurney Halleck’s A People’s History of GamerGate. The topic, as you can tell, is about the Nathan’s Grayson’s relationships that… raise some eyebrows, to say the least. I felt like Halleck glossed over the depth of this issue a lot (particular in Part 1: Before GamerGate was GamerGate) and took the matter into my own hands to provide some supplement to his book. And to squash your guess right now: I’m not referring to Grayson’s relationship with Zoe Quinn. Halleck has already covered that in his book. I’m covering Grayson’s other relationships that did not receive some space in the book, but still relevant regardless.

The first relationship that raised eyebrows is with Toni Rocca — president of GaymerX, with whom Nathan Grayson had a plan to go out for some karaoke singing and drinking on May 24th 2014, with Zoe Quinn tagging along. Grayson’s comment in the screencap is here, but since Rocca has hidden her tweets, you won’t be able to see the full conversation. My lead was dead in the water at that step.

Nevertheless, this suggested that Grayson and Rocca are friends to a certain degree.

On July 25th 2014, Nathan wrote up a coverage of GaymerX 2 on Kotaku which is all good, but there’s a problem: where is the disclosure? The snapshot above was taken on October 15th 2014, meaning that at the point of writing, there has been no attempt to disclose the lack of professional distance between Nathan Grayson and the subject of his coverage. One would have thought a brief disclosure is a small price to pay for crossing the professional distance. And the GaymerX coverage wouldn’t look any worse with that disclosure, cause it seems like a cool, friendly convention by itself already.