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Remembering Rebecca Heineman, video game pioneer and LGBTQ rights advocate

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By Ayesha Rascoe

Published November 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM EST

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe looks back at the life of video game and LGBTQ pioneer Rebecca Heineman.

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Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

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