GamerGate? Da fuq is a GamerGate?

[Aldurin]

So I've been watching this fly back and forth on twitter for a while without fully being able to grasp what was actually happening. Then I found http://gamergate.giz.moe/ which I guess is the go-to site for supporters of that hashtag and I've been trying to figure out what's going on.

What I've been able to grasp of the timeline so far:
1. There was a kerfuffle over Kotaku's conflict of interest with Zoey Quinn, due to a writer's past relationship with her.
2. People call for transparency in games media in response, with some amount of this outcry putting excessive blame on Quinn (though I'm not clear about how much).
3. Gamers are dead/not actually dead/you're using the term gamer wrong, #GamerGate (which is calling out the scandal) and #NotYourShield (a hashtag used by minorites that are enraged on when game journalists use racism/sexism to shut down discussion) flood the discussion.
4. ??? After this point I can't keep track, between deleted discussions and seeing the "well then you're against us" rhetoric toward people who are trying to slow down and understand what's happening, I'm having trouble following what's actually fact and what big names are part of what side (confusion intensifying regarding the discussion about Anita Sarkeesian that seems to claim that she's siding with the journalists or trying to capitalize more fame off of the entire scandal, but hell if I know if that's even true).

So I have to ask, can NPF clarify what's going on? With both sides, hopefully, so I can parse the who-the-fuck/what-the-fuck/where-the-fuck of this whole situation.

EDIT: I should probably put up front that my disposition going into this is that most if not all gaming journalism sites have had varying degrees of undisclosed conflicting interests in their work, and that transparency is something that we desperately need to improve the industry as a whole, not just the journalism side.