Microsoft celebrates Pride by donating to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits and welcoming everybody to make Pride with open-source marketing campaign

This yr we’re celebrating the 30^th anniversary of the Global LGBTQIA+ Employees and Allies at Microsoft (GLEAM) worker useful resource group that could be a driving power for LGBTQIA+ inclusion and Pride at Microsoft world wide.

At a time when LGBTQIA+, transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive communities want help, Microsoft invitations everybody to maintain and make extra Pride by sharing tales, open-sourcing the whole Pride marketing campaign design, contributing to LGBTQIA+ organizations, and creating a large product launch.

Our efforts to help and advocate for LGBTQIA+ individuals don’t begin or finish at Pride. By supporting our workers by international advocacy, charitable giving and higher office practices, we hope to make a distinction for LGBTQIA+ communities and past, as our drive for constructive international impression continues.

Discover every part Pride at unlocked.micosoft.com/pride.

Making Pride open-source

At a time when Pride is getting tougher to prepare and rejoice, we’re empowering organizers world wide by open-sourcing the whole Pride marketing campaign design and welcoming everybody to remix, share and make extra Pride. We’re releasing marketing campaign property at the moment on GitHub and including ready-made templates to Clipchamp.

Last yr, we open-sourced our  Pride flag design representing 40 LGBTQIA+ identities. Our flag replace launched at the moment displays nearly 50 identities, expands illustration of Asexual, Aromantic and Trans identities, and is offered in new designs and sizes.

Our Pride expression displays on the open, inviting, grass-roots nature of Pride. Brush strokes, brilliant colours and quite a lot of flag mixtures rejoice a group that’s vast, international, and ever-growing.

This is Pride

Our Pride facilities on easy truths in regards to the LGBTQIA+ expertise shared by workers world wide. Hugging your liked one is Pride. Openly serving your nation is Pride. Mutual respect is Pride. And far more. By sharing their tales, LGBTQIA+ individuals at Microsoft hope to ask everybody to make extra Pride.

Year-around, we acknowledge the various methods this various group continues to contribute and affect innovation at Microsoft and past. Join us in celebrating with highly effective worker tales of energy, group, and management by visiting Inclusion Is Innovation.

More LGBTQIA+ storytelling and illustration on Xbox

Last yr, we made a press release of LGBTQIA+ visibility by releasing the Xbox Pride controller. This beloved and viral design is offered year-round on Xbox Design Lab.

This yr, we’re taking it a step additional. Xbox Game Studios Publishing is saying a long-term partnership with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

(GLAAD) to extend LGBTQIA+ illustration and storytelling in Xbox video games. Through this partnership, we’re hoping to deliver extra LGBTQIA+ tales, characters and lived experiences to Xbox in methods that can resonate with players world wide.

During June and past, Xbox is that includes quite a lot of sport collections that showcase LGBTQIA+ creators, lead characters and video games with inclusive gender and relationship choices. These collections will exist year-round as a part of our ongoing work to create extra inclusive gaming ecosystems and elevate content material that resonates with communities.

These are simply among the many celebrations on Xbox. Discover extra on Xbox Wire.

Make Pride with us – tune in to our stay occasion on June 16 at 10 a.m. PDT

This yr, LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft invite everybody to affix our stay “Make Pride” occasion on YouTube to be taught in regards to the state of LGBTQIA+ rights from organizers, gamers, and advocates from LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft and past. Discover how we will bridge borders and convey about collective change for all.

We hope you possibly can be part of us on June 16 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PDT to observe the livestream at aka.ms/talkpride 

Our Pride assortment

Since the introduction of our first Pride merchandise in 2018, they’ve been a visual celebration of the intersectionality and energy of the LGBTQIA+ communities.

• Microsoft Unlocked – Discover all issues Pride at Microsoft.
• Xbox – Explore nonprofit partnerships, group tales, in-game content material, and extra – all created by and with LGBTQIA+ communities.
• Xbox Gear – Wear your Pride with limited-edition T-shirts, totes and extra.
• Xbox video games – Celebrate Pride with LGBTQIA+ creators on Xbox.
• Xbox Design Lab Pride controller – Customize the Xbox Wireless Controller with Xbox Design Lab and present your Pride with the brand new daring design. Available year-round in all Xbox Design Lab markets.
• Microsoft Store – Explore collections of video games and films curated by the LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft.
• Windows – Bring your Pride to your Windows with new wallpapers celebrating Pride and plenty of LGBTQIA+ communities.
• Microsoft 365 – Turn in your Pride in choose Microsoft 365 apps* and rejoice with a particular theme impressed by the flags of the LGBTQIA+ communities.
• Microsoft Teams – Show the place you stand with over 50 digital backgrounds representing completely different LGBTQIA+ flags.
• Outlook cellular – Embrace your Pride year-round in Outlook cellular on iOS and Android with everlasting themes impressed by the Pride, Trans, Lesbian, Bisexual and Nonbinary flags.
• Microsoft Rewards – Join Microsoft Rewards to help OutRight International by merely looking out on Microsoft Bing.
• Bing – Explore the tales of people that’ve contributed to the continuing progress for LGBTQIA+ equality.
• Microsoft Life – Explore the tales of our workers from world wide.
• Inclusion is Innovation – Explore LGBTQIA+ tales year-round.
• Clipchamp – Unleash your creativity on Clipchamp with Pride templates, filters, stickers and extra.
• Microsoft Create – Choose from dozens of simply customizable templates with Microsoft Create.
• Microsoft Designer – Create distinctive Pride designs and get urged textual content to match, powered by AI.

Acting on the message – donating $200,000 to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits

We’re persevering with our long-standing help of LGBTQIA+ organizations. To acknowledge the launch of our 2023 Pride marketing campaign and merchandise, we’re contributing a complete of $200,000 to Outright International, Stonewall, SAATHII, Casa Rara and GLAAD to assist within the struggle for LGBTQIA+ fairness and equality. That’s along with the $1.4 million we’ve donated along with our workers since final yr, and over $30 million we’ve donated within the final 30 years.