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

This yr we’re celebrating the 30^th anniversary of the World LGBTQIA+ Staff and Allies at Microsoft (GLEAM) worker useful resource group that may be a driving power for LGBTQIA+ inclusion and Pleasure at Microsoft around the globe.

At a time when LGBTQIA+, transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive communities want help, Microsoft invitations everybody to maintain and make extra Pleasure by sharing tales, open-sourcing the whole Pleasure 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 Pleasure. By supporting our workers by way of international advocacy, charitable giving and higher office practices, we hope to make a distinction for LGBTQIA+ communities and past, as our drive for optimistic international influence continues.

Uncover every little thing Pleasure at unlocked.microsoft.com/pleasure.

Making Pleasure open-source

At a time when Pleasure is getting more durable to arrange and have fun, we’re empowering organizers around the globe by open-sourcing the whole Pleasure marketing campaign design and alluring everybody to remix, share and make extra Pleasure. We’re releasing marketing campaign belongings right this moment on GitHub and including ready-made templates to Clipchamp.

Final yr, we open-sourced our  Pleasure flag design representing 40 LGBTQIA+ identities. Our flag replace launched right this moment displays virtually 50 identities, expands illustration of Asexual, Aromantic and Trans identities, and is obtainable in new designs and sizes.

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

That is Pleasure

Our Pleasure facilities on easy truths concerning the LGBTQIA+ expertise shared by workers around the globe. Hugging your liked one is Pleasure. Overtly serving your nation is Pleasure. Mutual respect is Pleasure. And way more. By sharing their tales, LGBTQIA+ individuals at Microsoft hope to ask everybody to make extra Pleasure.

12 months-around, we acknowledge the various methods this numerous group continues to contribute and affect innovation at Microsoft and past. Be a part of us in celebrating with highly effective worker tales of power, group, and management by visiting Inclusion Is Innovation.

Extra LGBTQIA+ storytelling and illustration on Xbox

Final yr, we made an announcement of LGBTQIA+ visibility by releasing the Xbox Pleasure controller. This beloved and viral design is obtainable year-round on Xbox Design Lab.

This yr, we’re taking it a step additional. Xbox Sport Studios Publishing is asserting a long-term partnership with the Homosexual and Lesbian Alliance Towards Defamation

(GLAAD) to extend LGBTQIA+ illustration and storytelling in Xbox video games. By way of this partnership, we’re hoping to convey extra LGBTQIA+ tales, characters and lived experiences to Xbox in methods that may resonate with avid gamers around the globe.

Throughout June and past, Xbox is that includes quite a lot of recreation 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 a number of the many celebrations on Xbox. Uncover extra on Xbox Wire.

Make Pleasure 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 Pleasure” occasion on YouTube to study concerning the state of LGBTQIA+ rights from organizers, gamers, and advocates from LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft and past. Uncover how we are able to 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 look at the livestream at aka.ms/talkpride 

Our Pleasure assortment

Because the introduction of our first Pleasure merchandise in 2018, they’ve been a visual celebration of the intersectionality and power of the LGBTQIA+ communities.

• Microsoft Unlocked – Uncover all issues Pleasure at Microsoft.
• Xbox – Discover nonprofit partnerships, group tales, in-game content material, and extra – all created by and with LGBTQIA+ communities.
• Xbox Gear – Put on your Pleasure with limited-edition T-shirts, totes and extra.
• Xbox video games – Have fun Pleasure with LGBTQIA+ creators on Xbox.
• Xbox Design Lab Pleasure controller – Customise the Xbox Wi-fi Controller with Xbox Design Lab and present your Pleasure with the brand new daring design. Obtainable year-round in all Xbox Design Lab markets.
• Microsoft Retailer – Discover collections of video games and films curated by the LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft.
• Home windows – Deliver your Pleasure to your Home windows with new wallpapers celebrating Pleasure and plenty of LGBTQIA+ communities.
• Microsoft 365 – Flip in your Pleasure in choose Microsoft 365 apps* and have fun with a particular theme impressed by the flags of the LGBTQIA+ communities.
• Microsoft Groups – Present the place you stand with over 50 digital backgrounds representing completely different LGBTQIA+ flags.
• Outlook cell – Embrace your Pleasure year-round in Outlook cell on iOS and Android with everlasting themes impressed by the Pleasure, Trans, Lesbian, Bisexual and Nonbinary flags.
• Microsoft Rewards – Be a part of Microsoft Rewards to help OutRight Worldwide by merely looking on Microsoft Bing.
• Bing – Discover the tales of people that’ve contributed to the continued progress for LGBTQIA+ equality.
• Microsoft Life – Discover the tales of our workers from around the globe.
• Inclusion is Innovation – Discover LGBTQIA+ tales year-round.
• Clipchamp – Unleash your creativity on Clipchamp with Pleasure templates, filters, stickers and extra.
• Microsoft Create – Select from dozens of simply customizable templates with Microsoft Create.
• Microsoft Designer – Create distinctive Pleasure designs and get instructed textual content to match, powered by AI.

Performing 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 Pleasure marketing campaign and merchandise, we’re contributing a complete of $200,000 to Outright Worldwide, Stonewall, SAATHII, Casa Rara and GLAAD to assist within the battle 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.