This 12 months we’re celebrating the 30^th anniversary of the World LGBTQIA+ Staff and Allies at Microsoft (GLEAM) worker useful resource group that could be a driving pressure for LGBTQIA+ inclusion and Pleasure at Microsoft world wide.

At a time when LGBTQIA+, transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive communities want assist, 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 assist and advocate for LGBTQIA+ folks don’t begin or finish at Pleasure. By supporting our workers by means of world advocacy, charitable giving and higher office practices, we hope to make a distinction for LGBTQIA+ communities and past, as our drive for optimistic world impression continues.

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

Making Pleasure open-source

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

Final 12 months, we open-sourced our  Pleasure flag design representing 40 LGBTQIA+ identities. Our flag replace launched at present displays nearly 50 identities, expands illustration of Asexual, Aromantic and Trans identities, and is accessible in new designs and sizes.

Our Pleasure expression displays on the open, inviting, grass-roots nature of Pleasure. Brush strokes, vivid colours and quite a lot of flag combos have fun a neighborhood that’s vast, world, and ever-growing.

That is Pleasure

Our Pleasure facilities on easy truths concerning the LGBTQIA+ expertise shared by workers world wide. Hugging your cherished one is Pleasure. Brazenly serving your nation is Pleasure. Mutual respect is Pleasure. And far more. By sharing their tales, LGBTQIA+ folks at Microsoft hope to ask everybody to make extra Pleasure.

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

Extra LGBTQIA+ storytelling and illustration on Xbox

Final 12 months, we made a press release of LGBTQIA+ visibility by releasing the Xbox Pleasure controller. This beloved and viral design is accessible year-round on Xbox Design Lab.

This 12 months, 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 means of this partnership, we’re hoping to carry extra LGBTQIA+ tales, characters and lived experiences to Xbox in methods that can resonate with players world wide.

Throughout 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 a few of the many celebrations on Xbox. Uncover extra on Xbox Wire.

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

This 12 months, LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft invite everybody to hitch our dwell “Make Pleasure” occasion on YouTube to be taught 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’ll be able to 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 energy of the LGBTQIA+ communities.

• Microsoft Unlocked – Uncover all issues Pleasure at Microsoft.
• Xbox – Discover nonprofit partnerships, neighborhood 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 – Rejoice 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. Accessible year-round in all Xbox Design Lab markets.
• Microsoft Retailer – Discover collections of video games and motion pictures curated by the LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft.
• Home windows – Carry your Pleasure to your Home windows with new wallpapers celebrating Pleasure and lots 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 totally 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 part of Microsoft Rewards to assist 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 world wide.
• 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.

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

We’re persevering with our long-standing assist 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 12 months, and over $30 million we’ve donated within the final 30 years.