For this year’s Summer of Pride celebration, we’ll be seeing the likes of Twitch, Nintendo, and Steam jumping on the bandwagon as they open up their services for the various festivities due to go down.
California-based games and media production studio MidBoss - developer of the inclusive cyberpunk adventure 2064: Read Only Memories - will be presenting the second annual Summer of Pride event that will be running digitally throughout the rest of this month.
In case you didn’t know, Summer of Pride is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ diversity in games. Between now and June 30th, a bunch of LGBTQIA+ streamers will be playing a wide range of queer-positive games, all the while raising money for life-changing LGBTQIA+ charities. This year, the supported charities are The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, and GaymerX.
You’ll be able to tune in to any of said streams via the MidBoss Twitch Channel, and donate (via Tiltify).if and where you can. Check out the streaming schedule on the official Summer of Pride website, where you’ll see the likes of more than 70 top streamers from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum including Spofie, Mischa, iambrandon, and DEERE. Winner of season 2 of The Boulet Brothers’ DRAGULA and competitive fighting gamer Biqtch Puddin will also be participating.
The streamers will be playing a ton of games, all featuring positive representations of queer characters, themes, and stories. These will range from The Last of Us: Left Behind and Mass Effect to Life is Strange and Always Sometimes Monsters.
But wait, there’s more. There’ll also be a Summer of Pride 2020 Sale, offering discounts of up to 80% on a wide range of beloved queer-positive games. Both Steam and the Nintendo Switch eShop will be hosting deals of this nature, between June 9th-25th, and June 20th-30th, respectively.
A permanent digital storefront created by MidBoss dedicated to queer-positive games will launch some time this month in partnership with Chrono.gg, so keep an eye out for the deals to be hosted on that too.
According to Cade Peterson, CEO of MidBoss:
Source: Stride PR
We want everyone to experience the range of diversity bubbling just below the surface of gaming, whether that’s by getting hands-on with the games or watching a beautiful array of diverse streamers find pieces of themselves in the works of queer developers.
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