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As we head into the summer, June is Pride month, and is seen as an opportunity to commemorate the fight for civil rights and the ongoing pursuit of equal justice under the law for the queer community, as well as a chance to celebrate the accomplishments of LGBTQ+ individuals.
May 17th, is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
Much like technology, we are constantly evolving and finding ways to better serve our community. They have spoken, we have listened and are migrating from Slack to Discord.
Dr. Frazer researched attitudes towards World of Warcraft's transgender character, finding strong support in forum posts. They emphasised the need for more LGBTQ+ characters and authentic representation in games. In an exclusive interview with Out Making Games, Dr. Frazer, a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, discussed their future work on transgender representation in diverse video games.
Out Making Games achieved significant wins for the LGBTQ+ community in 2022. This year, based on our desire to continually grow our support of the LGBTQ+ community, the games industry and our reach, not to mention the uncertainties on the global stage, OMG have set pillars which truly reflect our ongoing support and work for the LGBTQ+ community, in 2023/24.
The Dubai GameExpo Summit 2023, powered by Pocket Gamer Connects, looks set to be a highly significant and relevant event this year. As such, we would like to take a moment to address our concerns over what this means for LGBTQ+ people in our industry.
Addressing the launch of Hogwarts Legacy and reaffirming our support for the trans community.
Out Making Games want to get to know our community so that we can best plan future initiatives.
In celebration and support of everything LGBTQ+ in games, Out Making Games and BAFTA Games joined forces for a Pride month Twitter takeover.
OMG is proud to unveil our new logo! We have a shiny new logo as well as Sponsorship shields to celebrate our sponsors and partners.
Last year we wrote an open letter to Rockstar Games, calling on them to remove transphobic content from Grand Theft Auto 5’s next gen release. We’re thrilled to say that they have.
At not much more than a year since we formalised as a Community Interest Company, we've recently been putting some work into governance for the OMG team. We've achieved a lot with our flat committee approach, but we felt it was time to add some structure to formalise our processes and help keep us efficient, accountable and organised.
The OMG Committee have been spending January strategising and planning for what looks set to be a great 2022.
Our strategy is driven by our mission - to connect and empower the LGBTQ+ community working in the games industry across the UK and remove the barriers that exist for both current and aspiring LGBTQ+ games professionals.
750 Number of participants in Limit Break mentorship (up from 300 in 2020 following OMG's involvement to open up to LGBTQ+ and PoC)
5 Online Lunch n Learns
2 pride events
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