June marks the start of Pride Month, a time that highlights the LGBTQ+ community, diversity and inclusion, and celebrates people for being themselves.
While we’ve made a lot of progress towards acceptance in the past few years, we still have a long way to go. The LGBTQ+ community continues to face discrimination on a daily basis worldwide. It’s tough knowing that many of our employees and players experience these hardships just because of who they are and how they identify themselves. Since we are a gaming company responsible for creating immersive experiences that bring people from all walks of life together, we can and want to help forge safe spaces not only in our game and community, but outside of those places too.
To do that, we’ve teamed up with OutRight Action International this year for Pride Month.
Welcome the Rainbow Roller
Courageously colorful and full of life, the Rainbow Roller is our first ever Pride Month charity mount. All proceeds from the sales of this mount will be donated to OutRight Action International. You can find the Rainbow Roller Mount in the Crown Shop in both Wizard101 and Pirate101 for 7,500 Crowns. It will only be available to purchase during Pride Month, so don’t miss out on supporting this amazing cause!
Show Off Your Pride
When we rainbow-fied our social media icons for the very first time last year, you all were super excited and asked if we could put them on merch so you could show off your spiral Pride. We’re happy to oblige this year! Now through the end of the month, the rainbow Pride logos we revealed last year are available on shirts and hoodies on our Zazzle store. All proceeds from the sales of these products will be donated to OutRight Action International.
You can see the Pride merch collection here. If shirts and hoodies aren’t your thing, you can also “customize” the designs to put them on any Zazzle product you want!
Streaming for Charity
Join Kyle IceWielder and Hawkules for a very special charity livestream on June 11th at 12 PM Central Time! Much like the mount and merch sales, all money raised during the stream will be donated to OutRight Action International. Stay tuned for a more detailed schedule soon!
We can’t wait to celebrate Pride Month with all of you. We love to hear your stories and are humbled to know how much of a positive impact Wizard101 and Pirate101 have made on some of your lives. We look forward to continuing that and making our games and community the most inclusive places they can be.
With Pride,
The KingsIsle Team
About OutRight Action International
OutRight Action International works at global, regional, and national levels to eradicate the persecution, inequality, and violence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people around the world. With staff in over 12 countries and headquarters in New York, OutRight builds capacity of LGBTIQ movements, documents human rights violations, advocates for inclusion and equality, and holds leaders accountable for protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people everywhere. OutRight was founded in 1990 and has recognized consultative status at the United Nations.