Pride month has begun and Blizzard has put out a small collection of new merch to go alongside it.

Over the past few years, you may have seen Blizzard employees in similar employee apparel, followed by comments about how members of the community would love to know where they got the shirt. Well, now that's actually a reality thanks to LGBT folks at Blizzard, who created the original designs, pushing to get them made public.

Here are the shirts, clicking on the image will take you to the Blizzard Gear Store where they can be purchased. Also see below for a thread from Twitter from Valentine, a UI Senior Software Engineer on the World of Warcraft team, who talks about the shirts more.

Quote From Valentine

Seeing people criticizing Blizzard for rainbow capitalism, and I can understand that reflex. I’m here to set the record queer on this. I’m a queer, trans person who works at Blizzard. These shirts were a labor of love by LGBT people at this company.

They were designed and created by LGBT people here for Pride, and a lot of us wanted them to be made publicly available. After a lot of hard work by some awesome people at this company, we made it happen.

For me, these shirts and the pins we did for the Trevor Project charity fundraiser are meaningful, because Blizzard is interwoven with a bunch of amazing LGBT+ people who have poured ourselves into creating our games.

Video game spaces have long felt inaccessible to me growing up. The stories that have been told and the social spaces were not representative or always welcoming to people like me. I’ve spent the last 3.5 years at Blizzard along with my colleagues, trying to change that.

Blizzard, and the entire industry have a long way to go, but we are working on it every day. And visible representation is a big part of that. I’m really proud of the people who made these shirts happen, and I’m so glad to live in a world where our fans wanted them.