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GaymerX
GaymerX is an American 501c3 non-profit dedicated to celebrating and supporting LGBTQ+ people and culture in the world of gaming, with a focus on video games. GaymerX puts on a fan-facing convention with LGBT-oriented gaming and geek culture, or gaymer, with panels primarily focused on LGBT issues and debates in the gaming industry. History GaymerX was founded in August 2013 by Matt Conn and Toni Rocca as part of MidBoss. The goal was to establish a space for those who felt larger gaming conventions like E3 were unwelcoming places for LGBT gamers. The first instance of GaymerX was financed through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, and occurred on August 3 and 4, 2013 in San Francisco, CA. Organizers have said the event is about uniting gay gamers, not creating a division among gamers, as they want to create a "safe place" for LGBT gamers. The planned convention began with significant news coverage of its initial Kickstarter launch, but the event achieved more widespre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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GaymerX is an American 501c3 non-profit dedicated to celebrating and supporting LGBTQ+ people and culture in the world of gaming, with a focus on video games. GaymerX puts on a fan-facing convention with LGBT-oriented gaming and geek culture, or gaymer, with panels primarily focused on LGBT issues and debates in the gaming industry. History GaymerX was founded in August 2013 by Matt Conn and Toni Rocca as part of MidBoss. The goal was to establish a space for those who felt larger gaming conventions like E3 were unwelcoming places for LGBT gamers. The first instance of GaymerX was financed through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, and occurred on August 3 and 4, 2013 in San Francisco, CA. Organizers have said the event is about uniting gay gamers, not creating a division among gamers, as they want to create a "safe place" for LGBT gamers. The planned convention began with significant news coverage of its initial Kickstarter launch, but the event achieved more widesprea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaymer
Gaymer and gay gamer are umbrella terms used to refer to the group of people who are identified as homosexual and have an active interest in video games or tabletop games, also known as gamers. Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender gamers are often categorized under this term. This demographic has been the subject of two large surveys that attracted press coverage: by Jason Rockwood in 2006, who noted the level of prejudice that gaymers endure, and by Paul Nowak in 2009 focusing on what gaymers expect of video games. A gaming convention oriented to LGBT gaming and geek culture, GaymerX, first took place on August 3 and 4, 2013, in San Francisco. Chris Vizzini, owner of the gaming site ''Gaymer.org'', was involved with several online communities (in special with Reddit) between 2007 and 2013 in a controversy and legal dispute over the trademark of the term ''gaymer'', which ended when Vizzini surrendered the right to the term and the trademark was cancelled. In recent years, mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Conn
Matt Conn (born 1987 in San Francisco, California) is the founder and former CEO of MidBoss. He is known for the creation of GaymerX, the cyberpunk story adventure game '' Read Only Memories'', and producing the LGBTQ video game documentary ''Gaming In Color''. He is also a founding member at BandPage, which was acquired by YouTube in 2016 and for winning the Travel Channel television program ''America's Worst Driver''. On March 26, 2018, Conn stepped down from the board of GaymerX and as CEO of MidBoss after allegations of sexual abuse, underpaying workers, and workplace harassment. GaymerX GaymerX (initially GaymerCon) was founded in February 2012 and launched its Kickstarter on August 1, 2012 with a goal of $25,000. It hit its goal within five days and ended up raising just over $91,000. The first convention was held on August 3 and 4, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The launch was covered by sites such as Examiner and GamePolitics.com. Throughout the fundraising camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MidBoss
MidBoss is an American video game and media production company that was founded by members of the GaymerX team as they expanded beyond GaymerX into other ventures, specifically ''Gaming in Color'' and '' 2064: Read Only Memories''. On March 26, 2018, Matt Conn stepped down as CEO of MidBoss after allegations of sexual abuse, underpaying workers, and workplace harassment. Cade Peterson was tapped as the new CEO in April 2018. ''2064: Read Only Memories'' '' 2064: Read Only Memories'' is a cyberpunk adventure game, released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, SteamOS, Linux and Ouya on October 6, 2015, and on PlayStation 4 on January 17, 2017. It was successfully funded for $64,378, via Kickstarter on December 12, 2013. ''Gaming in Color'' ''Gaming in Color'' is a documentary film that focuses on queer gamers and industry workers, and the movement to include LGBTQ characters and themes in video game narratives. This project also received funding through a Kickstarter campaign in May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Woo
Jaime Woo is a Canadian writer and game developer. He is best known for his 2013 book ''Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect'', an exploration of the impact of Grindr on social interaction in the gay male community which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for non-fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards. Woo was a cofounder of the Toronto-area video game convention Gamercamp, created the For All Gamers Sake archive of LGBT-themed indie video games, and was a speaker at the 2014 edition of GaymerX. , February 19, 2014. He has also contributed to publications including '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain (born 1952/1953) is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series, the Combine Overwatch in ''Half-Life 2'', and the Administrator, the announcer in ''Team Fortress 2''. Her voice roles also include the Jaeger A.I. in ''Pacific Rim'' and The Witch in ''Left 4 Dead'' and ''Left 4 Dead 2''. Career McLain provides voices for many characters in several video games from Valve. Among them are GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series (for which she won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance), the announcer in ''Team Fortress 2''; and the voice of the Combine Overwatch for the ''Half-Life'' series. McLain sang "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone", the ending credits songs to ''Portal'' and ''Portal 2'', respectively, both of which were written by Jonathan Coulton. She sang " Cara Mia Addio" at the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya DePass
Tanya DePass, also known by her username Cypheroftyr, is an American journalist, activist and streamer. She is the founder of the non-profit organization I Need Diverse Games, which she established in 2016. Early life DePass grew up in a poor family in Chicago. She has been a fan of tabletop and video games from her early childhood. She has recalled that "games were another way to flex my imagination. I loved reading, and I treated it as an extension of being able to read and go to these different places – in games you can literally visit another world... It was an escape, it was relaxing, it was formative"; she stated that she learned Black and queer characters were only given "incidental" roles and that "people who look like me" were not "full character ..who get to save the world". Career DePass has written articles on topics of diversity, feminism, and race, for publications including ''Polygon'' and Vice, and provides diversity consultation services to game developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Bellamy
Gordon P. Bellamy (born November 9, 1970) is an American video game executive. He has over 19 years of experience and leadership in the interactive entertainment industry. Gordon was the executive director of the International Game Developers Association from August 2010 until July 2012. Childhood Bellamy was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Reston, Virginia. Gordon attended Beauvoir School and Kent Gardens, where he was a member of Shainisville, a 3rd grade gifted and talented class taught by Lara Shainis. Shainisville alumni include Andy Gavin, Gary Shenk, and Sarah Hung Ying. He went on to attend the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and Duke University's Talent Identification Program. In 1984, Gordon was a member of the National Champion Mathcounts Team from Virginia, who won the inaugural competition. Gordon attended South Lakes High School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Virginia Governor's Schools Program and St. Paul's School. In 1987, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Macklin
Colleen Macklin is a female game designer, an associate professor of media design at Parsons The New School for Design and founder and co-director of PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) which focuses on games for experimental learning and social engagement. Education She has a BFA in Media Arts from Pratt Institute and has done graduate studies in computer science at City University of New York and in international affairs at The New School. Career On July 26, 2012, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched an Academic Consortium on Games for Impact. Macklin was one of 16 academics invited to join the invitation-only group. PETLab, the research group Macklin founded and co-directs, is known for encouraging "creative approaches to, and deeper, dynamic understandings of, the complex issues society faces today, such as climate change, wealth and resource distribution, and media literacy." The project also aims to get games to teach the player by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Kerry Ohanian ( hy, Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան; born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz. He also co-founded the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. He was also a partner at Y Combinator. Ohanian is based in Florida, where he lives with his wife, tennis player Serena Williams, and their daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian. , Forbes estimated Ohanian’s net worth as $70 million. Early life Alexis Kerry Ohanian was born in Brooklyn, New York. His paternal grandparents came to the United States as refugees after the Armenian genocide. Ohanian's mother was from Germany. He went to Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland, where he gave the student address for his graduating class in 2001. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gaider
David Gaider is a Canadian Narrative Designer and writer. He was the lead writer and creator of the setting for the role-playing video game series ''Dragon Age''. He worked for Edmonton, Alberta-located game developer BioWare from 1999 to 2016, before leaving to join another Edmonton-based studio, Beamdog, as their Creative Director. He departed Beamdog after two years. In 2019, Gaider announced the assumption of a Creative Director position at the newly-founded Melbourne, Australia-based indie game developer, Summerfall Studios, and a new project entitled ''Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical''. Career Gaider began his professional life in the service industry, eventually managing a small hotel, while game designing was a side hobby to him. In 1999, a friend who worked as an artist at a local game studio named BioWare (at that point having only recently achieved success with the release of ''Baldur's Gate'') suggested to the studio founders, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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