At a time when LGBTQIA+ communities need everyone’s support, Microsoft employees invite everyone to make and expand Pride
Having two amazing daughters is Pride. Having access to healthcare is Pride. Feeling safe is Pride. LGBTQIA+ people at Microsoft share the simple truths about their lives and invite everyone to make Pride and expand LGBTQIA+ equity and equality around the world.
Last year, we open-sourced our Pride flag design representing 35 LGBTQIA+ identities. Many told us they never felt so included. Our latest update reflects almost 50 identities, and comes with new layouts.
Pride has no borders. Our Pride assets are localized in over 20 languages. You can use ready-made files or remix and create your own.
Our expression reflects on the open, inviting, grass-roots nature of Pride. Brush strokes, bright colors, and a variety of flag combinations are celebrating a community that’s wide, global, intersectional, and ever-growing.
Pride designs are flexible compositions made of almost 50 LGBTQIA+ flags. You can remix them in myriads of ways to make your work stand out.
Finding happiness in the great outdoors. This is Pride.
Mikah is blazing trails for everyone to feel safe in the great outdoors through social media and his Outside Safe Space program. By wearing or displaying the symbol of a rainbow coniferous tree, you can help others feel safe while enjoying the beauty of nature.
Long-term partnership with GLAAD
Xbox Game Studios Publishing announces a long-term partnership with GLAAD to increase LGBTQIA+ representation in Xbox games.
LGBTQIA+ collection
Discover games showcasing LGBTQIA+ creators, lead characters, character creation options, and relationship options.
Transgender and non-binary collection
Discover games with transgender and non-binary creators, lead characters, and character creation options.
Check out the latest drops in Xbox’s Pride collection to show your Pride on and off your console.
Check out the latest drops in Xbox’s Pride collection to show your Pride on and off your console.
The state of Pride
Every year LGBTQIA+ communities at Microsoft come together with advocates around the world to discuss the state of LGBTQIA+ rights and rally to make more Pride. Watch our global celebration, now available on demand.
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Show your Pride in meetings
Select from dozens of Microsoft Teams backgrounds, inspired by almost 50 flags of the LGBTQIA+ communities
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Bring it to your desktop
Bring your Pride to your Windows with new wallpapers celebrating Pride and many LGBTQIA+ communities
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Make change with every search
Join Microsoft Rewards to support Outright International by simply searching on Microsoft Bing
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Create videos and clips
Unleash your creativity on Clipchamp with Pride templates, filters, stickers and more.
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Get inspired and get going
Choose from dozens of easily customizable templates with Microsoft Create.
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Pride belongs in the workplace
Celebrate with special themes in Microsoft 365 apps*
Outlook
Choose from five themes inspired by Pride, Lesbian, Bisexual, Non-binary, and Transgender flags in Outlook apps for iOS, Android and Mac.
PowerPoint
Make a Pride point in PowerPoint apps on iOS and Mac.
Excel
Add a touch of Pride to your Excel apps on iOS and Mac.
OneNote
Make Pride even when you take notes, using OneNote themes.
Word
Pride is the word. Literally—with a theme for iOS and Mac.
$15M and counting
In the last 30 years, together with our employees, Microsoft has donated over $15M to organizations that support LGBTQIA+ communities, and in the last year alone, we donated over $1.4M. To recognize the launch of our 2023 Pride campaign and products, we’re contributing an additional total of $200,000 to Outright International, Stonewall, SAATHII, Casa Rara and GLAAD to help in the fight for LGBTQIA+ equity and equality.
Standing up for LGBTQIA+ equity since 1989
At Microsoft, we intentionally leverage our power, privilege, and global reach to drive systemic change. Microsoft introduced sexual orientation into our non-discrimination policies in 1989 – and we’ve been driving toward LGBTQIA+ inclusion ever since. We’ve been a longstanding leader in inclusive benefits. In 1993, we began offering employee benefits for same-sex domestic partnerships, making us one of the first companies in the world to do so.
Today our offerings, depending on local laws and demand, include parental and caregiver leave for all employees, regardless of gender or family structure and gender-affirming healthcare services, including travel expense support for services covered in the US health plans where access to care is limited in availability in an employee’s home geographic region.
We stood as a public supporter for marriage equality even before it became legal in the United States – and we continue to advocate for every type of family, as well as marriage equality in many regions of the globe. Microsoft has attained a 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index for 17 years.
We take accountability as a company for developing inclusive products. We regularly engage with governments, public institutions, and standards bodies across a range of issues, such as taking global action on behalf of our employees to accelerate LGBTQIA+ equality and inclusion globally. By listening and collaborating for change we’ve learned over the years to advocate for change internally and externally – and we know we’re not done.
* Choose your favorite Pride theme for Outlook in Settings > Appearance
In all other M365 apps, enable the Pride theme in Settings > Show Your Pride
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