Gayming Magazine
Gayming Magazine are a British, UK-based online LGBTQ video gaming magazine. They are the first video gaming website dedicated to the LGBTQ community.The site was launched in June 2019 with the aim of connecting the LGBTQ and video gaming communities, and has launched virtual Pride events. In 2021, the magazine hosted the world's first LGBTQ+ gaming awards ceremony, Gayming Awards, with the most recent event having taken place in 2022. In September 2021, "Gayming Magazine" changed its logo, which moves away from the purely video game-inspired one that launched the magazine in 2019, and  updated its mission statement. The logo was developed by queer artist Emma Ensley and will be seen in a multitude of ways as the magazine progresses. After being appointed Deputy Editor in 2019, Aimee Hart now takes on the mantle of Editor-in-Chief, with a mission to drive the magazine forward broadening out from just video games and becoming the home of queer geek culture. "Gayming Magazine" are also debuting their event Gayming LIVE in 2022, which aims to bring video games, drag artists and queer culture under one roof. History. "Gayming Magazine" was revealed at the London Games  Festival in April 2019. According to founder Robin Gray, the LGBTQ+ community had been a niche of the video gaming community, and they wanted to celebrate that and bring the two communities closer together. The site was launched in June. In September, the site was nominated for a Women in Games Advocacy award. A live event, Gayming Live, was run between 30 September and 5 October, which featured LGBTQ+ gaming artists and journalists, and writers from Fusebox Games offered writing tips. Within its first year it was reported to have a readership of 17,000. During Summer 2020, "Gayming Magazine" hosted  DIGIPRIDE 2020, a digital Pride event, emphasising the importance of getting through the COVID-19 pandemic and noting that normal Pride events were being cancelled. The site was nominated for another Women in Games award in September 2020. Gayming Awards. Gayming Awards 2021. In July 2020, "Gayming Magazine" hosted the world's first LGBTQ+ gaming awards ceremony, Gayming Awards. Presented by Electronic Arts (EA), the awards were supported by The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment. The first ceremony was held virtually in February 2021 and hosted by Suzi Ruffell. The panel of judges consisted of more than twenty LGBTQ people, though  the public voted on the Best LGBTQ+ Streamer and Gayming Magazine Readers’ Awards categories. Voting took place in November and December 2020, with all games released in 2020 being eligible. The full list of winners of the Gayming Awards 2021 are as follows: The digital-only ceremony was watched by over 150,000 unique viewers around the world, making it the largest LGBTQ+ event on Twitch over the past year. Gayming Awards 2022. The Gayming Awards, presented by Twitch, returned in-person in April 2022 and continued to be the first and only global award ceremony celebrating LGBTQ+ video gaming. 2022  s a new LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Award, as well as categories in Comic Books, Esports and Tabletop Gaming. This year, in partnership with Twitch, an expert panel of established LGBTQ+ streamers decided the nominees and winner of the new LGTBQ+ Streamer Rising Star Award. The introduction of this category aims to promote and accelerate the trajectory of an exemplary queer streamer in the space. The full list of winners of the Gayming Awards 2022 are as follows: New Gayming Award categories for 2022. This year's awards are also supported by: Green Man Gaming, Bandai Namco, Space Ape Games , UKIE, German Games Industry Association, Out Making Games and London Games Festival. Gayming LIVE. Gayming LIVE, an event created by Gayming Magazine, is a convention celebrating all things queer geek culture. The event is debuting in New York City in 2022. The event was first held in London in 2019, but this marks its first foray in the states. The convention will also feature vendors, comic and anime zones, cosplay parades, indie game demos, and more. Gayming LIVE 2022 is headlined by Jiggly Caliente, Juice Boxx, and Rock M Sakura, from "RuPaul’s Drag Race", as well as Biqtch Puddin ’ and Erika Klash from "The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula". They will be joined by the co-stars and members of the all-drag Twitch stream team, Stream Queens, DEERE, Luc Ami, and New York Drag Artist, Megami. Supporting Gayming LIVE are IRL gaymer groups NYC Gaymers, Geeks Out, GaymerX, Qweerty Gaymers, Boston Gaymers, Houston Gaymers, and Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association, member-led communities of LGBTQIA+ gamers.