LGBTQ gamers are rejoicing about the pride flags in ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’

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Your LGBTQ-friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has just landed some major points with the queer community.

In the recently released video game Marvel’s Spider-Man, the player gets to swing Peter Parker around modern-day New York City using his super sticky web. It’s during these free roaming sessions where the player might encounter an LGBTQ easter egg in the form of a pride flag. 

Fans of the game have taken screenshots and have reacted positively to the rainbow flags and murals scattered throughout game’s open world.

Yeah, Spider-Man is pretty damn cool#PS4share #Pride pic.twitter.com/ym84MSl63Y

— Chauncey Billions (@MrHowie96) September 11, 2018 Read more…

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Newly designed Pride flag is far more inclusive for 2018

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Most products from the 1970’s — green bean jello, lettuce molds— don’t deserve a reboot. The rainbow Pride flag might be the lonely exception.

Portland designer Daniel Quasar recently launched a Kickstarter for his newly designed LGBTQ Pride flag.  Quasar has crafted a flag featuring multiple new colors, each representing a gender identity/sexual orientation, as well arrows, suggesting forward cultural movement.

“When the Pride flag was recreated in the last year to include both black/brown stripes as well as the trans stripes included this year, I wanted to see if there could be more emphasis in the design of the flag to give it more meaning,” Quasar explains on his Kickstarter page. Read more…

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