Tyria Pride 2023!

There's a rustling in the leaves, and a messenger reaches you from the Mists, announcing that-

 

Tyria Pride 2023 will be happening on June 24 & 25, on both NA and EU servers!

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■ What is Tyria Pride?

Tyria Pride is an annual event that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and our allies both in-game and out, and raises funds for Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit organisation which helps LGBTQ+ people around the world escape state-sponsored persecution and violence!

It's a 2-day event with a long history in GW2, as part of which we'll be walking from Ebonhawke to the gates of Rata Sum in Metrica Province, hanging out & having fun while raising money to leave the world a better place than we found it!

 

■ When / Where?

The event takes place over two days, and will be held on both EU and NA servers.

Start locations:

• • Saturday, June 24: Ebonhawke (at the portal from Divinity's Reach)
• • Sunday, June 25: Lion's Arch (at the Field of the Fallen)

Start times:

• EU: 16:00 CEST [14:00 UTC]
• NA: 4 PM CDT [21:00 UTC]

These are general start times, we tend to start marching about 15 minutes past the hour. Despite this, to get into the correct instance without any issues, it's recommended to be at the location at least 15 minutes before the hour.

 

■ How to join?

To accommodate everyone coming to the event, we'll have multiple volunteers helping everyone get together, and will be taking over multiple instances of the same map. Each instance can only take about 150 people, so not everyone will be able to fit on the same instance. Our volunteers will be opening LFGs to get everyone onto a number of maps.

One way to make this simpler and to get in touch with volunteers more easily is to join the Tyria Pride discord, at tyriapride.com/discord!

Please note: Do not open your own LFGs, please wait for organisers to open theirs so that you can join on a map instance with an organiser on it. Due to how the megaservers work, just because you are in Ebonhawke / Lion's Arch, it doesn't mean you're with the organisers. That's why it's a good idea to arrive into the map before the event start time!

 

■ How to get involved?

The success and scope of Tyria Pride depends heavily on help and volunteers from the community! If you wish to help out, there are several ways you can do so:

 

 • Volunteering: Volunteers help out on the day of the event by helping ferry/taxi everyone into the correct instance between maps, guiding the path, fielding questions & providing information (which you'll be provided as a volunteer in the form of copy-pastes). A commander tag helps greatly with this but is not necessary.

 

• Streaming the event: Streaming the event is a great way to spread the word! This year we'll be compiling and highlighting a list of streamers that will be attending the event, so if you're planning on streaming the event, let me know!

 

• Contributing in-game prizes: One of the ways that we encourage donations to the Rainbow Railroad fundraiser is by doing raffles of in-game prizes. In the past, this has included legendaries, rare materials and fancy skins! If you can contribute anything that you think might be a cool prize, get in touch!

 • Spreading the word: The most important thing to any event is visibility! If you can spread the word to your friends, your guild, your grandma, your estranged cousins, share the event on social media, talk about it at brunch with your co-workers, explain it to your cat! For quick information, here's a promo image you can share!

 

If you want to get involved, either as a guild or as an individual, the best way to do that is to join our discord at tyriapride.com/discord and get in touch there, or contact me in-game at Lelling.6795 via in-game mail!

 

■ Fundraiser

But wait! We're not just talking the talk, we're also walking the walk, and we want to create actual change and improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people worldwide, so we are, as always, running a fundraiser for Rainbow Railroad, an organisation focused on helping LGBTQ+ individuals escape state sponsored persecution and violence.

You can find the fundraiser at tiltify.com/+tyria-pride/tyriapride2023 or use the short link tyriapride.com/donate!

Just like every year, those donating to the fundraiser will be able to participate in raffles to receive both in-game and out-of-game rewards! Last year we gave away 2 legendaries, 9 precursors, and 2 complete sets of black lion skins, along with over 50 other in-game prizes, as well as artist giveaways!

 

■ Contact

If you have any questions about the event, feel free to ask them here on this post! I'll be checking it regularly and doing my best to reply to any questions! You can also join the Tyria Pride in-game guild, but note that the guild is inactive throughout the year, and is only used as an infopoint to let people know about this particular event. If you're looking for an active LGBTQ+ guild, the Tyria Pride discord has a guild section, and the event itself is also a great place to look!

 

In-game contact: Lelling.6795

Tyria Pride discord: tyriapride.com/discord

Edited June 13, 2023 by Lelling.6795
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edit 1: I'm so freaking excited, HYPE, #TyriaPride2023 let's goooooooooooo!!!11!one!!!11oneone!!111!!!!!
edit 2: if you're new to the event and don't mind spoilers check out these vids from 2017:

 

Edited April 22, 2023 by AbductedFry.6032
could be interpreted as nervous homophobe not ready for a fight, but planning to fight??? idk, just making sure people see I'm team Tyria Pride haha heh

Midsummer struggles again... But maybe I can attend Sunday! ✨

This is so cool, hopefully I can make it this year!

Pride time is just aroung the corner! Huzzah! 🌈
Excited for another super amazing weekend! ✨

Bring your rainbow and pride flag themed fashion and let's march in solidarity! 🏳️‍🌈
We are so blessed to have such wonderful devs who support us and have our backs! 💖

Edited April 17, 2023 by tea.1730

On 4/15/2023 at 11:51 PM, Tossino.6019 said:

Midsummer struggles again... But maybe I can attend Sunday! ✨

I was really hoping for the public vote to sway it to a different date but alas 😅 I am hoping that you and our other Nordic friends can still show up in style on Sunday!

■■■■■■ A Way to Help: Supporting Events! ■■■■■■

Every year we get guilds, streamers and other interested parties asking how they could help out with Tyria Pride, and one of the ways is by running your own supporting pre-events, either completely on your own, or on our discord if you wish to make use of our voice channel! Either way, these events are a great way for a community, be it big or small, to contribute! ✨

Let's go through some ideas quickly!

👥  Group Events:

Group events can be anything run by even a small group or community, such as a private raid night, fractals, strikes, Dragonstorm, PvP tournaments, etc., with the group loot proceeds being combined into a cool prize or materials that can be donated to the raffle prize pool for Tyria Pride.

🌏  Open World Events:

Public events can include open world events, such as a Silverwastes farm, a Dragon's Stand or a Bounty Hunt. Events like this not only provide loot, but can also draw in crowds from outside your community, either from the map or from LFG, highlighting both Tyria Pride and your community!

🥇  Player-Organized events

You could also organize activities which are not part of in-game events, but completely self-organized, such as a Hide & Seek, a Tonic Race, a Trivia Night, etc! While these don't have any in-game loot, they can still be used to get support and attention for Tyria Pride while showcasing your community's event-planning skills!

If you're running any events like these, even completely on your own, we can definitely give you a shoutout! We're also looking to host some Integrated Pre-Events,  which would be coordinated and scheduled together with volunteers on the Tyria Pride discord. Make sure to join us there for more info on those!

In-game prize donations for the raffle can be sent to Lelling.6795, with the subject "Tyria Pride Donation"! If you're donating in the name of a guild or community, let me know in the message!

Edited May 15, 2023 by Lelling.6795
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For those who are unable to attend real life parades for any reason like me, I highly recommend attending in GW2! I've been attending every year since 2018, And as an introvert, it's been tiring, but also so much fun.

I've been playing for 7-8 years, and while this is the first time hearing about this, I will definitely spread the word. I will also consider joining in.

I made sure to take a couple of days off work so I can attend this. 😄

Definitely joining again! 🏳️‍🌈 Thanks once more for doing this 🌈

UPDATE: The fundraiser has been set up and the link has now been added to the post ! 🎉  🎉

You can find the fundraiser at tyriapride.com/donate

Also, if you want to tell your friends about Tyria Pride, you can point them to tyriapride.com/2023 which will take them right here to this post!

Bonus: for the fundraiser this year we are using Tiltify which enables streamers to set up their own Tyria Pride campaign with custom browser sources, goals and milestones! If you're having trouble setting up, be sure to join our discord and we'll be happy to help you get it set up!

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Can't wait to attend this weekend! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Very excited for tomorrow! I'll be streaming the event with the artist of Commander YES as my cohost! I don't know if you're still compiling streamers but here's my channel: https://www.twitch.tv/frogfairy6

First time i can be there.

🌈

 Had a blast once again, Saw a good handful of others joining for the first time all excited and spreading the love! Thanks for organizing this and all the beautiful floofs from all corners of Tyria that shared their stories, coordinated the beautiful chaos and made others laugh 🌈💫

Just updating with a wrap-up notice!

All donations have been processed, we have sent out all the in-game prizes, and all the winners of the art raffle have been contacted! This year, we were also joined by Brittany Skerritt, a representative from Rainbow Railroad, for a chat about what they do, and how our funds help! You can check that out here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1857500185

If you have any questions, you can always reach me via in-game mail in GW2, via DM here on the GW2 forums, or on Discord!

Thank you all for attending, for donating, supporting the event, volunteering, making videos and screenshots, and joining in one of the awesomest events in gaming! You are all awesome!

 

Together, we have raised a record $11,201 for Rainbow Railroad!

Thank you! 🎉