Companies Renege on Pledges. Is This The End of Gayming?

News has broken that GaymerX, the world’s first LGBTQ-orientated gaming convention, may be closing down before it has really had a chance to open up. It was announced earlier today by Matt Conn, the main organiser of the event, that he was “Getting very passed off at all these companies treating sponsorship of GaymerX2 as a joke.” He went on to state the lack of aid from those sponsoring companies that he had come to see as “allies” and that those companies that did pledge support have been wholly unwilling to keep to their pledges of support.

GaymerX was initially Kickstarted on the grounds that it would be “first gaming and tech convention with a focus on LGBT geek culture”, pledging to set the funds they had accrued to the task of organising what would be a place where the stereotypic direction of attention of most gaming cons, that being of the “straight white guys in dark rooms furiously mashing at a controller” would be debunked in favour of an agenda of inclusivity; people of all races, all genders, all sexual identities, would be catered to. This creed certainly resonated firmly with many, as they met their goal of $25,000 (a paltry budget, considering PAX Prime and the like) in less than five days and reached almost 4 times that at $91,000. The resulting convection in San Francisco last August was considered by many a success, with multiple famous fixtures in geek culture such as Ellen McLaine, Anna Anthropy and Zack Weiner attending and lending their support to the convention and its ethos. By the end of the con, GaymerX2 was already in the works and quickly booked for early this July, bigger and better than before, with many hoping GaymerX3 will make the convention a staple of the yearly circuit.

However, recent events seem to predict that that number will not go any further than 2, with funding becoming increasingly difficult to gather from sponsoring companies, seemingly uninterested appealing to a non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual demographic.

Mr. Conn, also founder MIDBOSS Gaming who are presently developing the LGBTQ-inclusive adventure game Read Only Memory, has by no means given up on funding another GaymerX, but as of now, forecasts are bleak. 

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