Valve needs to support Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

[Mountain Months]

Why doesn't Valve support the LGBTQ+ community by implementing rainbow text and rainbow background for the remainder of Pride Month?

Lets be on the right side of history!

[Draconic NEO]

I agree, they absolutely should. Unfortunately they probably won't considering they haven't even bothered to update the web UI in ages. So while it would be nice for them to do it they probably won't, at least until they update the site UI.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by cinedine:

So it's totally okay to hold a parade on August 9th to celebrate straigth sexuality, shove your sexualtiy into the face of everyone who you cross during November and demand special lessons for straigth sexuality, manly men and wifely women in March?

I'd say if you do any of it, you'd have a lot of people seething ...

So... like pride month?

Because apparently every time someone brings pride month we also get a lot of people seething about it.

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

I will have to disagree with that statement, as especially straight white men are getting discriminated in the modern world, at least if we look in most of the western world

Please quote which laws have been enacted in your country that prohibit you from being straight?

Because only last year the US introduced over 500 anti LBTG+ bills in their state legislations.
And that's thrice as many as the ones introduced during 2022.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

I can almost guarantee a pride sale of some kind, at some point, this month. Like they have had the past.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/seasonofpride2022
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/lgbtq-sale

We'll also have the obligatory "Why is Steam having 'political' sales" threads on the subject.

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Rainbow capitalism doesn't mean a company supports civil rights more than other companies who don't make announcements about June being pride month.

I'll take token support over no support at all.

It also often makes for fun boycott campaigns.

[Draconic NEO]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Rainbow capitalism doesn't mean a company supports civil rights more than other companies who don't make announcements about June being pride month. Look at their actions, not their announcements. Steam having online conduct rules is already infinitely more helpful to LGBT people than any pride month announcement they could make.

It would be if they enforced said rules, but as it stands they do not adequately enforce them. The person who advocated genocide against transgender people in the last (now currently locked) thread not only didn't get in trouble for it their comment still stands untouched in that thread.
So how exactly is it helpful to have conduct rules when they aren't enforced where it counts?

Edit: Thanks for giving free points to someone you disagree with.

[Draconic NEO]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by cinedine:

So it's totally okay to hold a parade on August 9th to celebrate straigth sexuality, shove your sexualtiy into the face of everyone who you cross during November and demand special lessons for straigth sexuality, manly men and wifely women in March?

I'd say if you do any of it, you'd have a lot of people seething ...

So... like pride month?

Because apparently every time someone brings pride month we also get a lot of people seething about it.

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

I will have to disagree with that statement, as especially straight white men are getting discriminated in the modern world, at least if we look in most of the western world

Please quote which laws have been enacted in your country that prohibit you from being straight?

Because only last year the US introduced over 500 anti LBTG+ bills in their state legislations.
And that's thrice as many as the ones introduced during 2022.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

I can almost guarantee a pride sale of some kind, at some point, this month. Like they have had the past.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/seasonofpride2022
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/lgbtq-sale

We'll also have the obligatory "Why is Steam having 'political' sales" threads on the subject.

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Rainbow capitalism doesn't mean a company supports civil rights more than other companies who don't make announcements about June being pride month.

I'll take token support over no support at all.

It also often makes for fun boycott campaigns.

It is very funny when people claim they're boycotting something solely because they hate LGBTQ people and the thing ends up doing better because of the attention they bring, and also because bigots represent a surprisingly small minority of the actual customers. Most people don't actually care if someone is gay or transgender, what matters is being a good person (they don't think that someone being gay or trans makes them a bad person, only bigots think that).

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

I can almost guarantee a pride sale of some kind, at some point, this month. Like they have had the past.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/seasonofpride2022
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/lgbtq-sale

We'll also have the obligatory "Why is Steam having 'political' sales" threads on the subject.

A few months ago, I remember there being threads for "how dare they have a sale about X" and "how dare they not have a sale about X" for the same X within a week of each other.

[TBS AlexDK]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

I will have to disagree with that statement, as especially straight white men are getting discriminated in the modern world, at least if we look in most of the western world

Please quote which laws have been enacted in your country that prohibit you from being straight?

Because only last year the US introduced over 500 anti LBTG+ bills in their state legislations.
And that's thrice as many as the ones introduced during 2022.

Could you quote the anti LGBTQI+ bill or for that matter multiple entered into law and what part of the law you claim to discriminate against said community?

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

A few months ago, I remember there being threads for "how dare they have a sale about X" and "how dare they not have a sale about X" for the same X within a week of each other.

- "Steam should do a capitalism sale!"
- [Steam does a capitalism sale]
- "How does Steam dare make a capitalism sale!"

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

Could you quote the anti LGBTQI+ bill or for that matter multiple entered into law and what part of the law you claim to discriminate against said community?

You can google them out yourself if you're interested.

[Aachen]

https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024

[Draconic NEO]

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Please quote which laws have been enacted in your country that prohibit you from being straight?

Because only last year the US introduced over 500 anti LBTG+ bills in their state legislations.
And that's thrice as many as the ones introduced during 2022.

Could you quote the anti LGBTQI+ bill or for that matter multiple entered into law and what part of the law you claim to discriminate against said community?

There's a map here:
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/bill-tracker/?post=11486&activeView=map&activeLegislationType=bill&activeState=all&activeSort=[%22state%3Aascending%22]&activeCategories=[%22all%22]&id=bcf89f1a-53cd-46c1-845d-61c31211693c

But since you wanted a list of them here's a few sample ones:

- TX SB 15 - Relating to requiring public institution of higher education students who compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions to compete based on biological sex. (Passed Second Chamber)

- TX HB 890 - Relating to parental rights and public school responsibilities regarding instructional materials. (Passed Second Chamber)

- TX SB 14 - Relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments. (Enacted)

[Draconic NEO]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

A few months ago, I remember there being threads for "how dare they have a sale about X" and "how dare they not have a sale about X" for the same X within a week of each other.

- "Steam should do a capitalism sale!"
- [Steam does a capitalism sale]
- "How does Steam dare make a capitalism sale!"

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

Could you quote the anti LGBTQI+ bill or for that matter multiple entered into law and what part of the law you claim to discriminate against said community?

You can google them out yourself if you're interested.

He's not actually interested, he's just trying to use it as a gotcha because he doesn't think we can actually list them out.

[Aachen]

Who’s forcing you to view sites? Eblink if you’re a hostage.

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

A few months ago, I remember there being threads for "how dare they have a sale about X" and "how dare they not have a sale about X" for the same X within a week of each other.

- "Steam should do a capitalism sale!"
- [Steam does a capitalism sale]
- "How does Steam dare make a capitalism sale!"

I think it was international women's day just based on that having happened a few months ago.

[William Shakesman]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

No there is not, as that is not something that is celbrated

Maybe because straigntess is embedded into every fiber, nook and cranny of society. Maybe because straigtness isn't prosecuted, discriminated, its members abused or written laws against people belonging to that demographic.

You don't celebrate tuesdays. They just happen every week.

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

fans of a franchise are going to get mad, when they perceive changes to go against the fandom

May God save you from fandoms.

Envy is a hell of a drug. People want every rhetorical implication of the word "normal" when it benefits them without actually saying it but the second someone else actually says "normal" out comes the biggest crybaby tantrum you ever saw.

[Richard Shadow]

NO VALVE SHOULD NOT.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by cinedine:

So it's totally okay to hold a parade on August 9th to celebrate straigth sexuality, shove your sexualtiy into the face of everyone who you cross during November and demand special lessons for straigth sexuality, manly men and wifely women in March?

I'd say if you do any of it, you'd have a lot of people seething ...

So... like pride month?

Because apparently every time someone brings pride month we also get a lot of people seething about it.

And yet we have it, and no not even close to "like this." We do NOT have 11 months of "straight pride" like you said.
Not celebrating the opposite of something is obviously not the same as celebrating something. But whatever, ...