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1 117.jpg?resize=1200,630 - Lego Unveils It’s First LGBTQ+ Set Titled ‘Everyone Is Awesome’ To Celebrate Pride Month

Lego Unveils It’s First LGBTQ+ Set Titled ‘Everyone Is Awesome’ To Celebrate Pride Month

With Pride Month fast approaching, Lego decided to celebrate it with a special set of monochrome mini-figures that make up the colors of the rainbow.

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The set’s theme is ‘Everyone Is Awesome’ and it will arrive in stores soon. The minds behind the LGBTQIA+-themed Lego discussed the inspiration for this new kit, and people are already loving it.

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Creative designer Matthew Ashton initially created it for his own desk. He explained that he was inspired to create it after the Lego moved offices.

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“I wanted to make the space feel like home with something that reflected me and the LGBTQIA+ community that I’m so proud to be a part of,” he said.

The ‘Everyone Is Awesome’ seems to be a success with ‘a clear nod to all the fabulous drag queens out there’.

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After Lego revealed the themed set, the company received praises and enough of a demand for it to launch as a commercial product. Eventually deciding that the set would send an important message that could help a lot of people.

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“Growing up as an LGBTQ+ kid, being told what I should play with, how I should walk, how I should talk, what I should wear, the message I always got was that somehow I was ‘wrong’,” Ashton said.point 279 |

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“Trying to be someone I wasn’t was exhausting.point 43 | I wish, as a kid, I had looked at the world and thought, ‘This is going to be OK, there’s a place for me.point 129 | ’”point 135 | 1

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“I wish I’d seen an inclusive statement that said ‘everyone is awesome’.”

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The Lego set also had a positive impact on other Lego employees.

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“I’ve been at Lego for six years and I’ve never hesitated to be myself here, which isn’t the case everywhere,” Jane Burkitt, a fellow LGBTQ+ employee at Lego, told The Guardian. “When I joined Lego, I hoped it would be an inclusive place, but I didn’t know.”

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“People like me wonder, ‘Will I be welcome here?’ And the answer is yes, but this set means that, now, everyone knows it.”

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The new set is also getting support from fans outside the company.

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“People look to a company such as Lego – a company they love and enjoy – and think, ‘Hey if it’s OK for Lego, maybe it’s OK for me, too,’” Flynn DeMarco, a member of the LGBTQ+ AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) community said.

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