ANNOUNCING BOH & ARTIST #2 @GAYMERX : Zach Weiner & F3RAL!

Hey Gaymers!

If you missed our Gaymers Hangout! last night, no worries, as we’re here to catch you up on all the goodies, including a new Boss of Honor, artist for the GaymerXConcert, and TONS of new features on GaymerConnect.

Our second official BOH is none other than Zach Weinersmith, who is the creator of the comic strip Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He has a degree in literature and 3/8ths of a degree in physics. He published a science fiction gamebook entitled “Trial of the Clone,” and is currently running a kickstarter for a book of science themed comics, called “SCIENCE: Ruining Everything Since 1543” He also co-hosts “The Weekly Weinersmith” with Kelly.

 

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Also, announcing our second artist, F3RAL! F3RAL is an EDM and Bass Music producer and DJ from Los Angeles, CA. His performances focus on the recontextualization of a wide variety of musical styles, such as cumbia, funk, hip hop, and disco, into a live set blending Moombahcore, House, and Dubstep. Plus, he’s totally queer. Check out his music on his SoundCloud and subscribe! Also he’s on facebook http://www.facebook.com/f3ralmusic and twitter: http://www.twitter.com/f3ralmusic

BTW- tickets are now officially on sale at GaymerX.org – so tell your friends! The more Gaymers, the better! <3~

Lastly, but certainly not least, we have lots of new amazing features on GaymerConnect – so much so that we hesistate to include it all in one email!

You can now use the Gaymer SuperScope (NOT 6!) to find other Gaymers based on mutual games played and networks on, as well as find gaymers based on location through a really super cool map that shows you gaymers across the world. You can also search Gaymers by network, so if you need 3DS friends, you now have over 2,500 gaymers to meet!

You can also now create a banner for your profile, and you can also now gain and give XP when you find posts you like (or create really awesome posts) which will get your levels higher even faster to unlock some sweet new characters, with many more to come including a new bot, a dragon, a skeleton, and much much more 🙂

Hope to see you at our next Gaymers Hangout on Sunday!

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New GaymerConnect Features and Interview with GameRevolution about GaymerX!

Hey Gaymers!

Some big updates from Gaymerland –

> We recently did an interview with the fabulous GameRevolution.com about GaymerX and what’s in store. Please check it out!

 

> We’ve also made some HUGE updates to GaymerConnect including the ability to +XP posts, customize your account with user banners, and tons of new characters. Check it out and don’t forget to vote up the panels you want to see at the convention!

Hope you’re all doing great – we’re going to announce BOH #2 soon! Please tell your friends about GaymerX as tickets are selling out fast!

<3

Andrew & The GaymerConnect Team

 

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ANNOUNCING BOH & ARTIST #1 @GAYMERX : Zeke Mystique & Matthew Michael Brown!

Hey Gaymers and friends!

Got some cool gay announcements for you this wonderful Tuesday:

– Everyone who donated should have gotten an email with a Badge Code to redeem on GaymerX.org – if you haven’t gotten it, please let us know! We will not close off redemption until 2 weeks before the convention (July 15th) so you do have time to redeem your code or give to a friend.

 

– – We’re proud to announce our first of 5+ Bosses of Honor: Matthew Michael Brown!

Matthew was the  winner of Season 2 of PlayStation Network’s “The Tester”. As the first person to bring the word Gaymer to televised popular culture in such a big way, Matthew has helped blaze a trail for LGBT rights in the gaming industry. Since working for SCEA, he has gone on to work for Sony Pictures Entertainment as a digital coordinator and was recently elected President of OUT@SPE, the LGBT group on the studio lot. He has experience breaking into the gaming industry as a gaymer and is passionately continuing the fight for equality today. We’re super proud and humbled to have Matthew Michael Brown, the original Gaymer, as one of our Bosses of Honor!

 

– We’re also extremely excited to announce our first of 4+ artists for the GaymerXConcert: EZKL!

 

Zeke Mystique is a fierce chiptunemixermastermind. There is little known about this enigma — except that his beats will move your bones. Check it out:

As we mentioned before, we have AT LEAST 5 Bosses of Honor and 4 Artists at the GaymerXConcert, so expect more updates in the weeks to come.

Twitter: @GaymerConnect & @GaymerX

Youtube: GaymerConnect & GaymerX 

Thanks and can’t wait to announce more of the Bosses of Honor!!!!

Team GaymerX

GaymerX Badge Codes and Registration

Hey everyone! Been a great start to the new year!

 

As many of you know, badge codes went out this week and we are really excited to watch the number of registrations rise! As of now all badge codes should have already been received. We have found some cases of our emails getting caught in a spam filter, so if you haven’t seen yours yet, check your spam!

 

We also wanted to clear something up regarding our registration process, as it has come up. The “Legal Name” requested is only for an ID check for badge pickup and to verify your age. It WILL NOT be shown on your GaymerX badges. You will have a chance before and at the convention to set your badge name, and the default will be your GaymerConnect username.

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GaymerConnect Launch & Important Update!

Hey Gaymers!

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Hope you all are having a nerdy and wonderful holiday season. Hopefully you’ve gotten the chance to catch up on some of the games you’ve been backlogged on (Dark Souls!), gotten the good ending in hard games (Dishonored!), and wasted many an hour on trivial design choices (Oh Tiny Tower!).

In the past week, the GaymerCon team has been hard at work stuffing packages filled with presents for you! Bitroms, Stickers, Gift Bags, and Tepig Clothing Packs, oh my!

Some important things to note:

– The stickers and the bitroms are coming seperately. If you get one and don’t get the other, give it another day or so. They should come together but we had a fan report getting the stickers yesterday and her bitrom today.

– We will be sending badge redemption codes in the next week over email to the email that you used when you filled out your survey. Once you get your code, you’ll need to redeem your code (with your name and info so we can give you your badge in person at the con!) on gaymercon.org

– If you got a kickstarter package that got you a lunch or breakfast super pack, we will be emailing you separately in the coming months to let you know how it will work. If you paid over $100, you will get one breakfast ticket for you plus a number of guests equal to the amount of badges you bought. If you got the special Boss of Honor Lunch, only you (no +1s) will be allowed to this event. It’s special :3.

– If you get your bitrom, and love it, please tweet your thanks to @ogeeku for making them! If you have any issues with the bitrom at all, please direct your anger to @ogeeku for making them 😉 – if there’s any damage done with shipping, we’ll happily work with you to get you a new one, but keep in mind that all bitroms are lovingly made individually and are each handmade replicas, so they each look, feel, and smell a little different. The backs of each bitrom have been sanded down for extra smoothness, so please don’t worry if it has a slightly different texture. BONUS FUN TIME GAME: We included some gold bitroms with 5 of the just over 300 bitrom packages that went out – will you get a golden ticket? Gold bitroms can weather ANY economy

We will be announcing our guests of honor and GaymerConcert guests soon on GaymerCon.org and on our socials first, so follow us on @gaymercon and stuff!

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY INTRODUCING GAYMERCONNECT.COM

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May we direct your gaymer eyes to GaymerConnect.Com. Newly launched just yesterday, you can now live the gaymercon experience 24/7/365, like Sega Channel! (remember that hot mess?)

On GaymerConnect you can list all your gamertags, find other gaymers based on their location or common games that you both play (pulled in from Facebook if you want!), discuss specific games, join LGBTQ guilds, find local Gaymer groups like the amazing Houston Gaymers for example (Hi Eric!), choose a character, give it stats, and gain XP as you jump around GaymerConnect.

Check it out and please let us @gaymercon know what you think! Follow some other gaymers, add some games, and when you get your badge code, your character will get some XP for registering! You can also upvote/downvote panels too! Fun!!

Please keep in mind that alllllll this was made with minimal budget and done with the help of MANY people donating their time and love, so although its very ambitious, there’s bound to be bugs and parts of the site that aren’t perfect, but I’m damn impressed with what we were able to put out in just the last few months. If you think GaymerConnect is awesome, please tweet to @agius and tell him how awesome he is. He stayed up many a night making a complex Gaymer social network and he deserves some flirts. :3

Go get your profile now at gaymerconnect.com and tweet us a link to your profile so we can follow you 🙂

Happy holidays ya’ll. Be safe and around loved ones, and let’s appreciate how much LGBT progress we’ve gotten a chance to see in the last couple of years *sniff*

Love,

The GaymerCon Crew

 

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Gaymers Go Purple Contest Results!

Hey everyone!

We launched a Gaymers Go Purple Contest Video contest earlier this month and after a lot of careful deliberation we’ve finally selected our winners! We thank everybody who sent in all the awesome submissions and assure you that this was not an easy choice! Winners should email us at [email protected] and tell us which video was theirs along with their information! If you weren’t mentioned as a winner, email us anyway! We wanna send you some really cool stuff to thank you for taking part of the contest! Without further delay, here are the winners:

Grand Prize: Bestest Awesomest Video! (staff vote)

Wins a Xbox360 250GB Edition signed by the Xbox LIVE team!

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Teaming Up With Extra Life for a 24h Gaming Session For Charity!

The GaymerCon Team is proud to announce that Team GaymerCon is partnering with Extra Life 2012  to raise money for local children’s hospitals! If you don’t know about Extra Life..check it out. It’s cool stuff and it’s for a really great cause – helping sick kids get an extra life!

 

From the Extra Life websiteFor the last four years, thousands of gamers have joined together annually to play for 24 hours for Extra Life — a gaming marathon in support of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals®. Gamers rally friends and family members to sponsor their play. The funds they raise go to help save and improve the lives of kids at the CMN Hospital in their community. Since 2008, our incredible players have raised more than 2 million dollars, and this year, on October 20th, 2012 we believe they will outdo themselves yet again.

And we at GaymerCon hate to disappoint! That’s why we’re planning to have a big gaming bash in San Francisco for 24 hours straight, livestreaming it on the webs and raising money for a good cause. Once we have the livestreaming link, we’ll update this post and send it out on our socials.


 

Here’s the deets:

WHEN:  WHENEVER. You can game whenever you want for 24 hours. The Team GaymerCon party’s going to be October 20, 2012, starting at 8am going into 8 am on August 21st.


WHERE:  ANYWHERE. Literally. If you want to game while planking (is that still a thing?), more power to you. We’ll announce where we plan to hold our bash as soon as we can.


GAME/PLATFORM:  ANYTHING. Any games on any platforms. Because #EverybodyGames


HOW IT WORKS:  Like most marathon fundraisers, you ask your friends and family to sponsor your efforts.  They can make a per-hour, monthly, or one-time pledge.  Every bit helps. Then you do your part to game like you’ve never gamed before.


WHO IT BENEFITS:  Participants select the children’s hospital they want to play for during registration.  In the US and Canada there are more than 170 CMN Hospitals to choose from.  Players may also choose to play for hospitals in the UK and Australia, though gamers from anywhere are free, and encouraged, to join in.

So come join or donate to Team GaymerCon, and we look forward to seeing you on October 20th!


GaymerCon Venue Hotels Announced and Reservation Links!

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This has been a long time coming, and we thank you for your patience. Choosing a venue was not an easy decision– what with all the great hotels in San Francisco. We have worked hard and ruined many pairs of shoes walking all over the great city and we feel very strongly that we’ve made the decision that is most in the interest of our fans.

 

The Hotel Kabuki

At the peak of San Francisco’s Japantown, this will be our main hotel and will host most of our GaymerCon events. With spacious rooms, beautiful furnishings and even a Japanese garden with koi pond, the Kabuki offers a really special con experience.

 

The Hotel Tomo

Just across a courtyard from the Kabuki we find Hotel Tomo. For those of you who like things nice but want their con experience to be a bit more “fun”, you’ll probably fall in love with this hotel just as we did. With its J-Pop style decor, bright colors, and fun attitude we expect the Tomo to be a big hit with gaymers.

 

The two hotels are open now for reservations!

 

Click Here to reserve at the Hotel Kabuki

Click Here to reserve at the Hotel Tomo

 


We chose Japantown as a location because the atmosphere was so much more welcoming and festive than other places in the city. We want a place where people can have a really fun experience and where people can be comfortable expressing themselves. The Kabuki will be our central spot for all our events but we are in the process of speaking with several other Japantown locations about hosting fun stuff during GaymerCon and we’ll be sure to keep you posted as we hear back!

Our convention sure is blooming into something great!

 

GaymerCon and GLAAD team up for Spirit Day!

Create Your Own Video Wearing Purple for a chance to win a signed XBox 360s, Boomphones, and more! 

Growing up isn’t easy. Young people today have to deal with many challenges and obstacles on their way to adulthood. Bullying shouldn’t have to be one of them. Harassment for the sake of someone’s gender identity or sexuality is something many of us have lived through and that young people today still experience. It is something that costs the lives of young people to suicide or violence even in these times when things are getting better.  Young people can learn from the example of adults and their peers and sometimes all it takes is showing a little support.

That’s why in participation with GLAAD, GaymerCon’s site and staff will “go purple” on October 19th. We will be joining the millions of Americans across the country wearing purple on Spirit Day to raise awareness and show our support for LGBT youth.

Click here to take the pledge and go purple with us on October 19th!

But not only that! Being queers and geeks, this matter hits us pretty close to heart as many of us grew up knowing or even being victims of bullying. Because of this, GaymerCon is going to be holding a contest to see who can make the best video raising awareness and showing your colors for Spirit Day. Tell us about being a LGBTQ or allied youth in high school or college and how you’ve experienced or dealt with bullying, or maybe how things have gotten better since becoming an adult. Two first prizes! One for GaymerCon staff vote and one for the video with the most upvotes on YouTube – each gets a 250GB Xbox 360 signed by the Xbox Live staff, as well as a Coin Entered pass to GaymerCon. We also have Boomphones (Headphones that are also boomboxes – say WHAT!) and passes to GaymerCon for lucky winners! Submissions end 10/12, so get to it!

 

Click here to watch the video for the GaymerCon “Go Purple for Spirit Day”  video and rules!

Electronic Arts Supports GaymerCon

We are very pleased and excited to announce that GaymerCon has its first official publisher support. Electronic Arts, who are not only a huge force in video games, but also one of the most progressive companies in the games and tech industry, will have a significant presence at GaymerCon.


Full press release after the break!

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