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Leaky, our master of domains, works fast! You can now link to this post easily with the short link tyriapride.com/2024! This is very handy for stuff like a guild message of the day or sharing the link to this post in in-game messages, pictures, or other places where a long link is unwieldy.

Another year rolls around so quickly, it's already time to announce that- Tyria Pride 2024 will be happening on June 22 & 23, on both NA and EU servers! ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■ 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 funds to make 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 22: Ebonhawke (at the portal from Divinity's Reach) • Sunday, June 23: 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 instances 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, where you can get all the info about the event as well as more easily get assistance! During the event, loads of attendees also hang out in voice chat, but that's a totally optional component! 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. We're also looking for volunteers for pre-events, so even if you can't make it on the day, you can still help us make 2024 the best Tyria Pride ever! • Streaming the event: Streamers have become one of the main pillars of Tyria Pride, and a ton of our fundraising comes directly from the amazing content creators in the GW2 community. If you're a streamer, big or small, we'd love to see you at the event! In the past, many streamers have even organised pre-events in support of the fundraiser! We'll be compiling and highlighting a list of streamers that will be attending the event, so if you're planning on streaming, 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! • Organising pre-events: If you're someone who can organise your own events, like a community or guild leader, a streamer, or just someone who is very good at organising stuff, you can spread the word, raise in-game funds, or even add to the Rainbow Railroad fundraiser by organising your own pre-events in anticipation of Tyria Pride! • Spreading the word: The most important thing for any event is visibility! If you can spread the word to your friends, your guild, your favorite streamer, 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 As always, we're walking the walk to create actual change and improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people worldwide, so we are running a fundraiser for Rainbow Railroad, an organisation focused on helping LGBTQ+ individuals escape state sponsored persecution and violence. Last year we were joined live by RR representative Brittany Skerritt, you can watch that video here! The fundraiser will be opened in June, closer to the event. Keep an eye on this space and follow this topic for updates! 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 4 legendaries, 18 precursors, and tons more stuff, with over 80 in-game prizes, as well as artist commission 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 ask around! In-game contact: Lelling.6795 You can also catch me live with any questions on Twitch: twitch.tv/lelling Tyria Pride discord: tyriapride.com/discord

Same, very frustrating part of a very frustrating achievement as it is (wait forever for the event to spawn, then do the tendrils, then spend forever unsuccessfully evading the 429032 turrets that spawn, dying and running back, only to discover it's not working). GG

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! 🎉

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!

■■■■■■ 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!

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!

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! ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■ 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

Yeah, this is a fun new feature this year, and I'll be seeing if we can fix that for next year or swap to a different fundraising service EU/UK folks can donate via https://tyriapride.com/paypal, all donations count for the prize raffle, and will be forwarded to Rainbow Railroad after the raffle closes in about 5 days ❤️ Glad you had fun! @TheQuickFox.3826 thanks for the vids! Glad you had a good time!

The march is on foot 🙂 You can come as you are, but a lot of people do dress up for the occasion!

Yep, please send all in-game donations to Lelling.6795! Make sure to mention Tyria Pride in the subject! And for artists or other volunteers who would love to contribute their skill, time, craft or expertise, make sure to join the Tyria Pride Discord where we can coordinate with everyone!

Fortunately, Tyria Pride is not just a thoughts and prayers event, and is in fact, as stated in the post, a fundraiser for Rainbow Railroad, an internationally active organisation that works on the ground to help LGBTQ+ people escape state sponsored persecution and violence. They work in many countries across Africa, Russia, Asia, and the Americas, to bring LGBTQ+ people to safety, currently handling a surge of requests from Afghanistan, where many queer people fear executions, and Ukraine, where LGBTQ+ refugees might find it more difficult to find safe havens. Many attendees of Tyria Pride also come from countries (or even just homes) where being queer is either illegal or dangerous, and find friendship, support, and advice. For others, even the act of having one feel good day is an act of resistance, in a society that wants to suppress them.

Hello everyone! Well the year has certainly gone by fast! Can't believe it's almost June already! I'm happy to announce that Tyria Pride 2022 will be happening on June 18 & 19, on both NA and EU servers! ■■■■■■ ■ 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 7 year history, 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 18: Ebonhawke (at the portal from Divinity's Reach) • Sunday, June 19: 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] 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! As the event draws closer, we'll include a list of volunteers here that you can contact in-game as well! 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 persecution and violence. You can find the fundraiser at justgiving.com/tyriapride2022 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! ■ 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 event itself and our discord are a great place to look! In-game contact: Lelling.6795 Tyria Pride discord: tyriapride.com/discord For general questions, replying to this post works too!

Your donation was received and logged! Sorry for the delay in response. Since in-game mails don't have the account name written down, only the character name, I didn't automatically associate your account name here with the in-game mail ^^° I send thank you messages back to every person who donated, but since sending mails to a lot of people in GW2 is tricky (if you send more than 1 mail per minute, you get suppressed), it's possible I accidentally got suppressed and didn't notice.

Hey ^^ Looks like after posting the fundraiser on the Discord and in our reddit post, this one completely slipped my mind! Thanks for the reminder ❤ I've updated it now - the fundraiser can be found at https://www.justgiving.com/tyriapride2021