Lego gay set
Lego is about to get a whole lot gayer, with the timeless construction toy launching its first dedicated Queer Pride kit.
The upcoming Everyone is Incredible set, which launches on 1 June to mark the beginning of Celebration Month, is based on the colours of the Progress Pride flag. It incorporates black and brown minifigs to reflect the diversity of the homosexual community, and glow blue, white, and pink figures to represent trans people, alongside the six colours of the original Pride flag.
The set was planned by Lego’s vice president of style, Matthew Ashton, who is openly same-sex attracted. Ashton says “I wanted to make a model that symbolises inclusivity and celebrates everyone, no matter how they identify or who they love.”
The fix opts for a minimalist approach, with a cascading ‘waterfall’ of each of the flag’s eleven colours and a featureless minifig to match. The lack of expression or defined gender on the figures is deliberate, to let people to proposal their own individuality onto any of the characters, irrespective of hairstyle or any other gender or sexuality signifier.
The only exception is the purple minifig sporting a large beehive ‘do, wh
Simon and Dan, better established as Two Gay AFOLs, are vibrant voices in LEGO fan media, sharing their love for the hobby on social media and at fan events. The pair are also pillars of the Minifig Habitat community and sigfig scenes, helping build people and ensuring that everyone feels welcome. We sat down with Dan (the talkative one!) about the pair’s rise and the importance of GayFOL representation (Gay fan of LEGO) in the hobby.
TBB: Let’s start with the origin of your LEGO journey. When did you first play with LEGO? Carry out you remember your first set? If it was as a child, did LEGO stay a part of your life ever since or did you go through a “dark age”? What brought you back to LEGO as an adult?
Dan (Two Queer AFOLs): Growing up LEGO was very expensive. Playmobil was more popular in Spain so I had more of that. The only LEGO I had was a bag of used LEGO given to me by a family friend. There was a lot of classic cosmos and pirates sets mixed in. Two of my favourite sets that were in the bag were the MTron Ionizer and the Forbidden Island set! I kept rebuilding the sets time and day again.
Simon and his older brother grew up with LEGO while his brother had more Te
Lego launching first LGBTQ position called “Everyone Is Awesome”
Lego is celebrating Pride Month in June by initiating its first ever LGBTQ-themed set, “Everyone Is Awesome.”
Inspired by the Pride flag, the 346-piece set features 11 Lego figures painted in different shades of the rainbow flag, as well as black and brown to represent diversity, and light blue, ivory, and pink from the transgender flag.
Only one figure has a specific gender: the purple one, which features a beehive wig in a “clear nod to all the fabulous drag queens out there,” the set’s designer, Matthew Ashton, told The Guardian. The rest have no specific gender, allowing them to “express individuality, while remaining ambiguous.”
Ashton, who is Lego’s vice president of design, said that he created the initial fix make his office “feel like home with something that reflected me and the LGBTQIA+ community I’m so proud to be a part of.”
When other LGBTQ people told him they “loved it,” Ashton decided to put the set into production.
In a separate statement, he said he wanted to form a Lego set that symbolized “inclusivit