Gay Pride Hits World Of Warcraft

Gaymers and geeks will be getting their pride on come June 20th inside the virtual space of World Of Warcraft.

The Spreading Taint, the world's largest LGBT online gaming guild, has announced plans for its fifth annual World of Warcraft Pride Celebration, to be held Saturday, June 20. Events will include the annual online virtual pride parade in which hundreds of players march through the world, a dance party at Booty Bay, the "Azeroth's Next Top Model" fashion show, a craft fair, and a nude dueling contest. Prizes will include gold, in-game pets, and a Mechano-Hog -- Warcraft's much-coveted version of a motorcycle.

The Spreading Taint is the largest and most well-known part of the Rough Trade Gaming Community, which grew out of previous LGBT guilds in earlier MMORPGs. This year's Pride events are modeled more than ever on real life Pride events. with women players heading up the parade with Taint's homage to Dykes on Bikes. While the Spreading Taint welcomes all, we are taking this year's Proudmoore Pride as an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the humor, patience, skills and undeniable sass that our female and female-identified players bring to the game and to our guild. To see videos of past pride celebrations, click here, or search YouTube for "pride," "Proudmoore," and "Taint."

Here's what last year's parade looked like.