Pride Month Streamer Spotlight: blizzb3ar on Twitch

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Pride Month celebrations started at the beginning of June in honor of events at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, where POC, trans individuals, and drag queens led riots against the police. This event sparked a newfound tenacity in queer people at the time, and the next year the riots were celebrated through a march, which unofficially started the legacy of Pride Month. This was made official to honor gay and lesbian individuals in 2000 by President Bill Clinton, and then was extended to the whole LGBTQIA+ community by President Barack Obama in 2011.

Pride Month has become a media experience no longer relegated to marches thanks to the global reach of the Internet and queer content creators or LGBTQIA+ allies. The future of the LGBTQIA+ community looks brighter every year thanks to improvements being made and the resilience of its Twitch streamers and content creators, with whom Game Rant is conducting a series of interviews. One such individual is blizzb3ar, a queer Twitch streamer who wants to uplift the voices of marginalized groups of people, especially those of LGBTQIA+ individuals who are underrepresented within the community itself.

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Recently, blizzb3ar shared a tweet stating that he will keep on being loud, passionate, and a problem. When he was asked why he felt like he had to be a problem, he replied that he happily takes on that role because good change has to happen, and someone has to raise awareness. That's why the Twitch streamer feels like he is a villain, in the sense that he is passionate about amplifying the voices of those who are not represented enough in the queer community.

This negative perception of vocal LGBTQIA+ individuals as «villains,» to