Have you ever heard of the LGBTQ+ VR museum? It’s a virtual reality exhibition that tours the world, featuring artifacts, artwork and stories of LGBTQ+ people. The stories behind these objects are truly moving, and their presentation in an interactive medium makes them even more special. Here’s a preview:
When the exhibition was hosted in London by Deloitte in November 2022, visitors could leave notes at the end, sharing their thoughts. Each card had a prompt like “Advice to my younger queer self” or “I think it’s important to live authentically, because…” or “I’m an LGBTQ+ ally because…” and lots of people left their thoughts on their way out.
After the event, some of these anonymous reflections were picked up by Deloitte’s designers and turned into a collection of beautiful hand-drawn postcards!
When Deloitte heard about Postcrossing recently, they realized this would be the perfect way to spread these postcards out into the world, and have them reach people out there — and we couldn’t agree more! These joyful postcards deserve to make their way into the hands of the people we love and are proud of! Like they say, “A story shared is a person seen”, and we want people to know that we see them.
So Deloitte partnered with us to give out 100 packs of 5 postcards each, to 100 postcrossers out there! To participate in this giveaway, just leave a comment on this blog post telling us who you would send one of these postcards to. Maybe to someone you love? Or someone you know who could use a bit of encouragement and support? Or maybe you would save it for the next person who mentions being part of the LGBT community on their Postcrossing profile? We want to know how far and wide these postcards will travel!
This giveaway will run for 2 weeks, and Paulo’s random number generator will select 100 winners when the giveaway closes. We’ll post the winners on this blog post then, and if you’re a winner, you’ll also receive an email from us. Good luck, everyone!
And the winners of this giveaway, as chosen by Paulo’s random number generator are…
romiknaa,
vloki,
Kitaloko,
swandog,
SimoneB,
charzevans,
AndyBeau,
Windows95,
dogfan,
Myrake,
LucanBoy,
400TX,
rutkiuss,
vw08,
froukjeb,
thecottonwoods,
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asuayan,
hairygranola,
AlohaJoe,
Reisegern,
ScubaET,
Casehandler,
cardexplorer_1,
GermanInArabia,
Kanjada,
ricrui3,
sohnderleere,
vanessavan,
Smiley,
imtuz,
Julia1506,
Portiariana,
Luziaceleste,
scrabblebum,
Aqality2,
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ryangray,
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SassyChicken,
StarStickersAJ,
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nekelin,
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pamgran,
menschenskind,
Alysse,
ThePostCat,
flyingmomo,
PCBlue,
mkmk,
Queen_of_the_Hounds,
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Karina2005,
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Tarane,
cysiphist,
Chocola-t,
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Knirin,
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mteton,
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kintsugi,
milkiwei,
OldManSea,
MoominMog,
AmandaB,
EricTheMailman,
Gummy,
Troy-S,
nublu,
AbstraktesHerz,
SingleTunePoet,
hh_h4a, kitchentable, cataloger25, Evalefthanded and mondkind. You should all receive an email soon.
Congratulations, and thank you all for participating! Your answers and touching stories brought tears to our eyes, and we wish we could give a tight hug to every one of you!