How Pride Pixies’ NFTs Elevate LGBT Inclusivity, Educate, and Combat Hate
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Taylor Diamond-Vizcaino is the Founder and CEO of True Dream Vision, a company that is introducing the world to Pride Pixies, a series of NFT’s created to change the lives of others for the better through activism, support, inclusivity, acceptance, and representation. The company wants to see people in the LGBTQ community succeed financially, emotionally, physically, and culturally.
A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is a financial asset consisting of digital data and intellectual property stored on the blockchain such as video, photos, film, and art. Recoded ownership of this asset is stored on the blockchain for the world to see.
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“The enactment of the Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay Bill’ appeared to be designed to marginalize, vilify, and set back humans rights for the LGBTQ community,” states Diamond-Vizcaino. “I utilized the evolution of technology as a method for change, activism, and social awareness. Society has already built foundations to fight this bill, but now through the power of blockchain, we can remove censorship through an immutable distributed ledger and support those that haven’t had the education and freedom to search for their identity without prejudice.”
Born in South Florida, Diamond-Vizcaino was the child of teen parents and raised by what she calls a village of independent youngsters. “Growing up in a Latin household to young parents instilled in me a sense of responsibility and independence. My upbringing allowed me to have room to grow and be creative, but still feel responsibility and a sense of duty.”
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Nearly every member of her family was a teacher, artist, or entrepreneur. Throughout high school, she was taught leadership and perseverance through the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and was presented an award for her outstanding leadership within the district. After high school, Diamond-Vizcaino relocated to Orlando where she studied medial and cultural anthropology and sociology at the University of Central Florida.
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“During these years, I built a new support team with my co-workers while working as a lifeguard. Orlando granted me the opportunity to meet individuals from all over the world searching for their community while I searched for mine. With an anthropology degree and my knowledge of medicine, I began to turn my focus back onto society. At this time in my life, I was sure about my sexuality – as a Bisexual woman. I started to educate myself more on the labels and conservative thoughts about marginalized people.”
Diamond-Vizcaino grew to embrace her creative side by selling custom prints, designs, and apparel on online marketplaces. Not only was she filling her need to be creative, but she figured out a way to help the community.
NFTs first hit her radar in early 2020 and her instant thought was to merge her creative passions with technology. “Since technology is rapidly evolving, I called upon my father (a long-term Cryptocurrency investor) to provide me insight into cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and the monetization of intellectual property. The ability for creators to monetize their own intellectual property from videos, photos art, music, film, memberships really had me thinking about how I can serve more of a humanitarian purpose in this world for good.”
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She realized that creators, visionaries, and people of all backgrounds now have the opportunity to utilize this technology as a humanitarian effort for social change. It was at that moment, Diamond-Vizcaino created Pride Pixies.
NFT’s allow its buyer to say they own the original copy of a digital file in the same way you might own the original copy of a piece of physical art. An NFT creates a chain of title and a certificate of authenticity that you couldn’t attain in today’s system. Among some benefits of owning an NFT, owners can obtain special rewards, or an authentic certificate of admission to an event, preventing counterfeit items.
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“The industry’s biggest challenges are lack of inclusivity, the lack of education, and friction in the NFT and crypto markets. We are addressing these challenges by building an inclusive community, donating 5% of our profits to Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Ofrezco.org to support marginalized people and women in tech. We are developing the first animated non-binary series of NFT’s, the first non-binary play to earn video game, and building an NFT/DeFi platform with ease-of-access to enter the market as well as supplying tutorials and webinars to educate all.”
There has never been a time in a creator’s life when they could monetize their intellectual property for life in perpetuity. Creators now have the ability to program a smart contract built into the NFT that can pay royalties to the creator of the NFT for life as long as the NFT trades on the open market. “These royalties can be used to fund educational events, be used to donate to human rights activism, support women in tech, develop and build out more an animated series, film or video game.”
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Pride Pixies NFT was originally set to Mint on June 1, 2022, but due to the recent volatile market conditions and inflation Diamond-Vizcaino decided internally to postpone our mint date to June 1, 2023, allowing for more time to promote Pride Pixies, increase their engagement for a larger community and to continue developing the items on their roadmap. Diamond-Vizcaino will only offer 10,557 Pride Pixies NFTs, so the limited-edition supply will surely be in-demand.
“Change is evolutionary and the impact we make is one that sets the path for the new visionaries of the world.”
