Lego’s new exciting set will include 11 unique figures of varying colours to represent the rainbow and LGBTQ+ Pride flag. Matthew Ashton, the ice president of design at the Lego Group, spoke to The Guardian about the Lego LGBT+ set he created.
Ashton first created the set at the Lego offices, at his desk, to create a space that “reflected me and the LGBTQIA+ community I’m so proud to be a part of”.
The designer explains how his experiences as a childhood shaped his approach to creating an inclusive project. “Growing up as an LGBTQ+ kid – being told what I should play with, how I should walk, how I should talk, what I should wear – the message I always got was that somehow I was ‘wrong’,” he said. “Trying to be someone I wasn’t was