Highlights

  • The Sims 4 offers diverse LGBTQIA+ representation, allowing players to customize Sims' identities and embrace pride flags.
  • Mods like Pride Heart Posepack and Yeehaww-Sims Pride Recolours enhance Sims' wardrobes with colorful LGBTQ-themed clothing.
  • The Coming Out Mod introduces emotional interactions for Sims to express their sexuality, adding depth to storytelling in the game.

The Sims 4 has brought a wealth of customization options, allowing players to fine-tune their Sims' gender identities, romantic and WooHoo preferences, and pronoun selections. These updates have been a significant step forward in representing the LGBTQIA+ community within the game, making the virtual world of The Sims more reflective of real-world diversity.

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Despite these advancements, there's always room for growth and improvement. Many players hope to see future updates that further enhance how Sims can experience Pride Month festivities and express their unique identities. In the meantime, various mods created by the Sims community provide excellent ways to expand these features. These mods offer creative and meaningful enhancements, from custom traits and interactions to pride-themed events and decorations.

1 Pride Flag Facepaint

Cheeky Pride Month Celebration

Sims with custom makeup from the Pride Flag Facepaint mod

The Pride Flag Facepaintmod is a fantastic way to celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities. It adds eight vibrant swatches of pride flags that Sims can wear on their face, perfect for Pride Month festivities like a night out at the club, a house party with friends, or a local pride event. Sims can proudly display their identities with flags representing the gay/LGBTQ, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, intersex, genderqueer, and transgender communities.

Pride flags are more than just colorful designs; it’s about embracing and celebrating diversity within the LGBTQ+ community. Give Sims the opportunity to express themselves and their sexualities with this makeup look. Whether attending a pride parade, hosting a pride-themed party, or enjoying a day out, these facepaint options ensure Sims exude pride and show representation.

2 Pridedust Facepaint

Subtle Sparkles, Bold Statements

Sims with pride makeup from the Pridedust Facepaint mod

For Sims who prefer a more subtle expression of their identity, the Pridedust Facepaintmod offers a less obvious yet equally meaningful way to show their colors. This fairy dust makeup look is perfect for Sims who are still questioning or are in the closet about their sexuality. It can also be a good everyday look for Sims who dabble with a makeup brush. Players still holding out for a reappearance of fairies in The Sims 4 can represent their desires.

With over forty different pride flag swatches available for both feminine and masculine frames, the Pridedust Facepaint mod allows Sims to celebrate their individuality in a more understated manner while still embracing the spirit of pride. Whether it's during Pride Month or any month of the year, players should consider adding this custom makeup set to their Sims' look book.

3 True Colors

Fly Your Flag High

Two custom pride flags from the True Colors mod

The True Colorsmod is an excellent addition for Sims looking to express their pride and support in a physical way. This mod introduces a custom content flag decoration available in twelve different color swatches. Each flag is designed to represent various identities within the LGBTQ+ spectrum, allowing Sims to proudly display their true colors.

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Additionally, the mod includes a bonus Black Lives Matter flag, printed in the Simlish language, emphasizing the intersectionality of social justice movements. Sims can hang these flags outside their homes to showcase their identities or in front of their businesses, like stores and restaurants, to signal their support for the community. Create a welcoming and inclusive environment by incorporating these vibrant flags into the world's surroundings.

4 Pride Heart Posepack

Capture The Heart Of Pride

A Sim posing from the Pride Heart Posepack mod

The Pride Heart Posepack mod gives Sims a way to express their pride and individuality through a series of unique poses accompanied by a custom heart accessory. This accessory, available in thirty-one different swatches, can be found in the ring section of create-a-sim. After equipping the accessory, players can place pose statues to position their Sims, select a pose, and snap a picture.

This mod is perfect for players who love capturing and sharing photos of their Sims, adding a colorful and prideful touch to their snapshots. Pose packs like the Pride Heart Posepack are especially popular among players who enjoy showcasing their Sims on social media. Whether celebrating Pride Month or simply expressing love and support for the community, this pose pack provides a fun and visually appealing way to highlight inclusivity in The Sims 4.

5 Yeehaww Sims-Pride Recolours

Dress To Impress With Pride

Sims wearing pride clothing from the Yeehaww Sims-Pride Recolours mod

The Yehaww-Sims Pride Recoloursmod brings a vibrant and fashionable touch to The Sims 4, perfect for those looking to enhance their Sims' wardrobes with LGBTQ-themed clothing. While the base game includes a few pride-related items, they lack the style that LGBTQ+ players yearn for. This mod addresses that by adding seventeen new custom clothing pieces, including shirts, hoodies, bandanas, beanies, necklaces, and earrings.

Each item boasts an impressive 150 color swatches, allowing Sims to represent the colors of their flags in a variety of stylish options. With such a wide array of swatches, there's something for everyone, making it easy to create unique and personalized looks for every Sim. This mod pack is ideal for players who want their Sims to dress to impress while showcasing their pride.

6 Punk Pride Stuff Pack

Alternative Pride, Authentic Style

Two Sims posing in clothing and makeup from the Punk Pride Stuff Pack mod

The Punk Pride Stuff Pack mod brings a unique and edgy twist to celebrating pride in The Sims 4. Created by a team of punk and alternative simmers, this custom-made pack includes new objects, accessories, clothing, and makeup that are perfect for accompanying the items from the Goth Galore Kit. Each item, meticulously crafted by talented creators, is designed to infuse Sims' closets with an alternative style. There are up to twenty different flag designs for items like rainbow-studded jackets and graphic tees.

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What sets the Punk Pride Stuff Packmod apart is not just its stylish content but also its community spirit. This mod is available for free, with the creators encouraging donations to LGBTQ+ organizations and fundraisers instead of a download fee. While upgrading Sims' wardrobes and homes with pride-themed items, this mod supports important causes, making it a meaningful addition to the game.

7 Coming Out Mod

Express Your True Self, One Step At A Time

A Sim using new interactions to come out to her friend with the Coming Out Mod

The Coming Outmod adds a deeply impactful and realistic feature to The Sims 4, allowing Sims to emerge from their hiding and embrace their confidence in themselves and their sexuality by "coming out" to their friends and family. This mod introduces new interactions such as Come Out As Gay, Come Out As Bi, and Come Out As Transgender. These emotional moments are captured by mood buffs for the Sim who is coming out and those who are reacting to the news.

After coming out, Sims can perform new interactions like Tell Coming Out Story. Others can Express Acceptance for LGBTQ+ Sims, which can result in happy, sad, or embarrassed moodlets, depending on the success of the interaction. The Coming Out mod brings a significant and emotional aspect of real-life experiences into the game, enhancing storytelling possibilities and adding depths to social dynamics.

8 Pride Mini Mod

Celebrate Love In Every Form

Sims at a pride event and a variety of new moodlets from the Pride Mini Mod

The Pride Mini Mod adds an array of exciting features that allow for a deeper exploration of LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences. This mod introduces four custom traits that can either be given to Sims in Create-A-Sim or earned through gameplay. Sims will gain access to a new interactions menu for asking questions about sexuality, discussing LGBTQ+ issues, spilling tea, talking about their sex life, and using iconic phrases like "Ooooh Ms. Thing!" and "It's Giving."

In addition to the new traits, the Pride Mini Mod also introduces a four-level career path as an LGBTQ+ Life Coach, where Sims can offer guidance, support, and assistance to those in the LGBTQ+ community. The mod also includes two new holiday traditions: Bar Hopping and LGBTQ+ Pride, which provide fun and celebratory ways for Sims to honor their identities and connect with others.

9 LGBT Mod

A Rainbow Of Realism

A Sim is pondering about their sexuality, which can be set using the LGBT Mod

The LGBT Mod brings a comprehensive and immersive experience to The Sims 4, adding a multitude of LGBTQ+ gameplay traits, interactions, and buffs. Equip some of the fourteen new traits, such as Bisexual, Demisexual, Non-Binary, or Questioning for diverse and nuanced storytelling.

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New interactions include "Ask About Sexuality/Identity," "Encourage to Come Out," and "Discuss Current LGBT Issues." Plan and attend new events like the LGBT Meetup, Protest, or Drag Show, or utilize the calendar to create pride events. The new Pride Spirit tradition is a great way to explore the new interactions from this mod. Additionally, the new LGBT Activist aspiration is perfect for LGBT rights advocates.

10 LGBTQIA+ / Gender & Orientation Overhaul Mod

Every Sim, Every Story

The extra settings that come from the LGBTQIA+ Gender And Orientation Overhaul Mod

Lumpinou's LGBTQIA+ / Gender & Orientation Overhaul Mod is the ultimate tool for customizing and enhancing LGBTQ+ representation in The Sims 4. This highly customizable mod allows players to assign a Sim's identity and orientation, opening the door to new gender affirmation and transition features. Sims can undergo medical or non-medical gender-affirming surgeries to change their bodies, voice, or walk style to align their outward appearance with their desired gender.

This mod allows players full control to define Sims' romantic and sexual preferences and add attributes, such as "Discreetly Out" or "Refuses Kisses, Embraces, and Such." For a more organic experience, however, players can use the self-discovery mode, where Sims develop crushes and learn about their sexuality over time, with options to "Ponder Orientation" and "Ponder Gender." This mod also includes the new LGBTQIA+ Hangout lot trait, creating community hotspots with special nights like Aro/Ace Night, WLW Meetup, and MLM Meetup.

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The Sims 4

Platform(s)
PS4 , Xbox One , PC
Released
September 2, 2014
Developer(s)
Maxis
Genre(s)
Simulation