Google Removed Pride Month and Other Diversity Holidays From Its Calendar App
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If you're looking to schedule something during LGBTQ+ Pride Month on Google's Calendar App, that month is now known simply as June.
Several identity-based holidays have been removed from the app's public calendar, including Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month, according to a report in The Verge.
The outlet learned about the change after alarmed users posted on Google's official support page to ask why the update had been made and whether these awareness days and observances would return.
One post called the move 'shameful.' Another person added in the replies, 'These bootlickers have immediately shown us who they are.' In another thread on the same topic, one person pointed out the irony that Holocaust Remembrance Day is missing given that Google just published a blog post marking its dedication to preserving history related to the Holocaust.
In a statement to The Verge, Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld said that Google started making the change in 2024 because it wasn't 'sustainable.'
'For over a decade we've worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances in Google Calendar,' the statement reads. 'Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn't scalable or sustainable. So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.'
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Though Google said that it changed its Calendar app in 2024, the move is part of a trend that has seen the tech giant make choices that seem to align with the conservative right's current anti-DEI agenda. Google, a federal contractor, was one of several companies that dropped its diversity initiatives following the president's DEI-killing executive order. It also capitulated to Trump's demands that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed the Gulf of America, updating the name on Google Maps.
Google's changes seem to align with a larger trend of tech companies cozying up to Trump much more in his second term. Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg has embraced Trump and has chosen to deprioritize diversity and eliminate fact-checking, a move widely seen as a victory for the president.
Them has reached out to Google for comment.
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