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Google’s online and mobile calendars are no longer including references to Black History Month, Women’s History Month and LGBTQ+ holidays, among other events.
The Guardian reports that the world’s biggest search engine previously marked the beginning of Black History Month in February and Pride Month in June. However, the events do not appear for 2025.
A Google spokesperson, Madison Cushman Veld, provided the Guardian with a statement that said the listed holidays were not “sustainable” for their model.
“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 mid2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.”
Google also announced in late January that users in the US would see the name of the Gulf of Mexico changed to the “Gulf of America” and that the company would start using the name “Mount of McKinley” for the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali after executive orders from Trump signed during his first day in office.
Following the changes, users who wish to track events such as Pride Month, Black History Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Month must now manually add them to their calendars.
