Google Calendar has quietly removed automatic listings for diversity-related holidays like Pride Month and Black History Month in 2025—the latest move in the company’s shift away from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
The details: Google’s popular web and mobile calendar product used to carry a long list of holidays—that were pinned to users’ calendars without their consent. However, users noticed the 2025 calendar lists only public holidays and national observances.
- A Google spokesman said: “[M]aintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.”
In & Out: Indigenous People’s Day, PRIDE Month, Women’s History Month, and Black History Month were removed. Instead, the calendar now focuses on days like Presidents Day and Valentine’s Day.
Zoom out: Following President Donald Trump’s re-election, Google has made several high-profile moves away from DEI, such as:
- Eliminating its DEI hiring goals
- Changing the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘Gulf of America’
What the left is saying: I noticed that The Verge, who originally broke this story, cites a user who said Google did this to “capitulate to fascism.” However, the user they cite only created their Google account 10 days ago, which suggests she doesn’t even use the product herself.
Real talk: There is a time and place to recognize cultural holidays. It should not be controversial that Google no longer forces them into your daily planner—right between your dentist appointment and your yoga class.